Minify HTML

Changelog

v2.1.13 – 03/18/2026

  • Resolve issue unique to an over-zealous “bug” bounty with too much time on their hands.

v2.1.12 – 01/15/2025

  • Fixed deprecated warnings with PHP 8.1.0+.

v2.1.11 – 12/06/2024

  • Resolve issue unique to an over-zealous “bug” bounty with too much time on their hands.

v2.1.10 – 11/27/2024

  • Resolve issue with block editor converting to classic block and possible edge-case issues with preg_replace() function.

v2.1.9 – 9/20/2023

  • Resolve line break issues with inline javascript comments.

v2.1.8 – 2/25/2023

  • Nonce added to prevent CSRF vulnerability.

v2.1.7 – 2/25/2023

  • Nonce check removed, doesn’t seem to work.

v2.1.6 – 2/25/2023

  • Last try at nonce, doesn’t seem to work sometimes.

v2.1.5 – 2/25/2023

  • Now using a unique to plugin value for nonce for better security.

v2.1.4 – 2/25/2023

  • After some back and forth, I believe this implements CSRF protection correctly.

v2.1.3 – 2/25/2023

  • Resolved form POST issue.

v2.1.2 – 2/25/2023

  • Nonce verification for CSRF protection.

v2.1.1 – 2/24/2023

  • Added nonce for CSRF protection, verified working with WordPress v6.2

v2.02 – 1/3/2022

  • Added link to dummy site for testing, verified working with WordPress v5.8.2

v2.00 – 2/1/2021

  • Updated contact email address, verified working with WordPress v5.6

v1.99 – 05/21/2018

  • Compatiblity with WordPress thru 4.9.6
  • Text changes

v1.98 – 03/15/2017

  • Forces the multi-byte UTF-8 encoding option to default to OFF
  • Added support for WP-CLI (command line interface for WordPress) http://wp-cli.org/.

v1.97 – 03/06/2017

  • Added option to support multi-byte UTF-8 encoding if your foreign language website introduces odd characters.

v1.96 – 03/02/2017

  • Removed multi-byte non-English encoded content support because it caused problems with many English sites. Will make this an option instead in a future release.

v1.95 – 03/02/2017

  • Correctly deals with multi-byte UTF-8 encoded content (typically non-English language websites).

v1.94 – 01/03/2017

  • Added option to not minify JavaScript.

v1.93 – 12/28/2016

  • Removed extra blank lines after v1.92 modification.

v1.92 – 12/27/2016

  • Corrected rare problem with inline JavaScript line comments.

v1.91 – 6/29/2016

  • Fixed a problem with errors in the log and the “Remove schemes” switch not quite working correctly.

v1.9 – 5/10/2016

  • Broke up option to remove relative schemes and domains into two options.
  • Cleaned up settings page, gives option suggestions.

v1.8 – 5/10/2016

  • New Minify HTML Settings menu item in the admin console.
  • Option to deactivate Minify HTML without
  • Option to remove HTML, JavaScript and CSS comments.
  • Option to remove XHTML closing tags from HTML5 void elements.
  • Option to remove relative schemes and domains from links.

v1.7 – 4/21/2016

  • Now removes CSS and JavaScript comments.
  • Fixed issue with minification of internal CSS media queries.
  • Fixed issue with Google AMP reporting problems with the style boilerplate.
  • No longer minifies XML files (which Minify HTML was never designed to do).

v1.6 – 3/1/2016

  • Removes HTML comments to further reduce file size (doesn’t remove MSIE conditional comments).

v1.5 – 2/23/2016

  • No longer minifies the admin dashboard.
  • Some additional JavaScript minification.

v1.4 – 2/23/2016

  • Fixed bug that could cause ‘M1N1FY-ST4RT’ to output to website.

v1.3 – 2/22/2016

  • Added compatibility for PHP 7.0.0

v1.2 – 2/22/2016

  • Compatible with older versions of PHP.
  • More effective at cleaning up tabs, JavaScript, and internal CSS.
  • Cleaned up source code and made a few performance tweaks.

v1.1 – 2/19/2016

  • Also minifies internal CSS.

v1.0 – 2/18/2016

  • Initial release.

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Author
Tim Eckel
Version:
2.1.13
Last Updated
March 18, 2026
Active Installs
10000
Requires
WordPress 3.6.0
Tested Up To
WordPress 6.9.4
Requires PHP
5.2.4

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