Do you ❤️ the free and open web and do you want to ensure a non-profit can continue to play an important role? Do you use Firefox or use MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) to check up on JS or CSS or HTML syntax?
We do too and as from today Optimizing Matters will donate $20 monthly. If you use Autoptimize or Async JavaScript or WP YouTube Lyte then please, pretty please, consider donating at https://donate.mozilla.org too.
I got interviewed at WP Founders; https://wpfounders.com/wordpress-plugin/frank-goossens-autoptimize/
As of the soon-to-be-released Autoptimize 2.7.4, all occurrences of “blacklist” and “whitelist” in the code will be changed into “blocklist” and “allowlist”. There is no impact for users of Autoptimize, everything will work as before.
If however you are using Autoptimize’s API, there are two (to my knowledge rarely used) filters that are now deprecated and will be removed at a later stage. `autoptimize_filter_js_whitelist` and `autoptimize_filter_css_whitelist` still work in 2.7.4 but if you’re using them switch to `autoptimize_filter_js_allowlist` and `autoptimize_filter_css_allowlist` to avoid problems when they are removed in the release after 2.7.4.
Small post-publishing clarification dd. 22/07/2020: this post is just an announcement, I feel no urge to discuss the change and am not really interested in arguments pro or contra. Don’t fret over this change, fretting is useless, instead enjoy the summer, kiss your lover, read a good book, … :-)
So for those using AO who are seeing occasional 404’s on AO’d resources and (somewhat) into code; here’s a GitHub commit that might interest you;
https://github.com/futtta/autoptimize/commit/2e9d41d0d5bee9dd8069d86f3b1e269f799a5d50
(More later, gotta run now)
Although I very much doubt this will ever be able to put a major dent in Facebook’s quasi-monopoly, I cannot but be supportive of Jimmy Wales/ Wikimedia’s new social network. If you want to join and appear in my friends-list there go to https://wt.social/u/frank-goossens.
Fun fact; As per wordpress.org “popular plugins” ranking , Autoptimize is slowly but surely closing in on what used to be the go-to solution for Web Performance Optimization W3 Total Cache based on the “active installs” metric. Who would have thought? What a crazy ride …
Zwijg me (niet) van de laatste kutgroep uit Engelang! Crazy Squids feeding off houseplants (and cowbell);
