Changelog

2.0.9

Release date: October 22nd 2020
* Fix: the integration with W3 Total Cache wasn’t properly working;
* Fix: in certain cases an image was cropped in a smaller size after being present in a not cropped larger size;
* Fix: workaround for Swift Performance’s bug that was making changes in JSON variables thus breaking SPAI’s JS code;
* Fix: certain images were being displayed twice on devices with JS deactivated;
* Fix: a division by zero notice was sometimes thrown, which is now gone;
* Fix: in certain situations the plugin was trying to calculate the image size for css files;
* Fix: when NextGen Gallery was active, some of its admin screens were reloading because of a JS library clash;
* Language: 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzed, and 0 obsoleted.

2.0.8

Release date: October 8th 2020
* Fix: there was a typo in the ai.js file;
* Fix: the fatal error for declaring Psr\Cache\CacheException is now fixed for good;
* Fix: Modula Creative Gallery now works with SPAI’s lazy loading;
* Fix: for the NextGen lightbox sizing problem, also cache the get_image_size calls;
* Fix: the integration with WP Fastest Cache works correctly now;
* Language: 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzed, and 0 obsoleted.

2.0.7

Release date: October 6th 2020
* New: option to force crop an image using a custom property data-spai-crop;
* New: added JS events spai-body-handled, spai-element-handled and spai-block-handled;
* Tweak: also parse input type image;
* Compat: added rs-bg-elem for slider-revolution;
* Compat: integrate Divi’s custom attribute data-et-multi-view;
* Fix: URLs from IMG src are now correctly parsed, even if there’s an extra space at the end;
* Fix: sometimes a fatal error was thrown when one of the plugin dependencies was declared by another plugin;
* Language: 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzed, and 0 obsoleted.

2.0.6

Release date: September 15th 2020
* New: Added a filter for the original url: ‘shortpixel/ai/originalUrl’;
* New: Integrated with The Grid plugin;
* Fix: parse tags attributes that have spaces around the ‘=’ sign;
* Fix: parse correctly cases when data-thumb is a HTML;
* Fix: displaying the associated domain in multisite installations;
* Fix: comma seprated excluding selectors are properly added via JS too in the plugin settings;
* Tweak: hide login button and account e-mail for sub-accounts;
* Language: 0 new strings added, 6 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.

2.0.5

Release date: August 20th 2020
* Fix: a better method to parse the html tags’ attributes in order to avoid potential errors;
* Fix: removed HelpScout and Quriobot in order to comply with the directory plugins guidelines; added Support and FAQ links instead;
* Fix: excluding selectors can now be added comma separated in the plugin settings;
* Fix: only HTML and JSON will be parsed from now on, other types or malformatted content will be ignored;
* Fix: updated the user capability needed to access the settings, from install_plugins to manage_options;
* Fix: compatibility with Oxygen Builder;
* Fix: missing Lity library on some pages;
* Fix: conflict with WooCommerce Variation Swatches plugin;
* Fix: some unminified 3rd party JS files were throwing console errors in wp-admin;
* Fix: the login link in the plugin settings now logs the user directly on the ShortPixel site;
* Fix: minor fixes for certain notifications and hooks used by the plugin;
* Compat: deactivate the default lazy loading introduced in WordPress 5.5 when the plugin JS lazy loading is active;
* Compat: added notification for WP Optimize’s CSS Merge functionality, which can break the CSS in some cases;
* Language: 28 new strings added, 14 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 3 obsoleted.

2.0.4

Release date: July 30th 2020
* Fix: A notice is now displayed when the Combine JS option is activated in LiteSpeed plugin, until a proper integration will be ready;
* Fix: A fatal error was thrown in certain situations when Elementor Pro plugin was active;
* Fix: Compatibility with Slider Revolution;
* Fix: Front-checker tool didn’t properly work in case the user name had special chars;
* Fix: Added a notification that blocks the on-boarding wizard in case WebP delivery is active on ShortPixel Image Optimizer, as it was causing conflcts;
* Fix: background:url links will now be replaced even if they have a space after the opening bracket;
* Tweak: CSS files with <link rel=prefetch> links will also be replaced;
* Tweak: The Image Checker Tool strings can now be translated as well;
* Tweak: Minor CSS improvements in the notifications;
* Language: 79 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 3 obsoleted.

