Speed Booster Pack

Release Date: 05 June 2022

• Improved: Refactoring of some old code.
• Fixed: Various bug fixes.

Release Date: 27 May 2022

• Improved: Some code refactoring.
• Improved: Lazy loading should perform even better now.
• Fixed: Semi-important issue regarding an unintentional redirect.
• Fixed: Some smaller, less-annoying bugs.

Release Date: 18 May 2022

• Fixed: JSON outputs had that extra HTML comment which broke more than a few things...
• Fixed: On rare occasions, the cachefile was saved completely empty.
• Removed: New users won't see an introduction popup because it's not the most pleasant way to greet a new user. Instead, we're going to update our dashboard text in the next version.

Release Date: 14 May 2022

• NEW: New option called "Dequeue global styles".
• Improved: Lots of refactoring to the class-sbp-tweaks.php file.
• Improved: Removed unused helper functions.
• Fixed: Full site editing related bug squashed.
• Fixed: HTML minifier did a lot more damage than it did good, so we replaced it with an external class from github.com/mrclay/minify.
• Fixed: Hooked our public-faced features to init instead of template_redirect so it's more compatible with other plugins.
• Fixed: Reverted the shutdown hook as it did more damage than good.
• Fixed: The PHP version warning (shown to PHP 5.x users) is now dismissible.

Release Date: 24 April 2021

• Fixed: One more (tiny) fix to the deactivation survey.

Release Date: 14 April 2021

• NEW: Simple warning notice about PHP version (when it's below 7.0).
• Fixed: Deactivation survey didn't show the details textarea.
• Fixed: LiteSpeed cache cached logged-in users even when the setting was turned off.

Release Date: 14 April 2021

• NEW - WooCommerce optimizations: The "Special" tab is replaced with the "WooCommerce" tab with SEVEN WC-related optimizations, four of them brand new!
• NEW - Deactivation survey: An optional survey added to the "Deactivate" button to get feedback from users leaving us, so we can improve SBP even further.
• Improved: Added a shutdown hook so the plugin plays better with other plugins (like Really Simple SSL).
• Improved: A few ifs here and there to improve the performance of the plugin.
• Improved: LiteSpeed cache users can now exclude cookies!
• Improved: Improvements with the lazy load feature - GetWid videos and videos using mediaelements.js are now lazy loaded properly.
• Improved: The placeholder image of lazy loaded images is also improved, using a transparent pixel instead of a gray one.
• Improved: Improvements with the method which adds the WP_CACHE constant to the wp-config.php file.
• Updated: Updated Codestar Framework to v2.2.6.
• Updated: Updated lazyload.js to v17.7.0.

Release Date: 12 March 2021

• Improved: Speed Booster Pack's wp-admin CSS file got a bit smaller.
• Improved: Better onboarding with titles.
• Improved: The CDN feature is now enabled with a toggle.
• Improved: Code improvements in the "LiteSpeed cache" feature.
• Improved:
• Fixed: Fixed an issue when there were no fonts found inside page sources.
• Fixed: The "set image dimensions" feature now correctly detects image URLs that start with http:// while the site URL starts with https:// (and vice versa).
• Fixed:
• Updated: Updated Codestar Framework to v2.2.6.
• Updated: Updated intro.js to v5.0.0.
• Removed: Custom Code Manager is now removed. Users who added custom codes will get a notice to copy their code to somewhere else
• Removed:

Release Date: 05 February 2021

• NEW - LiteSpeed Caching: This experimental new feature connects to your LiteSpeed server and use LiteSpeed's caching structure. Since it's really new, be sure to test thoroughly and kindly report any bugs to our GitHub page.
• Improved: Better page caching by refactoring some of the code.
• Fixed: Fixed onboarding for non-English users.
• Fixed: Fixed a small issue with per-post/page critical CSS settings.
• Updated: Updated Codestar Framework to v2.2.5.
• Removed: The Advisor tab is now removed because the Site Health screen in WordPress core will include a Performance tab with the same functionality (in the future).

