How do setup gzip & leverage browser caching properly on Wordpress

The simplest solution is probably to use the W3 Total Cache plugin: <br> <br>https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/ <br> <br>In the admin panel, go to Plugins -> Add New and search for “w3 cache” and click the install link. Now go to Plugins -> Installed Plugins and click the “activate” link. You should now see a new “Performance” menu in the sidebar of the admin panel. gzip compression should now be enabled. To verify that, go to Performance --> Browser Cache and make sure “Enable HTTP (gzip) compression” is checked. It should look like: <br> <br>http://i.imgur.com/Ramgb1Y.png <br> <br>

Thanks Andrew! I’ll try…

Hi again, w3 is so complex for me, it requires too much thing on server side and i am far from there… i just searched and i found .htaccess modification. <br> <br>my .htaccess file like this, but browser caching doesn’t work. <br>any advice? <br>thanks a lot <br>tolga <br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br># BEGIN WordPress <br><ifmodule mod_rewrite.c=“”> <br>RewriteEngine On <br>RewriteBase / <br>RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] <br>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f <br>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d <br>RewriteRule . /index.php [L] <br></ifmodule> <br> <br>##EXPIRES CACHING## <br><ifmodule mod_expires.c=“”> <br># Enable expirations <br>ExpiresActive On <br># Default directive <br>ExpiresDefault “access plus 1 month” <br># My favicon <br>ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access plus 1 year” <br># Images <br>ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 1 month” <br>ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 1 month” <br>ExpiresByType image/jpg “access plus 1 month” <br>ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 1 month” <br># CSS <br>ExpiresByType text/css “access 1 month” <br># Javascript <br>ExpiresByType application/javascript “access 1 month” <br></ifmodule> <br> <br><ifmodule mod_mime.c=“”> <br>AddType application/x-javascript .js <br>AddType text/css .css <br></ifmodule> <br> <br><ifmodule mod_deflate.c=“”> <br>SetOutputFilter DEFLATE <br><ifmodule mod_setenvif.c=“”> <br>SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:rar|zip)$ no-gzip dont-vary <br>SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpg|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary <br>SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:avi|mov|mp4)$ no-gzip dont-vary <br>SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .mp3$ no-gzip dont-vary <br></ifmodule> <br><ifmodule mod_headers.c=“”> <br>Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary <br></ifmodule> <br></ifmodule> <br> <br># END WordPress