2.0.3

Release date: July 17th 2020
* Fix: certain exclusions were not kept when upgrading from 1.x to 2.x;
* Fix: some PHP warnings & errors that were showing up in some very specific cases;
* Fix: minor refactoring in some parts of the code;
* Language: 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.

2.0.2

Release date: July 14th 2020
* Fix: Various situations when the plugin wasn’t properly working with Elementor Pro;
* Fix: For the on-boarding message regarding available credits;
* Fix: WooCommerce product images were no longer displayed when looged in, in certain situations;
* Fix: In certain viewport settings the optimized images weren’t visible;
* Language: 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.

2.0.1

Release date: July 9th 2020
* Fix: on certain PHP 7.0.x versions there was a fatal error that is now fixed;
* Fix: the integration with WP Fastest Cache will now check if all methods used are properly defined;
* Fix: the deactivation pop-up wasn’t working properly in some cases;
* Fix: width/height attributes being larger on real 1×1 images;
* Fix: SVG files can now be properly excluded with the Image Checker Tool;
* Language: 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.

2.0.0

Release date: July 8th 2020
* New: Onboarding wizard, which guides the user through the plugin settings and features, including before and after GTMetrix test, in order to check the performance imprrovement;
* New: Front-end tool to detect what are the best settings for the given site, as part of the onboarding wizard;
* New: Settings are now reorganized and with a new layout. All settings are now stored in one serialized option inside the DB;
* New: Account status box on the settings page;
* New: Browser native lazy-loading support;
* New: Option to add NOSCRIPT fallback for the image tags, when using the SRC replace method;
* New: ImageChecker tool on the front-end (while logged in), to exclude images from optimization, lazy-loading or resizing and also to refresh an image on the CDN;
* New: Handle image swapping on hover; Until now, the image displayed on hovering another image wasn’t handled by the plugin;
* New: Option to serve SVG files from ShortPixel’s CDN;
* New: Option to replace images from JS blocks with optimized and properly scaled ones, served from the CDN;
* New: Added integrations with caching plugins: W3 Total Cache, Swift Performance Pro, WP Fastest Cache; The image URL’s are now replaced directly in the minified CSS files handled by these plugins;
* New: Added a deactivation pop-up that includes the possibility to downgrade the settings to the 1.x.x version;
* Tweak: Improved the integration with Elementor plugin (Simple Image Lightbox);
* Tweak: You can now select the image types for which WebP will be delivered to supporting browsers;
* Tweak: Improved ShortPixel support integration, which now allows easy searching inside the plugin documentation, straight from the settings page;
* Fix: Issues related to indexing of the images by Google and other bots;
* Language: 305 new strings added, 0 updated, 1 fuzzied, and 122 obsoleted

1.8.9

Release date: June 9th 2020
* Fix JSON not properly replaced background-image, when the only background images are from JSON (MyListings theme);
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.

1.8.8

Release date: May 28th 2020
* Fix some roundings when calculating image size;
* Fix PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in url-tools.class.php line 284;
* Added update notices functionality in order to announce the upcoming discontinuation of support for PHP < 5.6;
* Language – 6 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.

1.8.7

Release date: 27th April 2020
* Fix for smooth lazy loading (fade-in);
* Fix for srcsets with different aspect ratio images;
* Fix: remove jQuery’s Deferred() from WebP check, as it was generating JS errors in certain situations with WP Rocket enabled;
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.8.6

Release date: 20th April 2020
* Fix slow query based on GUID on wp_posts
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.8.5

Release date: 13th April 2020
* Fix wrong replace of srcset in some cases after the metadata changes
* Fix integration with Oxygen builder when using code blocks
* Support Elementor’s data-settings in <header> tag
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.8.4

Release date: 16th March 2020
* Fix background-images with white space before the closing paranthesis
* Fix isFullPseudoSrc
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.8.3

Release date: 12th March 2020
* Fix replacing images when NextGen active
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.8.2

Release date: 5th March 2020
* Fix images having URLs without protocol (//mysite.com)
* Handle multiple background-image’s in the same style attribute
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.8.1

Release date: 3rd March 2020
* W3C compliant inline image placeholders
* Integrate with the Content Views plugin.
* Fix wrong absolute URL calculation for relative image URLs and page URLs not ending in /
* More precise size determination for fractional width and height, using getComputedStyle instead of jQuery.
* Remove the obsolete setting External meta because now the inline image placeholders are W3C compliant.
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 2 obsoleted

