Gelezen: Hotel Grand Europa

Onder de indruk van Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer‘s columns over Corona in Genua las ik tijdens onze vakantie zijn magistrale “Grand Hotel Europa” over liefde, een oud hotel in volle evolutie, het avontuurlijk (en gewelddadig) leven van Carravagio, het genie van Damien Hirsh en vooral over hoe Europa beetje bij beetje een pretpark voor toeristen wordt … Read more

We just joined the club!

Autoptimize just joined the “1+ million active installs”-club. Crazy! I’m very happy, thanks everyone for using, thanks for the support-questions & all the great feedback therein and especially thanks to the people who actively contributed and especially-especially to Emilio López (Turl) for creating Autoptimize and handing it over to me back in 2013 and to … Read more

How to fix render-blocking jquery.js in Autoptimize

Autoptimize by default excludes inline JS and jquery.js from optimization. Inline JS is excluded because it is a typical cache-buster (due to changing variables in it) and as inline JS often requires jQuery being available as a consequence that needs to be excluded as well. The result of this “safe default” however is that jquery.js … Read more

Hide-my-WordPress & Autoptimize compatibility glue

An “Autoptimize Critical CSS“-user saw some weirdness in how the site looked when optimized. The reason for this turned out to be not the critical CSS, but the fact that he used “Hide My WordPress Pro”, a plugin that changes well-known paths in WordPress URL’s to other paths (e.g. /wp-content/plugins -> /modules/ and /wp-content/themes -> … Read more

How to LYTE-n up your WooCommerce video’s

So you have a WooCommerce shop which uses YouTube video’s to showcase your products but those same video’s are slowing your site down as YouTube embeds typically do? WP YouTube Lyte can go a long way to fix that issue, replacing the “fat embedded YouTube player” with a LYTE alternative. LYTE will automatically detect and … Read more