WordPress 5.9 comes with a change I had not noticed before; it is adding inline CSS with random-ish names, which when “also aggregate inline CSS” is active makes the AO cache grow incredibly fast.
As a workaround you can add .wp-container- to the CSS optimization exclusions. I have just pushed out Autoptimize 2.9.5.1 which automatically excludes inline CSS with that string.
After waiting for 2 years on Divi to fix the bug, Autoptimize as from the next release will not allow it to incorrectly clear the AO cache any more.
A regularly reported issue for Autoptimize + Elementor users is that JavaScript optimization breaks the “Edit with Elementor” button in the front-end admin bar. The easiest workaround is to disable the “also optimize for logged in administrators/ editors” option, but below code snippet is more surgical as it will only disable JS optimization, leaving e.g. CSS & Image, which do not impact “Edit with Elementor”, active;
if ( defined( 'ELEMENTOR_VERSION' ) && is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) {
add_filter( 'autoptimize_filter_js_noptimize', '__return_true' );
}
When in doubt, you can use the code snippets plugin to safely add this.