1.8.0

Release date: 11th February 2020
* Integrate with WP Rocket’s CSS cache in order to replace the image URLs there.
* Add preconnect header.
* Integrate with Lovely 2 theme.
* Integrate with My Listings theme.
* Parse divs data-thumbnail and data-options too.
* Fixed: ‘path’ not defined notice when validating some URLs
* Fixed: parsing encoded HTML inside JSON blocks inside HTML.
* Fixed: warning meta[‘file’] undefined in some circumstances.
* Fixed: replacing the generated stats graph of JetPack.
* Language – 2 new strings added, 1 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.7.5

Release date: 2nd January 2020
* Don’t replace lazily inside structured data
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.7.4

Release date: 30th December 2019
* Fix PHP Warning: preg_match() on JSON AJAX in some circumstances
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.7.3

Release date: 22nd December 2019
* Replace inside application/json scripts
* Fixed: style blocks extracting based on regex failing on specific large blocks
* Fixed: AJAX calls returning a primitive which is valid JSON
* Fixed: exclude properly from srcset based on URL
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.7.2

Release date: 17th December 2019
* Fix handling lazy URLs on HTML tags that are present only on JSON data.
* Properly exclude by path URLs from srcset
* Fix wrong handling of non-image URLs in JSON AJAX in some situations ( video src )
* Language – 3 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.7.1

Release date: 13th December 2019
* Fix JS typo.

1.7.0

Release date: 12th December 2019
* Add a JS callback that is called after each tag is changed
* Better handling of HTML properties inside JSON calls.
* Fixed: not matching URLs having three bytes characters in JSON objects.
* Fixed: srcset replacement when the first item doesn’t have the size indicator.

1.6.1

Release date: 27th November 2019
* Fixed: wrong URLs on srcset with excluded image in some circumstances.
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.6.0

Release date: 25th November 2019
* Add option to replace lazily in JSON AJAX calls.
* Compatibility with CROWD 2 theme.
* Compatibility with Gravity Forms.
* Compatibility with Stack theme.
* Fixed: srcset not being parsed and integrated properly on SRC method when the URL is from Media Library.
* Fixed: use the same type of quote for SPAI’s own attributes as the one of the URL – some JSON encoded content doesn’t escape both types.
* Fixed: if the srcset is already parsed, don’t try to parse again.
* Fixed: content coming later in AJAX doesn’t have the tags on record to be parsed. Send next time.
* Fixed: PHP warning when specifying a selector without tag before the #id.
* Language – 1 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.5.2

Release date: 12th November 2019
* Fixed: calculating the image size when there are several paddings involved – another case.
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.5.1

Release date: 11th November 2019
* Integrate with WP Grid Builder.
* Integrate with Smart Slider 3.
* Rescale all lazy-loaded backgrounds.
* Don’t add size parameters to SVGs.
* Fixed: handling of the WooCommerce product variations.
* Fixed: catch JS exceptions caused by wrong regexes configured by users in settings.
* Fixed: iPhone page reloaded caused by the CSS files parsing by JS.
* Fixed: calculating the image size when there are several paddings involved.
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.5.0

Release date: 5th November 2019
* Button to clear the .css cache in Advanced settings.
* Update width and height attributes of the img tag when modifying the src
* Replace eagerly in style blocks
* Integrate with Jupiter theme’s slider that uses JSON-encoded image attributes.
* Integrate with galleries that use the media-gallery-link attribute.
* Add index.html with noindex in each folder for sites which don’t implement proper access rules to the plugin folder.
* More explicit errors when the plugin can’t connect to ShortPixel to check credits.
* Fix broken retina @2x shortpixel logo on notices
* Language – 6 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.4.1

Release date: 25th October 2019
* Make the external metadata optional with default in-placeholder
* Fixed: broken regex which was not catching some backgrounds.
* Language – 3 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.4.0

Release date: 23rd October 2019
* Replace image URLs inside CSS files too, minify the CSS files and serve them from CDN.
* Add JSON parsing support option.
* Use eager URLs when replacing inside <noscript> tags.
* Serve SVG files from CDN too.
* Integrate with WP Bakery’s data-ultimate-bg attribute.
* Integrate with Slider Revolution’s lazyload in slider.
* Compatibility with Oxygen Builder’s a hrefs.
* Fix srcset’s images heights on BOTH mode.
* Notify conflict with Divi Toolbox version < 1.4.2.
* Fix replacing background images for some sliders: Revolution Slider, Glow Pro’s Swiper slider and Optimizer PRO’s frontpage slider.
* Fix bug on iPhone: delays in rendering the inline placeholders delay the initial parsing and conflicts with mutations.
* Settings advanced tab now remains active after save if previously selected.
* Language – 7 new strings added, 2 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.3.6

