Title: Asynchronous Javascript Author: Paris Holley Published: Onwa-asaa 18, 2013 Last modified: Onwa-ise 2, 2013 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/asynchronous-javascript/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=654920) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/asynchronous-javascript_e3541a.svg) # Asynchronous Javascript By [Paris Holley](https://profiles.wordpress.org/parisholley/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/asynchronous-javascript.zip) * [Details](https://ibo.wordpress.org/plugins/asynchronous-javascript/#description) * [Reviews](https://ibo.wordpress.org/plugins/asynchronous-javascript/#reviews) * [Installation](https://ibo.wordpress.org/plugins/asynchronous-javascript/#installation) * [Development](https://ibo.wordpress.org/plugins/asynchronous-javascript/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/asynchronous-javascript/) ## Description This plugin is meant to be a drop-in to your wordpress installation with no additional configuration. The goals/features of this plugin are: * Load javascript files in an asynchronous manner to improve time to DomReady/OnLoad * Use existing wordpress APIs for backwards compatability and prevent coupling to this plugin * Leverage dependency model wordpress provides for assets to improve loading performance Please submit bugs or contributions to the github location and not here on wordpress’ system: https://github.com/parisholley/wordpress-asynchronous-javascript/ SEO: async js, asynchronous js, async javascript ### Incompatibility This plugin will not work out the box with the following plugins (unless they are modified to support asynchronous loading). * Jetpack by WordPress.com (social plugin) * WP Most Popular ## Installation 1. Upload `asynchronous-javascript` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress ## FAQ Is there any potential problems with other plugins? As long as those plugins are using the built-in wordpress script queuing and not attempting to output scripts manually (such as invoking wp_print_scripts()), you should have no problems. If you find plugins that don’t work properly (or without modifications), let me know and I will maintain an incompatibility list. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Asynchronous Javascript” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Paris Holley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/parisholley/) [Translate “Asynchronous Javascript” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/asynchronous-javascript) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/asynchronous-javascript/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/asynchronous-javascript/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/asynchronous-javascript/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/asynchronous-javascript/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.3.5 * Ability to mark headjs as always in header (thanks DeanStr) #### 1.3.4 * Fixed notices * Added filter to alter src location #### 1.3.3 * Fixed bug introduced in last version #### 1.3.2 * Ability to specify your own head.js file (thanks to DeanStr) #### 1.3.1 * Removed PHP warning #### 1.3.0 * Ability to exclude files by filename or queue id from being loaded asynchronously #### 1.2.1 * Fixed static reference for PHP < 5.2.3 #### 1.2.0 * WordPress already orders dependencies, updated as head.js doesn’t support multiple dependency resolution #### 1.1.2 * Starting incompatibility list #### 1.1.1 * Updated readme and versioning #### 1.1 * Removed `wp_enqueue_async_script()`, should be able to use normal wordpress method` wp_enqueue_script()` * Updated normal enqueue processing to use dependencies, will need to improve upon this in future. #### 1.0 * Initial release, seems to work. 🙂 ## Meta * Version **1.3.5** * Last updated **12 years ago** * Active installations **200+** * WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.5.2** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/asynchronous-javascript/) * Tags * [async](https://ibo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/async/)[asynchronous](https://ibo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/asynchronous/) [headjs](https://ibo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/headjs/)[javascript](https://ibo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/javascript/) [JS](https://ibo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/js/) * [Advanced View](https://ibo.wordpress.org/plugins/asynchronous-javascript/advanced/) ## Ratings 3.7 out of 5 stars. * [ 5 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/asynchronous-javascript/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 1 4-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/asynchronous-javascript/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/asynchronous-javascript/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 1 2-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/asynchronous-javascript/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 2 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/asynchronous-javascript/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/asynchronous-javascript/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/asynchronous-javascript/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Paris Holley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/parisholley/) ## Support Got something to say? 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