: Is there a Magento extension for combining/compressing javascript and css? I thought Magento came with this feature out of the box but it doesn't appear to be working at all. I'm not sure if

@Bryan171

May the extention help you
www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/fooman-speedster.html

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@Berumen354

So far the Magento module method of doing this is using Fooman Speedster. It merges and minifies your Javascript and CSS fils, typically merging everything into two JS files and two CSS files. I've had issues using Magento's built-in JS/CSS merge so I abandoned it for the module. The developer keeps it up to date and it works with versions 1.2 though 1.6. Free.
www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/fooman-speedster.html
It requires mod_rewrite to be enabled and .htaccess support. Installation of Yoast's Canonical Urls extension or the Mxperts jQuery Base extension will break the extension.

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@Steve110

The quickest thing I can think of is Google's mod_pagespeed for Apache. I've used it on my Magento store and didn't have any issues with the combination of the JS and CSS, though did run into some issues with the caching and what have you, but you can turn those off pretty easily.

With mod_pagespeed, you want to use these filters in you pagespeed.conf:

# Combine CSS
ModPagespeedEnableFilters combine_css
# Minify Javascript
ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_javascript


Also, check out the .htaccess file in Paul Irish's HTML5 Boilerplate. He outlines how to combine certain JS files. You don't want to combine all Javascript into one file, becaue there might be times when you want JS to run in a certain order.

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