Admin Tools

#27249 JCH optimize and Admin Tools

Posted in ‘Admin Tools for Joomla! 4 & 5’

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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 05 March 2017 15:16 CST

Friday, 03 March 2017 15:46 CST

bobpit

Hi

I was going to use JCH Optmize to combine CSS files and then Java files. And then I stumbled upon this documentation: https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/admin-tools/ch02s12.html

It talks about a feature "Combine JavaScript files". Is ths supposed to be inside the .htaccess maker? I am searching for the string "Combine" and I do not find anything.

Friday, 03 March 2017 16:15 CST

bobpit

I am reading this ticket: https://www.akeebabackup.com/support/admin-tools/11047-problem-combining-css-files.html

It seems that this feature is in "SEO and Link Tools". But when I go there, I cannot find it.

Have you removed it?

Sunday, 05 March 2017 15:16 CST

nicholas

That was for Admin Tools 2.0 released in 2010. That feature was removed around 2012.

Simply put, combining and minifying files is something that needs to be tested on a page by page basis. People are not willing to do this. Also, that feature may have made sense in Joomla! 1.5 through 1.7 but with 2.5 and especially 3.x it made less sense. Any template worth its salt uses LESS, SCSS or something similar to produce a single CSS file instead of using 15-30 different files. Also, since Joomla! 3.1 you can override JS and CSS files and even prevent files from loading, making it possible to do combination and minification in the One, True Way: by hand. Moreover, this feature didn't really make sense in a security product. Therefore this feature was removed and it won't come back.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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