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Remove Query Arg from Media URLs ?_=1

Description

Remove the query string ?=1 added by WordPress adds to media URLs in HTML5 audio and video mediaelement.js players. It will match any digit that follows the equals sign, e.g. ?=42 will be removed.

This plugin is ideal for the following reasons

  • Page Loading Performance: Improve page speed scores with services like PageSpeed, YSlow, Pingdoom and GTmetrix.
  • Caching: Links with query string parameters such as “?” followed by name=value pairs separated by ‘&’ in the URL are typically not cacheable
  • Statistics and Analytics: Prevent statistics and analytics services from including the query string in reporting.

Compatible Media Plugins

If this plugin works with your favorite media plugin, please contact me and I will add it to the list.

Installation

  1. Copy/Upload the entire remove-query-arg-from-media directory from the downloaded zip file into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the “Remove Query Arg from Media” plugin in the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Enjoy

FAQ

Why did you make the plugin?

To solve a simple problem, to remove the query string parameter from the media URLs.

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Contributors & Developers

“Remove Query Arg from Media URLs ?_=1” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Change log

0.1

  • Released on 1/7/2017
  • First version