Autoptimize and Contact Form 7 Conflicts

Autoptimize is a great plugin for WordPress that combines scripts and code to reduce HTTP look ups. This can speed websites up considerably, improving both visitor experience and how Google, Yahoo, etc rank the site. Using Autoptimize and Contact Form 7 on the same WordPress install however can stop a visitor being able to send a message through the site with a “Failed to Send Your Message” message displayed when hitting the submit button.

Similar to how Recaptcha can interfere with Contact Form 7 submissions, Autoptimize and Contact Form 7 can also cause conflicts. This is due to one of the pieces of code the plugin is able to reduce – Javascript.

Fixing Autoptimize and Contact Form 7 Errors

When I encountered Autoptimize and Contact Form 7 conflicts on my own site I did a lot of searching and found a solution of adding the selected code to an exclude list…

Unfortunately this did not work for me so I needed to find another solution. This solution was to exclude the contact page from being optimised… Thankfully it’s fairly straightforward and includes adding a piece of code to the functions.php file – a really simple and good way to do this is using a plugin called Code Snippets…

// Disable autoptimize on pages with the word "test" in the URL 	 	 

add_filter('autoptimize_filter_noptimize','my_ao_noptimize',10,0); 	 	 

function my_ao_noptimize() { 	 	 

if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'test')!==false) { 	 	 

return true; 	 	 

} else { 	 	 

return false; 	 	 

} 

}