Release date: 30th September 2019
* Fix replacing background images when delimited by "
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.3.5

Release date: 23rd September 2019
* For <img>‘s, take the largest image from src and srcset if srcset is present
* Compatibility with Slider Revolution
* Compatibility with Oxygen Builder
* Notify incompatibility with Divi Toolbox’s “Custom Post Meta” option.
* Fixed: images not loaded on first page load on some iPhones due to the fact that DOMLoaded event is triggered before the <img>‘s inline src’s are parsed.
* Fixed: not replacing divs data-thumbs in some circumstances
* Language – 7 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.3.4

Release date: 14th September 2019
* fix replacing images in <img data-src> tags
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.3.3

Release date: 12th September 2019
* Fix SRCSET parsing
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.3.2

Release date: 11th September 2019
* Fix IE problem and DOM syntax errors due to the non-standard data:image
* If an image is resized to a specific size and later on in the same page the same image needs a smaller size, use again the previously resized image.
* Fix CSS backgrounds regex in some cases
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.3.1

Release date: 10th September 2019
* Better integration with Modula
* Fixed: background regex in some cases
* Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.3.0

Release date: 9th September 2019
* Add option to cap backgrounds to a max width
* Add option to lazy-load backgrounds and limit their width to device width
* Improve performance of front-end JS by parsing only tags that were affected on back-end.
* Better handling for cropped images if crop option set.
* Keep EXIF option.
* Fixed: wrong API url on multisites
* Fixed: catastrophic backtracking on pages with huge ( > 1M ) CDATA blocks
* Fixed: background images in inline style not caught properly in some cases
* Language – 15 new strings added, 1 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.2.6

Release date: 28th August 2019

• Improve the main image regex in order to catch some malformed cases
• Replace also link rel=”icon” in the header
• Fix warning strpos needle is empty
• Be able to find file on disk based on urlencoded name from URL, for images with spaces in the name (try with urldecode too).
• Language – 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

1.2.5

Release date: 17th July 2019

• improve the load time of images displayed on DOM changes (as menus for instance)
• code refactoring in preparation of DOM Parser
• Fix JS error settings not an object
• Fix some replacing issues when URLs contain encoded characters.
• Fix replacing urls when pages under edit in some builders (Thrive Architect, Avia among them)

1.2.4

Release date: 3rd July 2019

• Fix bug in span background-image
• Compatibility with Ginger – EU Cookie Law plugin
• Parse also <section>‘s backgrounds
• Fix bug when parsing some background-images containing spaces

1.2.3

Release date: 20th June 2019

• Add help links and Support beacon
• Compatibility with Thrive Architect and Avia Layout Builder
• Fix problem with sites having the WP install in a subfolder (site_url vs. home_url)
• Fix notice on sites with older Autoptimize versions
• Skip the <a> tags when determining the size of an element recursively, based on parent size
• Fix: background images of spans
• Refactoring in preparation for DOM Parse

1.2.2

Release date: 7th June 2019

• Fix for image URLs containing &’s
• fix for eagerly loaded background-image URLs not containing the protocol (//some.site/img.jpg)

1.2.1

Release date: 6th June 2019

• Fix JS not triggering when DOMContentLoaded was fired before the JS load

1.2.0

Release date: 4th June 2019

• Integrate with Viba Portfolio
• Integrate with the Elementor paralax section
• Work around random jQuery not loaded error due to jQuery bug (https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/3271)
• Don’t lazy-load the images set on backgrounds in <style> blocks.
• Move ai.min.js to footer
• Fix exclude pattern matching when class defined without quotes (<div class=myclass>)

1.1.3

Release date: 30th May 2019

• Fix JS issues on iPhone 6s
• Make Elementor External CSS warning dismissable
• Fix exclude regexes added on Windows and having \r\n at the end.
• Fix replacing images that are not in Media Library but directly in wp_content

1.1.2

Release date: 29th May 2019

• Thrive Architect preview compatibility
• Parse also the <amp-img> tag
• Fix not parsing AJAX in some circumstances
• Fix compatibility with Safari in some cases when ai.min.js is loaded later (async)
• Fix translations by adding load_plugin_textdomain

