[Plugin: WP Smush.it] HTTP Error on image upload.

I’m with @rastarr on this one. I think a wp-kraken plugin has lots of mileage especially as it now has an api available and includes other tools like ico convertor (it would be great to convert your media library logo into a .ico file straight from the dashboard).

In my opinion Yahoo have missed a massive revenue stream with the smush.it service. They could of developed the plugin themselves and charged a fee for bulk usage over a certain amount of images. Very sad to see this useful web service so neglected.

I only came to understand this problem was happpening because of wp smush.it today, after several disappointments while trying to do my work. Thing is… CW-Optimizer requests a opt-png opt-etc. which seems to be some php anything and this is really not my beer. Anyone with a suggestion? It′s been impossible to work with having http errors every time I try loading an image after all the work is done and ready to post…

Hi all,

I just released version 1.6.0. While it doesn’t do anything about the Smush.it service itself, it does add some logic to detect when Smush.it is having issues and disables auto-smushing for a few hours. You can configure automatic smushing in Media > Settings and, as always, can manually or bulk smush images as you like.

I’ve had a few interesting exchanges with other developers about adding some other compression services (both on the server and remote). That’s the next step in taking the load of Yahoo!’s Smush.it.

Let me know in these boards how the new version works for you.

Cheers,
Alex

Nice, I have tested it now, turned automatically on (it came as disabled as default) and first image went on nicely… Now this automatically smushit being disabled as soon as I activate it, already means it detected service down? Will it detect again next time?
Really nice you have been carrying for it. I will be reporting new issues if it ever comes. Only way I can contribute to your work.
thanks

@fredgorski — By default it will wait 6 hours before trying again, so everything uploaded in that time period will need to be manually smushed. I think that timeout might be a bit extreme — maybe an hour would be more appropraite.

Definitely report any other issues that crop up.

Great you’re carrying the development, Alex. That really is wonderful.

I wonder about the 6 hours too. I also wonder whether the service itself is causing the timeout. I know in the past I’ve done a few manual Smushes and from memory, on those occasions, I got to do 2 compressions and the next caused timeouts. Have you heard whether Yahoo is placing any sort of throttling on the service?

That said, it might be a cool feature to add a cron based bulk Smush.it to cater for all the images ‘left hanging’ without compression. Just a thought.

Groping my way through what looks like an ongoing development process. On attempting bulk, I get:

Processing 120526_orchardcrew_004…
Automatic smushing has been disabled temporarily due to an error. Operation timed out after 20001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

@rastarr — I think Smush.it must be rate-limiting things. All my attempts end up the same as your. It’s the only thing that makes sense….

@ronavroberts that means that the Smush.it service timed out — you can manually enable it again in Media > Settings.

Even I am getting error “Automatic smushing has been disabled temporarily due to an error. Operation timed out after 20000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received” with Version 1.6.0.

@rupesh23 — that’s how it’s meant to work. Since we can do anything about Smush.it, the goal is to stop the plugin from slowing down your own site whenever Smush.it is overloaded.

I’m the developer of the plugin. I can confirm that this is a transient error with Yahoo!’s Smush.it service which is, unfortunately, totally out of my control.

Thanks a lot for the update Alex. The plugin is working fine now.

Thanks a lot for the update Alex. I re-activate the plugin now.. ??

not compatible with WP 3.3.2.

@sulistyo woww, how could it be ?. But i found also with same other users where the new update couldn’t use its function. Not like older version 1.5. Is it not compatible with WP 3.3.2. ?

Thanks b4 ??

THANK YOU ALEX!!