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Speculative Loading Admin
Adds speculative loading to the WP Admin for prerendering links with moderate eagerness in the Admin Bar and Admin Menu. Experimental.
by Weston Ruter · github.com/westonruter/speculative-loading-admin · website
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Install
The author publishes release zips, so WP-CLI can install straight from GitHub:
wp plugin install https://github.com/westonruter/speculative-loading-admin/releases/download/0.1.0/speculative-loading-admin.zipDeclares an update source (https://github.com/westonruter/speculative-loading-admin), so updates arrive through the plugin's own updater.
From the readme
Speculative Loading Admin
Adds speculative loading to the WP Admin for prerendering links with moderate eagerness in the Admin Bar and Admin Menu. Experimental.
Description
This experimental plugin enables speculative loading in the WordPress Admin. For the frontend, this feature was introduced in WordPress 6.8. However, speculative loading is not enabled when a user is logged in to WordPress, and so naturally it is not enabled in the WP Admin. Since authenticated pages are usually not cached, having speculative loading enabled for logged-in users can add a lot of strain on the server. However, if your server can handle the additional load, prerendering links allows for instant page navigations, which greatly improves the user experience. The Speculative Loading plugin also has a pending change to opt in logged-in users (or just administrators) to speculative loading on the frontend.
The speculation rules used in this plugin will prerender links with moderate eagerness. The rules specifically exclude post-new.php since every hit to that URL generates a
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Releases
| Tag | Published | Asset | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.0 | Jul 25, 2025 | speculative-loading-admin.zip | 9 |