How to Add Expire Headers in WordPress and Enable Leverage Browser Caching

Issue
Pagespeed is complaining about Leverage browser caching.

Environment
WordPress Hosting.
Websites running on Apache web server.
All shared hosting accounts.

Solution
Add the following content to your .htaccess File.

## EXPIRES HEADER 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 image/svg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/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>
## EXPIRES HEADER CACHING ##
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