Autoptimize 2.9 release: Tuesday 27th?

Quick public service announcement; Autoptimize 2.9 is almost ready to be released but given the planned release of WordPress 5.8 (July 20th) and the risk of support requests mixing up WordPress core update related issues with the Autoptimize update related issues, Autoptimize 2.9 will probably be released one week after WordPress 5.8, so on or around Tuesday 27th.
If you’re eager to use 2.9 (with better image optimization, improved JS optimization and per page/ post Autoptimize settings) you can off course download the beta here immediately.

Autoptimize 2.6 released

I just released AO26, which comes with a bunch of new features, improvements and bugfixes.
  • New: Autoptimize can be configured at network level or at individual site-level when on multisite.
  • Extra: new option to specify what resources need to be preloaded.
  • Extra: add display=swap to Autoptimized (CSS-based) Google Fonts.
  • Images: support for lazyloading of background-images when set in the inline style attribute of a div.
  • Images: updated to lazysizes 5.2.
  • CSS/ JS: no longer add type attributes to Autoptimized resources.
  • Improvement: cache clearing now also integrates with Kinsta, WP-Optimize & Nginx helper.
  • Added “Critical CSS” tab to highlight the criticalcss.com integration, which will be fully included in Autoptimize 2.7.
  • Batch of misc. smaller improvements & fixes, more info in the GitHub commit log.

The release has been tested extensively (automated unit testing, manual testing on several of my own sites and testing by users of the beta-version on Github), but as with all software it is very unlikely to be bug-free. Feel free to post any issue with the update here or to create a separate topic in this forum.
Happy holidays to all!
frank

Autoptimize 2.3.3 and beyond

Autoptimize 2.3.3 was just released. It is a minor release with the following minor improvements & fixes:

  • improvement: updated to latest version of Filamentgroup’s loadCSS
  • improvement: by default exclude wp-content/cache and wp-content/uploads from CSS optimization (Divi, Avada & possibly others store page-specific CSS there)
  • bugfix: stop double try/catch-blocks
  • misc. bugfixes (see GitHub commit log)

This is (supposed to be) the last minor release of the 2.3 branch, 2.4 is a major change with some big under-the-hood and functional changes. That new version has been in the works for some months already and if you’re up for it you can install by simply downloading this zip-file from GitHub. The GitHub version will also auto-update thanks to the great Plugin Update Checker library.