Title: [Plugin: Better WordPress Minify] use strict
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Better WordPress Minify] use strict

 *  [Workshopshed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/workshopshed/)
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 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-better-wordpress-minify-use-strict/)
 * Just reading an article on writing forward compatible websites and alerts to 
   a potential problem you might have if you are using a tool like bwp-minify.
 * **Don’t concatenate scripts you don’t control**
 * The “use strict;” directive in ECMAScript, when used on the file level, applies
   to everything in the file. So appending a script that depends on non-strict-mode
   behavior to a strict-mode script will cause things to break.
 * [https://developer.mozilla.org/Writing_Forward_Compatible_Websites](https://developer.mozilla.org/Writing_Forward_Compatible_Websites)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bwp-minify/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bwp-minify/)

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