My favorite WordPress caching plugin released a small but significant update today. It’s significant because there have been many bug reports on how the plugin handled images, especially with the conversion of WebP. I found myself constantly reverting certain images to their original state, so it could then replace them with the WebP version, but that wouldn’t go so well. Here are a couple of bug fixes in this new release 5.5.1 (July 19, 2023). As always, be sure to make a backup of your Website before updating.
Bug Fixes
Image Optimization: Fixed a bug where WebP replacements couldn’t be pulled without optimizing the original images.
Image Optimization: Invalid images will now be removed when sending requests to the server.
Cloud: Added support for error codes unpulled_images and blocklisted.
These image optimization bug fixes come after a previous release 5.5 last month on June 20, 2023, where they addressed some issues with synchronization.
Release 5.5 (June 20, 2023)
- Image Optimize Now pulls images asynchronously.
- Image Optimize Now prevents concurrent requests via a locking mechanism.
- Image Optimize The process can now bypass invalid image records and continue.
- Image Optimize Fixed an issue where images ready for optimization might have to wait for new images to be added before sending the request.
My Take
If you haven’t used the LiteSpeed Cache plugin, you are really missing out. If you want to know more about it, read about why I think, in my opinion, it’s the best. And what I love about the LiteSpeed Web Server
