How to Fix Leverage Browser Caching - WordPress Solutions
Problem: You are worried about site speed and you want to optimize wordpress load time by browser cache.
If you need to know how to enable browser caching in WordPress there are number of methods you can use. First, what does it mean and why is it a good idea to leverage your browser's caching? In order to save loading time for your web pages, static elements can be stored in the user's browser for re-use. You can specify how long web browsers should keep images, CSS and JS stored locally.
Leverage browser caching - js and css files can be larger than many well optimized images and may be called by every page of your site - you can set a long expiry time for these - even as much a a year. They may even be stored externally.
Other external files may be fonts or images stored on a CDN
The simplest way to implement this is to use..
Browser Caching WordPress Plugins
Here are two popular caching plugins
Leverage browser caching wordpress W3 total cache
Pros and Cons and settings can be found at Onlinemediamasters in their tutorial
Leverage browser caching Wp super cache
Pros and Cons and how to set it up can be found at wpbeginner's guide.
Some wordpress.ord plugins
A fairly new plugin: Leverage Browser Caching - Free
Older not recently updated - Browser Caching with .htaccess
Other Methods
Leverage browser caching htaccess
This can be done yourself if you are comfortable using code
WordPress htaccess code can be found in some of the links below
Useful links to pages that discuss in detail:
Kinsta has an in depth tutorial 2017
Winninwp - article 2017
Siteground - Knowledge base has the code
Technumero - article with or without a plugin and which plugin to use
Yoast - Article on how to do it Yourself
There is also a complete file example at Crunchify - in their article
If you want to be a leverage browser caching ninja, read it up and use one of these solutions.