Compression via PHP documented and in URL but not used anymore

[zodiac1978]

It looks like these three constants are not used anymore:

define( ‘COMPRESS_CSS’, true );
define( ‘COMPRESS_SCRIPTS’, true );
define( ‘ENFORCE_GZIP’, true )

In #44815 the check for the "c" parameter (for compression) in load-scripts.php and load-styles.php was removed.

But it is still used in this file:
​https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/script-loader.php#L2199
and
​https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/script-loader.php#L2377

And documented at the beginning of the file:
​https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/script-loader.php#L8-L10

It looks like we can safely remove this or is there a reason to keep it?

Remove legacy compression constants (COMPRESS_SCRIPTS, COMPRESS_CSS, ENFORCE_GZIP) and related code.

Trac ticket: #63017

[zodiac1978]

Hi @sainathpoojary

thanks for the patch! It looks great.

I think we could modify some more of the inline docs:

* Several constants are used to manage the loading, concatenating and compression of scripts and CSS:

could maybe changed to something like:

* These constants are used to manage the loading and concatenating of scripts and CSS:

And

 * The globals $concatenate_scripts, $compress_scripts and $compress_css can be set by plugins
 * to temporarily override the above settings. Also a compression test is run once and the result is saved

could maybe changed to:

 * The global $concatenate_scripts can be set by plugins to temporarily override the above 
 * setting.

[zodiac1978]

#44815 was from milestone 4.9.9, but in the version dropdown 4.9.9 is missing, so I chose 5.0 which was the first major version with this change.

[sainathpoojary]

Hey @zodiac1978,

I’ve updated the documentation based on your suggestion. Whenever you have a moment, I’d appreciate it if you could take a look. Thank you!