Release Date: 15 November 2021

• Fixed: Tiny bug in the cache delivery system.

Release Date: 15 November 2021

• Fixed: Tiny bug in the cache delivery system.

Release Date: 13 November 2021

• Improved: Added an onboarding modal to the settings page for first-time users.
• Fixed: Fixed some bugs in the advanced-cache.php generation process.
• Fixed: Lots of improvements/fixes to the cache warmup process.

Release Date: 16 October 2021

Had to release a tiny hotfix because we forgot to change the version. And while we're at it, we edited the readme a bit.

Release Date: XX September 2021

• NEW: You can now disable Speed Booster Pack for certain user roles.
• NEW: You can now add <link rel="preload"> tags for featured images.
• Improved: Advisor works better now!

Release Date: 11 September 2021

• Improved: Better handling of notices.
• Improved: Database engine converter works slightly better now.
• Fixed: Small bug in Google font optimizer.
• Fixed: Post revisions setting wasn't working in some cases.
• Updated: Codestar options framework is updated to its latest version.
• Removed: "Dequeue Jetpack's devicepx script" is gone.

Release Date: 29 August 2021

• NEW - Advisor: This new feature will recommend things like upgrading your PHP version, HTTP protocol and more, in the future.
• NEW - Set missing image dimensions: SBP can now set missing width and height parameters for <img> tags automatically.
• NEW - Content-specific Critical CSS: Allows you to set critical CSS rules for each post, page or other custom post types.
• NEW - Content-specific Optimize JS: Allows you to set JS optimization rules for each post, page or other custom post types.
• Improved: Google Fonts optimizer now supports /css2 URLs!
• Improved: Better handling of the wp-config.php file.
• Improved: Better handling of Cloudflare credentials.
• Improved: You can now exclude CSS files from being deferred while critical CSS is enabled.
• Fixed: An immutable notice shows that the PageSpeed Tricker feature is enabled.
• Fixed: Email newsletter nag shows one day after SBP is installed, instead of immediately on first install.
• Fixed: Fixed a harmless error in the cache warmup process.

Release Date: 03 July 2021

• Fixed: Tiny hotfix for a bug that causes an error during the plugin update (but completely harmless).

Release Date: 02 July 2021

• NEW - Database Engine Converter Tool: Lets you convert database table engines from MyISAM to InnoDB.
• NEW - Content-specific preloads: Allows you to set <link rel="preload" ... /> rules for each post, page or other custom post types.
• NEW - Dequeue comment-reply.js: Dequeues the comment reply script.
• Improved: More Cloudflare settings, included their brand new Automatic Platform Optimization (APO)!
• Improved: Notifications of Speed Booster Pack are less annoying now, mostly moved to the Speed Booster Pack settings page.
• Improved: JS optimization settings are improved by splitting "Move JS to footer" and "Defer JavaScript" features into two different settings. Make sure your JS optimization settings are still working after this update!
• Improved: The CSS optimization PHP class is rewritten. User feedback welcome after this update! :)
• Improved: Caching feature is greatly improved, both in terms of performance and code quality. We even squashed a few tiny bugs!
• Improved: You can now exclude cookies from caching.
• Improved: CriticalCSS options are extended to include conditional tags for WooCommerce products (is_product()) and product categories (is_product_category()). Also now the admin bar CSS is always excluded from being deferred.
• Improved: Lazy loader is greatly improved.
• Fixed: Minor security flaws ("minor" because only administrators are able to break things in previous 4.x versions).
• Fixed: A conflict between SBP and All in One SEO Pack is fixed.
• Fixed: A conflict between SBP and Elementor is fixed.
• Fixed: A tiny bug is fixed in the autosave setting.
• Updated: The library of the options framework is updated.

