Not able to change HTML settings

That’s weird Deepak, no idea what is happening there I’m afraid.

You could go under the hood (this can void your non-existing warranty, be sure to have a backup in case anything goes wrong), accessing /wp-admin/options.php and there look for autoptmize_html_keepcomments and type

on

in that field. scroll down and press “save changes” and your comments should now be OK.

hope this helps,
frank

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.. but I couldn’t find “autoptmize_html_keepcomments” on /wp-admin/options.php page.

Also, if I try to turn off HTML minification, I’m unable to do so too.

I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling the plugin and I’m not using any plugins like W3 cache etc that may conflict in caching.

But the problem is still there.

but I couldn’t find “autoptmize_html_keepcomments” on /wp-admin/options.php page.

my bad, should be “autoptimize_html_keepcomments” (autoptimize).

frank

There’s no html related setting…

https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/571409/0fc00b86c53d4f495d005689ed1c8fde

well … let’s see; try adding the following code using e.g. the code snippets plugin (or in your (child) theme’s functions.php if you must);

add_action('plugins_loaded','deepak_force_ao_options',10,0);
function deepak_force_ao_options() {
        update_option('autoptimize_html_keepcomments',true);
        }

frank

Sorry but this doesn’t work either…

well, the code is very much stock wordpress, nothing AO-specific except for the option name, so I’m afraid I can only conclude there’s a problem with your installation (wp+theme+plugins) really.

what you could do is switch to a standard theme & disable all plugins but AO. if that fixes the issue, re-enable your plugins (and theme) one by one until the problem re-appears. if the issue is not fixed with a standard theme & without plugins (but AO), i would suggest re-installing WP.

frank

what you could also do is update the code to show any wp-error if one is thrown, like this;

add_action('plugins_loaded','deepak_force_ao_options',10,0);
function deepak_force_ao_options() {
        update_option('autoptimize_html_keepcomments',false);
        $result = update_option('autoptimize_html_keepcomments',true);

        if ( is_wp_error( $result ) ) {
           $error_string = $result->get_error_message();
        } else if ( $result === false ) {
           $error_string = "update_option returned false";
        } else {
           $error_string = "no wp-error, not false, should work";
        }

        if (is_admin()) {
           echo '<div id="message" class="error"><p>' . $error_string . '</p></div>';
        }
}

that way we might learn something about what is going on after all (although I suspect not; based on the documentation update_option just returns “false” if the update did not succeed, not a wp_error object).

frank

Hi,

While this code is not generating any message, but the plugin is working fine now! And I’m able to keep HTML comments.

Thanks! ??

not sure how that’s possible, but glad it works ??

frank