Title: [Plugin: WP Minify] FEATURE REQUEST – Keep Cache File Names the Same cuz Bots Hate changes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Minify] FEATURE REQUEST – Keep Cache File Names the Same cuz Bots Hate changes

 *  [Kimberly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellogg9/)
 * (@kellogg9)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-minify-feature-request-keep-cache-file-names-the-same-cuz-bots-hate-changes/)
 * I keep getting errors from google bot saying the wp-minify js and css files dont
   exist. Its because this plugin constantly keeps changing their names when it 
   goes about refreshing the content (or i modify the content). Because of that 
   i could imagine search engine bots would penalize for the constant problems occuring
   on the site (dead js/css files).
 * So i think you should have an option to keep file names the same (and allow the
   user to provide the names ideally). So when you refresh and rebuild there is 
   always the same file name there.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-minify/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-minify/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Kimberly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellogg9/)
 * (@kellogg9)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-minify-feature-request-keep-cache-file-names-the-same-cuz-bots-hate-changes/#post-2867665)
 * Decided to update this plugin myself by writing a new function to handle my about
   feature request. It works very well. It doesnt touch any of the functions but
   just adds a new one that simply makes the file names more consistent. So if the
   files to be combined are the same then the md5 that is used for the final name
   wont change (i sort the files “names” before applying the md5 function). It also
   doesnt use last modified date of a file when calculating the md5, which this 
   plugin was doing (causing constantly changing names) since that will modify the
   final name too.
 * This helps tremendously since it now resolves many search engine spiders not 
   finding missing css and js files like before which should help in seo ranking.
 * It should be noted though that the file names will change if the # of files it
   uses changes. Other than that the final name used is now static. In
 *  [joel_birch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joel_birch/)
 * (@joel_birch)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-minify-feature-request-keep-cache-file-names-the-same-cuz-bots-hate-changes/#post-2867766)
 * Sounds interesting, but I assume the name change thing is for cache-busting, 
   so that browsers download updated CSS and JS files.
 * What do you think about simply adding the CSS and JS files to a robots.txt file,
   telling Google not to index them?
 * Disallow: /*.js$
    Disallow: /*.css$
 *  Thread Starter [Kimberly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellogg9/)
 * (@kellogg9)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-minify-feature-request-keep-cache-file-names-the-same-cuz-bots-hate-changes/#post-2867768)
 * I was thinking the same thing (adding to robot.txt) but soon after i read (and
   viewed a clip) from Google that they highly prefer you NOT prevent their bots
   from looking at js and css files because they use them to verify that no spam
   is on a site. The person was saying by having it disallowed it makes their bots
   suspicious and could hurt ranking.
 *  [joel_birch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joel_birch/)
 * (@joel_birch)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-minify-feature-request-keep-cache-file-names-the-same-cuz-bots-hate-changes/#post-2867769)
 * Good point!

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