Release Date: 23 March 2021

• Improved: Cloudflare integration improvements.
• Improved: Hosting compatibility improvements.
• Improved: Settings panel improvements.
• Fixed: HTML encoding/decoding issues with the SimpleHtmlDom library.
• Fixed: Changed the placeholder image data URI when lazy loading is active (used to show a broken image icon).
• Fixed: Kinsta compatibility improvements caused some PHP warnings - not anymore.

Release Date: 4 March 2021

• Improved: Cloudflare integration improvements.
• Improved: Hosting compatibility improvements.
• Improved: Settings panel improvements.
• Fixed: HTML encoding/decoding issues with the SimpleHtmlDom library.
• Fixed: Changed the placeholder image data URI when lazy loading is active (used to show a broken image icon).

Release Date: 21 January 2021

• NEW - Critical CSS: Improve your First Contentful Paint (FCP) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) times and eliminate the "Eliminate render-blocking resource" recommendation
• NEW - Sucuri integration: Now you can enter your Sucuri API keys to have Speed Booster Pack clear Sucuri's cache each time SBP's cache is cleared.
• NEW - PageSpeed Tricker: This experimental feature lets you see how easy it is to manipulate your PageSpeed/Lighthouse scores. Using this on a live website is NOT recommended! Just have fun with it.

• NEW - Cache warmup: Now you can automatically cache all pages that are linked from your homepage using the Cache Warmup setting.

• Improved - CDN: Our CDN feature is rewritten, making it way more efficient!

• Improved - Cloudflare settings: Now you can control your Cloudflare settings on a more granular level!

• Improved - Lazy loading: Lazy loading now works better, faster and with more themes & plugins. Most importantly, now our lazy loader supports infinite scrollers!

• Improved - .htaccess: Added support for caching AVIF file format on browsers.

• Improved - Localize Analytics: Added an admin bar button to refresh the local analytics file. Also, moved the local analytics file into the /uploads/speed-booster/ directory.

• Improved - Hosting compatibility: Improved compatibility with various hosting companies.

• Improved - Plugin compatibility: Improved compatibility with various performance plugins.

• Improved - Options framework: Removed folders of unused fields in Codestar Framework, which powers our options framework.

• Improved - Uninstalling process: Updated uninstall.php for better cleanup upon SBP deletion.

• Improved - /vendor/: External frameworks are now loaded from within a /vendor/ directory, using Composer.

• Fixed: The crossorigin parameter is added only to preloaded fonts, not all preload links.

• Fixed: WordPress 5.6 changed the jQuery core filename, breaking most performance-related plugins including ours. Fixed that one.

• Fixed: Heartbeat settings caused a small PHP notice, which is now fixed.

• Updated: Options framework and lazy load library are updated to their latest versions.

• Removed: Option to disable jQuery Migrate is now gone.

Release Date: 31 July 2020

• Fixed: Small issues with the external notices are resolved.

Speed Booster Pack v4.0 is written from scratch! With the new options framework, your current options will be migrated to the new codebase but make sure you review your options after updating the plugin to the latest version.

Release Date: 24 April 2020

• Added: A new feature called PreBoost will allow you to add static assets as <link rel="preload" /> elements into page sources.
• Added: Two new (dismissible) notices will ask SBP users to participate in testing the new Speed Booster Pack v4.0 (beta), and to translate SBP into their own language.
• Updated: Tested for WordPress 5.4.
• Updated: Rewrote the Google Fonts optimization script.
• Updated: Updated lazyload.js to 15.1.1.
• Fixed: Hooking the cart fragments script.
• Fixed: Various tiny fixes.

Release Date: 29 February 2020

• Added: You can now exclude assets from lazy loading.
• Added: More "default" exclude rules added for the JS optimization feature.
• Fixed: An "empty needle" warning regarding replace functions.
• Updated: Updated lazyload.js to 12.5.1.
• Removed: Unnecessary jQuery UI slider script in the options screen.

