What I do is use the links found in my posts under the page speed topic, and just manually minify the main style.css file, and main .js file.
E.g., for CSS:
cssminifier.com
for JS:
http://gpbmike.github.io/refresh-sf/
basically paste the main style.css file into the minifier, then copy and paste the minified version back into the styles file and then upload/over-write main one on the server. Takes 2 minutes. Done.
If you read the other sticky on speed by “Steven”, he has been using a minify plugin that seems to work.
In my case mod_pagespeed minifies my HTML, so don’t have to deal with that. I then use cssminifier to optimize the main css file.
Since I have to do couple of hacks to my functions.php file, and switch on the author name on posts, home page modules, and swap out the field name for view counter to our existing field with EVERY update, it’s not much more work to do the CSS and JS minify on main couple of files each time as well. No plugins needed 🙂
And, another option – if you use GTMetrix to test your site … they can actually spit out “optimized” versions of stuff for you, which is cool.
Just as an anecdote on minification:
minifying the main style.css file will take the size from 286kb to 204kb, as savings of about 80kb, which is actually quite a bit.
@mariosem
What I do is for “older” post, I created a category called “editor’s picks” … and then any old story I want to be featured on the front page (and/or sidebar), you can control which items from “the past” would show up by enabling a content block just for “Editor’s Picks”. This is the most common solution for this.
You should check to see if you have any ad modules running which resize images to fit, or if you’re using a sidebar element not part of theme (like a plugin, etc.), which is resizing images like a “related posts” plugin or similar.
If images are being resized from the generated thumbnail via CSS, it often means the next smaller size is missing (be sure to regenerate thumbnails for your old posts, if you have not already).
Obviously it would help to include the link to the GTMetrix report, or to your page where the error is happening for folks to look at.
Also note with GTMetrix it will often show you the names of the files being resized, so you can look at your source code and the page online to debug where that is happening based on file name, and then see if something is off from there.
See how to with WordPress docs; the login form is not part of the theme, but can be modified through CSS and the functions.php file where most things are modified without a plugin; see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Login_Form
Change the Login Logo
To change the WordPress logo to your own, you will need to change the CSS styles associated with this heading:
<h1>Your Site Name</h1>
WordPress uses CSS to display a background image — the WordPress logo — in the link (<a>)inside the heading tag (<h1>). You can use the login_enqueue_scripts hook to insert CSS into the head of the login page so your logo loads instead.
To use the code below, replace the file named site-login-logo.png with the file-name of your logo, and store your logo with your active Theme files in a directory named /images:
function my_login_logo() { ?>
<style type="text/css">
body.login div#login h1 a {
background-image: url(<?php echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri(); ?>/images/site-login-logo.png);
padding-bottom: 30px;
}
</style>
<?php }
add_action( 'login_enqueue_scripts', 'my_login_logo' );
The size of your logo should be no bigger than 80 x 80 pixels (though even this can change with custom CSS). Adjust the above padding-bottom value to the spacing you want between your logo and the login form.