1.1.1

Release date: 27th May 2019

• Retina displays – properly take into account pixel ratio when resizing images.
• Fix feed-back loop on MutationObserver caused by some jQuery versions which set id as a hack to implement qSA thus trigger a mutation
• Parse also the .css files in browser – in order to catch some optimization plugins (like Swift Performance) which extract the inline CSS to external .css resources
• Notify if Elementor has the option to use External File for CSS Print Method because it conflicts with replacing background-image’s

1.1.0

Release date: 23rd May 2019

• option to exclude images based on URL parts or patterns
• option to either do or do not the fade-in effect when lazy-loading
• fix for urls starting with ‘//’
• fix for urls starting with ‘../’ even if the page is in the root of the site ( https://example.com/../pictures/pic1.jpg )

1.0.3

Release date: 20th May 2019

• fix replacing background image on elements not initially visible
• MSIE fixes: String.startsWith polyfill, fix IntersectionExplorer polyfill, handle cases when element.parentNode.children is undefined ( IE magic:) )
• Fix compatibility with WooCommerce’s magnifier lens when using the fade-in effect of the lazy-loaded images.

1.0.2

Release date: 16th May 2019

• integrate Avada – notify to deactivate the lazy-loading of Avada

1.0.1

Release date: 10th May 2019

• better handling of the excludes by tag ID
• do not replace the images src if plugin’s JS script was dequeued (like on logins or coming soon pages).
• check if the URL has host before, in order to prevent some warnings.

1.0.0

Release date: 8th May 2019

• alert when quota is low or exhausted.
• fade-in effect for lazy-loaded images
• replace also the background CSS shorthand
• do not replace the unsupported image types (like SVG) in backgrounds either

0.9.6

Release date: 25th April 2019

• updates of the verification of Autoptimize’s setting for image optimization after changes in version 2.5.0.

0.9.5

Release date: 25th April 2019

• fix JS error on Firefox

0.9.4

Release date: 23rd April 2019

• Parse the CSS <style> blocks for background-image rules and replace them
• Smarter replace for background-image rules – cover cases when there is also a gradient
• Alert for double compression when ShortPixel Image Optimization is present has the same lossy setting
• Alert for conflict when Autoptimize has the option to deliver images using ShortPixel’s service.
• Make sure it doesn’t replace the URL of any image type (by extension) which is not supported
• Exclude the AMP endpoints from replacing
• fix bug for the Elementor gallery which was replacing other links having common CSS class

0.9.3

Release date: 4th March 2019

• Integrate galleries: Foo Gallery, Envira, Modula, Elementor, Essential add-ons for Elementor, Everest, default WordPress gallery
• Integrate with WP Bakery’s Testimonial widget
• activate the integrations only if the respective plugins are active (also for existing NextGen integration)
• use the ‘+’ separator for optimization params, which integrates better with some plugins which parse the srcset and get puzzled by the comma.
• display a notice about conflicts with other lazy-loading plugins.

0.9.2

Release date: 13th February 2019

• exclude from parsing the <script> and <![CDATA[ sections
• honour the GET parameter PageSpeed=off used by some third parties as the Divi Builder
• add settings link in the plugins list
• lazy-load the images referred by inline background-image CSS
• Fixed: image src’s without quotes followed immediately by >, URLs containing non-encoded UTF8, inline background-image URL with " etc

0.9.1

Release date: 30th January 2019

• handle <div data-src="...">
• handle  ‘s, "’s in background-image CSS
• handle images with empty href
• handle more cases of hrefs without quotes

0.9.0

Release date: 23rd January 2019

• Use the Babel generated replacement for the async/await WebP code
• parse the background-image inline style
• check also if the element is :visible
• add to settings a list of excludes which leaves the URL as it is
• use svg instead of gif for the inline image replacement, for better compatibility with Safari
• use minified javascript for front-end
• fixed: IntersectionObserver on Safari

0.8.0

Release date: 9th December 2018

• WebP support

0.7.2

Release date: 28th October 2018

• add MutationObserver polyfill
• add alert that plugin is in beta

0.7.1

Release date: 7th October 2018

• Fix performance problems when page has many modifications by JS.

0.7.0

Release date: 3rd November 2018

• added lazy loading of images.

0.6.4

Release date: 7th October 2018

• add the SRCSET and BOTH (both src and srcset) option
• urlencode the URLS before base64 to circumveit incompatibility with atob on some characters like (R)