Enable gzip Compression in Wordpress 2.5
April 4th, 2008I only noticed today that the gzip compression option was removed from Wordpress 2.5. Apparently this was done as it’s easy to acheive the same thing using mod_deflate on Apache.
The problem is that my host uses Apache 1.3 and also doesn’t have mod_gzip installed so I had no choice but to do this in PHP.
Fortunately I came across this plugin that re-enables gzipping of pages saving me bandwidth and my visitors downloading time.