ianarmstrong

Yup, I see that it can be set on an individual basis. Being able to shift to a role-based setting would really help me lock down a site though. Granted, there are still plenty of back doors in a WP site that isn’t maintained but deleting the front door eliminates 99 out of 100 would be hackers.

Thanks for the quick response!

It sounds like we’re in agreement on the best solution. Now it’s up the community to rally behind the concept, or shrug and shuffle along ??

Sorry, one last thought before I go back to doing real work ??

“Additionally, this plugin started with a focus on running optimizations locally, which has a variety of benefits. The cloud service I launched a few months ago was done only to serve those who cannot (or don’t want to) run the optimizers on their own servers for whatever reason.”

When you’re on a WiredTree or Liquidweb VPS, it makes sense to do everything you can locally, since you’ve got the resources for it. When you’re freelancing and a client is on a metered host (80% of all cases in my experience) then you get as far as you can from memory & CPU intensive processes. The 15 min throttle is a killer.

The other thing that I’d love to see supported is an automatic conversion to progressive JPG before processing. It’s like… a 3 line change in the WP core. I haven’t yet explored the best way to enable it with a plugin but if WP first makes all thumbnails progressive, then converts non-animated GIF to PNG, then aggressively compresses the reduced sizes.

Boy, that would be amazing.

Hey Nos,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can appreciate that your goal has been lossless compression and I think it’s a good idea to continue giving people that option. Your principles are sound.

With that said, we’re talking about 60%+ additional file compression with almost undetectable visual changes to the naked eye. When we’re dealing with clients who flock like sheep to DreamHost, BlueHost, and other metered providers – we’re suddenly talking about an enormous difference in page load time.

Perhaps the best solution is a compromise. Might I suggest that you always save original using lossless optimization, but allow the thumbnail images to be processed through more aggressive means? This would allow us to significantly compress the data transmitted on most page loads without sacrificing quality where it is expected.

Your solution is better than any other on the plugin market but, at this point, I’m still downloading the monthly uploads folder for 30+ clients during the first week of each month and compressing every thumbnail manually (originals too in many cases, where quality is less important than efficiency). It’s a back breaking task.

It also needs a float: left on #tpcmem_pbar under the new WordPress 3.8.

I’ve emailed the author and asked if he would be willing to post the project to GIT so that we can maintain it as a community.

It’s dynamically combining scripts, which is going to create a lot of CPU overhead. Run your DNS through Cloudflare and let them do the work. You’ll get better results ??

Resolved

Forget everything I said. The contextual help hadn’t popped up – I was missing the domain configuration step.

Note that I receive no items related to WPMandrill in my WP error log or the console

I would imagine you could pull a reference out of the WooCommerce source, if you want to see a working example:

https://screencast.com/t/JVgCNwsdc

Sure be nice if the author was as interested in fixing this as everyone else is…

This plugin really needs a new maintainer. Good eye, mdetrick.

I can verify over 2700 repeating strict-standards errors per load, of the same variety, using WP 3.6 on an Apache server. My temporary solution will be to try and track down the error, then @ the line so it doesn’t report. I’ll check other sites later today and see if I have similar 40gb log files – or if this one is an anomaly.

This is definitely new. SEO Ultimate hasn’t done this until recently.

Ah, yeah… looks like you aren’t accounting for a link title in the replace function.

function fontawesome_replace( $a ) {
        $listitem = $a[0];
        $icon = $a[2];
        $link_text = $a[3];
        $str_noicon = str_replace( $icon, '', $listitem );
        $str = str_replace( $link_text, '<i class="' . trim( $icon ) . '"></i><span class="fontawesome-text"> ' . $link_text . '</span>', $str_noicon );
        return $str;
    }