WordPress .htaccess configuration file. Allows Forced SSL, Hide wp-config.php, Header ETags, GZIP Compression and Expires Caching.

.htaccess

## BEGIN Force SSL ##
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R=301,L]
## END Force SSL ##

## BEGIN WordPress ##
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
## END WordPress ##

## BEGIN Hide WordPress Config File ##
<files wp-config.php>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>
## END Hide WordPress Config File ##

## START Redirects ##
## Redirect 301 /old-page /new-page
## END Redirects ##

## BEGIN Disable ETags ##
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)(\.gz)?$">
Header set Expires "Sun, 01 Jan 2016 20:00:00 GMT"
Header unset ETag
FileETag None
</FilesMatch>
## END Disable ETags ##

## BEGIN GZIP Compression ##
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>    
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
    </IfModule>
 
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/json
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xsd
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xsl
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/x-js
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/richtext 
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/svg+xml 
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
 
    AddType x-font/otf .otf
    AddType x-font/ttf .ttf
    AddType x-font/eot .eot
    AddType x-font/woff .woff
    AddType image/x-icon .ico
    AddType image/png .png
 
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
    BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
 
    <IfModule mod_mime.c>
        # DEFLATE by extension
        AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css htm html xml
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>
## END GZIP Compression ##

## BEGIN Expires Caching ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access 7 days"
</IfModule>
## END Expires Caching ##