Release Date: 13 February 2020

• Added: New feature - Optimize Google Fonts!
• Updated: Rewrote the whole JavaScript optimization feature! Hopefully it will work even better than our previous version. We also added a simple migration notice to not break current configurations, so be sure to migrate!
• Removed: JavaSript deferring feature has been removed - coming back in a future release!
• Removed: Deleted the non-working review nag.
• Updated: Updated lazyload.js to 12.4.0.
• Updated: Refactored the code a bit. Also cleaned up a lot of unnecessary stuff.
• Fixed: Speed Booster Pack is disabled for all (almost) Page Builder instances, and even a few other plugins that have front-end editors! You can also temporarily disable SBP for a specific URL by adding sbp_disable=1 at the end of a URL.
• Fixed: Tabbed navigation in the settings page is working better now.
• Fixed: A small issue in the emoji disabler feature is fixed.
• Fixed: Some translatable strings are changed and a few untranslatable strings are fixed.

Release Date: 11 November 2019

• Tested with WordPress 5.3.
• Updated: Updated instant.page to 3.0.0.
• Updated: Updated lazyload.js to 12.3.0.
• Changed the title of the plugin, and truncated the description.

Release Date: 18 October 2019

• Fixed: Added literally one question mark into the lazy loader script.

Release Date: 18 October 2019

• Updated: Rewrote the readme file from scratch (the description parts).
• Updated: Updated instant.page to version 2.0.0 and changed its filename to inspage.js because ad blocker plugins started blocking instant.page too.
• Fixed: Some errors in the CSS optimizer library.
• Removed: A little house cleaning for unused files.

Release Date: 10 July 2019

• Fixed: Set the plugin URL as relative, to comply with SSL enabling plugins.
• Updated: Moved the Local (Google) Analytics script to the /wp-content/cache/ directory.
• Updated: Rewrote some code to comply with WordPress & PHP coding standards.
• Updated: The plugin's readme file has now only 5 tags, because the WordPress plugin directory only minds the first 5 tags. Heh.

Release Date: 04 June 2019

• Fixed: Quick fix for the "Move scripts to footer" option.

Release Date: 03 June 2019

• Added: The new uninstall.php file now removes plugin settings when you delete the plugin. (Deactivating the plugin doesn't remove plugin settings.)
• Fixed: Minor styling & HTML validation fixes for the settings panel.
• Updated: Rewrote part of the Localize Analytics feature, and update the default Google Analytics code.
• Updated: Tags in readme.txt.
• Tested: Ensured the plugin works in WordPress version 5.2.1 and PHP version 5.6.

• Speed Booster Pack turns five! We're celebrating SBP's birthday (20th May) with a better (WAY better) admin interface. We changed places of some of the options in the General and Advanced tabs, and put a "be careful" warning on top of the Advanced, CDN and Google Analytics tabs. We also updated the CSS, and added a sidebar which has some speed test links that could turn into speed test widgets in the future!
• New: Added a "Disable jQuery Migrate" option.
• Fixed: Added a WooCommerce check for the "Disable cart fragments" option.
• Updated: The POT file is recreated and will be updated on each feature update.
• Removed: The "Load JS from Google Libraries" option.
• Removed: The "Disable all above CSS options on mobile devices" option.
• Removed: The "Disable XML-RPC" option.
• Removed: The "Remove extra Font Awesome styles" option. This will be added later, but needs a rewrite.
• Removed: Some very unnecessary CSS styling both in the plugin's main style.css file and a separate, jQuery UI-related file.

