Reloadify Frontend Sync

1.1.2

• Added a blueprint.json so the “Live Preview” (WordPress Playground) button on this plugin’s WordPress.org page works — it was previously disabled with a “missing or invalid blueprint.json” notice.
• Added support for three more browsers in Cross-Browser Reload: Vivaldi, Yandex Browser, and Samsung Internet — each gets its own detection, toggle, and status card alongside the existing seven.
• Reviewed the request-path code that runs on every frontend visit for anything that could add load on a busy server; no changes were needed — Developer Mode already gates the reload script to editors only by default, and the one settings lookup that always runs is a single cached option read.

1.1.1

• Fixed a video compression bug on Windows servers: the background ffmpeg command included nice, a Unix-only process-priority tool with no Windows equivalent, so the entire command failed to run there and video was silently never compressed (the original file was never at risk — this plugin only ever swaps a video if compression reports success — but Windows/local-dev users got zero benefit from the feature). Also hardened the success check so an implausibly small/truncated encode is rejected instead of accepted.
• New: Media Optimization image format is now a real choice — Automatic (default; picks the best your server supports), WebP only, or AVIF only — instead of always being decided for you. Choosing AVIF on a server that can’t produce it falls back to WebP automatically rather than silently converting nothing.
• Fixed: the help (i) icons were using the browser’s native tooltip (the plain title attribute), which can’t be styled or positioned and could render overlapping adjacent labels depending on cursor position. Replaced with a proper tooltip component — dark, rounded, positioned consistently below its icon, and it no longer clips or overlaps surrounding text.
• Renamed the Extra Features tab to Extensions.
• Fixed: SVG Upload Support defaulted to on, which didn’t match this plugin’s own documented intent (loosening a WordPress security default should be an explicit opt-in, never automatic) or the Scroll To Top button’s existing off-by-default behavior. Both now default to off; nothing changes for anyone who already explicitly turned either one on.
• Updated the Bengali (bn_BD) translation to cover the new format-choice control and the Extensions tab name.

1.1.0

• New Extra Features tab: optional SVG upload support (on by default — every upload is scanned for <script> tags, event-handler attributes, javascript: URIs, and embedded HTML before being accepted; blocked and rejected if any are found) and an optional Scroll To Top floating button (off by default; configurable position, color, and scroll-distance threshold).
• New Media Optimization (Server Performance tab, on by default): new image uploads automatically get WebP or AVIF versions generated alongside the original — whichever your server actually supports — without ever touching the original uploaded file. Existing media library images are optimized gradually in the background so a large library can’t turn into one long blocking job. Video is compressed in the background only when the server genuinely has ffmpeg available; otherwise it’s left untouched rather than pretending to optimize it. Includes an Optimize existing media now button so a quiet/local site doesn’t have to wait on WP-Cron traffic, and a new Optimization column in the Media Library shows the real, measured before/after size for every file.
• Added forced lazy-loading for images and embedded video iframes (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.), so offscreen media doesn’t load until a visitor actually scrolls to it.
• Speed Boost: three more items — throttles the Heartbeat API to once every 60 seconds in wp-admin and removes it from the frontend entirely, caps stored post revisions at 5 going forward, and stops WordPress from pinging itself when a post links to another post on the same site.
• New Last change detected readout with a Check now button on the Cross-Browser Reload tab, so you can save something anywhere in wp-admin and immediately confirm whether this plugin picked it up.
• Fixed: an admin settings save could go undetected the very first time a given option row was written (e.g. a WooCommerce setting saved for the first time on a fresh install). WordPress fires added_option instead of updated_option for that first write, and only the latter was being listened for; every save after the first one for that setting already worked correctly.
• Changed: Developer Mode is now a plain on/off toggle with no automatic timeout — it previously auto-disabled itself after 12 hours as a safety net, but now stays exactly as you set it until you switch it off yourself. See the FAQ above for the tradeoff this involves.
• Replaced permanent help paragraphs under section titles with a small (i) icon you hover for the same explanation on demand — except the opcache local dev only danger warning, which is deliberately left as visible text since it’s a safety warning, not optional detail.
• Speed Boost, Media Optimization, and Delete Data on Uninstall now sit side by side in one row instead of stacked full-width.
• Confirmed compatible with WordPress 7.0 (“Tested up to” header — WordPress.org’s validator only accepts major.minor here, not the full 7.0.2 patch version, even though that’s the actual release tested against).
• Updated the Bengali (bn_BD) translation to cover every new string introduced by Extra Features, Media Optimization, and the additional Speed Boost items.
• Fixed the same literal \u2019/\u2014/\u201c/\u201d escape-sequence bug from 1.0.1 recurring in the new Extra Features, Media Optimization, and Speed Boost messages — these display correctly as an apostrophe, dash, or curly quote now instead of the raw escape text.
• Code-quality fix: prefixed two global variables in uninstall.php flagged by the WordPress Coding Standards checker (this check runs on every release, since it’s not something that stays fixed automatically when code is merged from elsewhere).

