Update 2021: no need for below “hack” anymore; you can configure Autoptimize on a per-page basis on the post/ page edit screen! See this blogpost on the metabox settings for some more info. So suppose you have one page/ post which for whatever reason you don’t want Autoptimize to act on? Simply add this in … Read more
I was struggling with an occasional loss of reported traffic by SlimStat, due to my pages being cached by WP Super Cache (which is not active for logged in users) but not having SlimStatParams & the slimstat JS-file in it. I tried changing different settings in Slimstat, but the problem still occurred. As I was … Read more
[UPDATE 29/03/2018: Autoptimize 2.4 can now be downloaded from https://github.com/futtta/autoptimize/archive/beta.zip and will automatically update so ensure all new functionality and fixes are applied] TL;DR Autoptimize 2.4 will be a major change. Tomaš Trkulja (aka zytzagoo) has cleaned up and modernized the code significantly, making it easier to read and maintain, switched to the latest and … Read more
So Gutenberg, the future of WordPress content editing, allows users to create, add and re-use blocks in posts and pages in a nice UI. These blocks are added in WordPress’ the_content inside HTML-comments to ensure backwards-compatibility. For WP YouTube Lyte I needed to extract information to be able to replace Gutenberg embedded YouTube with Lytes … Read more
In general i rarely bother looking into WordPress core code or what’s on the horizon. The last month or so however I came across 3 problems that were due to core. 1. Shortly after pushing Autoptimize 2.3.x out, a subset of users started complaining about a flood of “cachebuster”-requests bringing their site to a crawl. … Read more
So you can remove the author-pages with an author.php file in your (child) theme, but what if you don’t want to touch the theme you ask? Well, I just added this code snippet to two of the sites I manage to stop user-enumeration (which can be done on any WordPress site by going to /index.php?author=1): … Read more
So work on Autoptimize 2.2 is almost finished and I need your help testing this version before releasing (targeting May, but that depends on you!). The more people I have testing, the faster I might be able to push this thing out and there’s a lot to look forward to; New option: enable/ disable AO … Read more
If you encountered this bug but are not using Autoptimize, leave a comment below or contact me here. Your info can help understand if the regression has an impact outside of Autoptimize as well! Gotta love Sarah, but there’s a small bug in Vaughan’s (WordPress 4.7) that breaks (part of the CSS) when Autoptimized. If … Read more
Adel of Pixeldima contacted me to look into a problem with some of the styles not being applied after autoptimization on the forum-page in his beautiful OKAB-theme. I had seen similar problems before, but decided to dig in this time to understand the root cause. That root cause turned out to be 2 CSS-files, one … Read more
Autoptimize by default uses WordPress’ internal logic to determine if a URL should be HTTP or HTTPS. But in some cases WordPress may not be fully aware it is on HTTPS, or maybe you want part of your site HTTP and another part (cart & checkout?) in HTTPS. Protocol-relative URL’s to the rescue, except Autoptimize … Read more