• Fixed most of the typos
• Added option: "Disable cart fragments"
• Added option: "Integrate instant.page"
• Removed option: JPEG quality
• Removed all default options for new users
• Fixed the issues with already defined constants
• Fixed the double jQuery issue
• Tested for WordPress 5.2

• Speed Booster Pack is acquired by Optimocha!
• Updates to the Optimize More tab

• Improved admin UI
• Added "Disable Self Pingbacks" option
• Added "Disable Dashicons" option
• Added "Disable Google Maps" option
• Added "Disable Heartbeat" option
• Added "Heartbeat frequency" option
• Added "Autosave interval" option
• Added "Remove REST API Links" option
• Added "Limit Post Revision" option
• Added CDN options
• Added Google Analytics options
• Removed "Remove RSD(Really Simple Discovery) Link" option
• Removed "Image compression level" option

• removed uninstall feedback

• minor backend tweaks - notice
• added language files

• minor tweaks & version bump
• removed ShortPixel aff integration

• minor backend tweaks

• Added a section for feedback in the plugin's dashboard

• Changed contributors and fixed a few bugs. Plugin is now under new ownership.

• Fix compatibility with the CrazyLazy plugin.

• Added an option to increase your page load speed by minifying JavaScript and HTML. Removed option to remove RSD Link, since its impact on improving speed was insignificant.

• Fix Lazy Load CSS problem.

• * Added Lazy Load feature to improve the web page loading times of your images.

• Following requests from users, added back the option of excluding javascript elements.

• We removed the option of excluding javascript elements as this option falls page speed score, making this plugin almost useless. Also, these options were only for advanced users, for regular users, incorrect use these options could destabilize the entire site functionality.
• We also removed the lazy load images option because it was outdated and broken. We'll come up with a new and updated solution soon.

• Added a new recommended features that can make your site load faster

• Fixed plugin options visibility issue

• All important options switched to off by default (on first plugin activation).

• Added Spanish translation by Andrew Kurtis

• Added option to exclude certain JS files from being moved to the footer.
• Added option to exclude certain JS files from being defered.
• Added a list of handles of all scripts and styles enqueued by your theme, useful for excluding options.
• Removed FOUC option since is useless with W3 Total Cache.
• Some visual changes on plugin options page.
• Translation updated with the new strings.
• Moved some admin inline scripts to js files.

Fixed TypeError: $ is not a function when Prevent Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) option is active. Thanks to @Marcio Duarte for the bug report.

• Added option to exclude certain CSS files from being loaded asynchronously.
• Changed the position of the styles when they are inlined to the footer (before js files).
• Added an experimental option to eliminate flash of unstyled content (FOUC) when all CSS styles are inlined to the footer.
• Translations updated.

• Fixed option to disable all CSS Async features on mobile devices.
• Fixed incompatibility with WPtouch plugin. Thanks to @DevilIce for the bug report.
• Update function wp_is_mobile() on lazy load images to really disabled this feature on mobile devices.

Added an option to disable all CSS Async features on mobile devices, to avoid some appearance issues until finding a clean solution to fix it.

Modified: amended previous except for the admin toolbar css to enqueue its stylesheets only if admin bar is showing, to not break the render blocking plugin option.

• Fix: breaking the SEO by Yoast plugin interface (perhaps as well as to others too). Thanks @JahLive for the bug report.
• Added an except for the admin toolbar css since the Load CSS asynchronously option removes its dashicons and stylesheets.

• Added option to load CSS asynchronously to render your page more quickly and get a higher score on the major speed testing services
• Added option to inline and minify all CSS styles and move them to the header or to the footer, to eliminate external render-blocking CSS and optimize CSS delivery.
• Added option to change the default image compression level, to help your pages load faster and keep file sizes smaller.
• Added memory usage information and active plugins number in the plugin options page.
• Replaced PHP version info with memory usage information (more useful).
• Added Romanian translation and POT file. Translators are welcome!

• Fixed Lazy Load missed js.

• Fixed some errors and missed codes from plugin fuctions.

• Added Lazy Load feature to improve the web page loading times of your images.
• Added an option to remove all rss feed links from WP Head.
• Added plugin options informations to the footer, visible in page source, useful for debugging.

• Added two features options: one to remove extra Font Awesome stylesheets added to your theme by certain plugins, if Font Awesome is already used in your theme and the other to remove WordPress Version Number.

• Fixed strict standards error: redefining already defined constructor for class.

• Modified the plugin version number variable in plugin options page.