1.0.2

• Added a video walkthrough and a step-by-step How It Works section to the plugin description, for people evaluating the plugin before installing.

1.0.1

• New Speed Boost (on by default, one toggle to turn off): strips the emoji detection script/CSS WordPress prints on every page, trims a few unused <head> tags, turns PHP OPcache on if the host has it available but left it off, and — scoped strictly to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, never a frontend visitor’s request — raises memory_limit and max_execution_time headroom, but only ever upward, never below whatever the host already allows. Helps with the slow-or-failed-save symptom heavy builders like Divi/Elementor can hit on tight hosting/local-dev limits. No fixed “% faster” claim is made, since the real number depends on the site’s theme, other plugins, and hosting.
• New Delete Data on Uninstall toggle (Server Performance tab). On by default: deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen also removes its settings and the uploads/reloadify-reload folder. Turn it off to keep settings around for a later reinstall.
• Developer Mode now shows a live countdown (hh:mm:ss) to when it will auto-disable itself, and the auto-off window is now 12 hours (was 6).
• Fixed: the frontend could keep auto-reloading in a loop with no real change, if the page HTML itself was served from a cache (full-page cache plugin, host-level cache, or CDN) whose baked-in “last changed” value never caught up. The reloader no longer trusts that value for comparison — it now establishes its baseline from a live check on load instead. This also fixes a freshly opened tab sometimes missing the very next save until a manual refresh.
• Added a periodic admin-ajax.php cross-check alongside the lightweight static-file check, plus no-cache headers for the timestamp file, so a cached/stale timestamp can’t silently block reloads.
• The local-development-only opcache override (Server Performance tab) now genuinely writes the 3 PHP-startup-locked directives to php.ini, with an automatic backup, once explicitly confirmed — instead of only generating a copy-paste snippet.
• Added Bengali (bn_BD) translation for the entire settings dashboard and all admin-facing messages, bundled directly in this plugin’s languages folder — WordPress.org automatically loads it for Bengali-locale sites without any extra code needed, and it displays translated immediately rather than waiting on the community translation queue.
• Fixed two \u2019/\u2014 escape sequences that were being printed literally instead of as an apostrophe/dash in a couple of Server Performance messages (PHP single-quoted strings don’t interpret \u escapes).
• Code-quality fix: prefixed two global variables in uninstall.php flagged by the WordPress Coding Standards checker.

1.0.0

• Initial public release.
• Cross-browser, cross-window frontend reload — works with Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Oxygen, Beaver Builder, and the classic WordPress editor, in Chrome, Brave, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and UC Browser (including incognito/private).
• Reload now works on the homepage, archives, and any frontend page — not just the exact post being edited — via a single site-wide “last changed” clock.
• Choice of soft reload or cache-busting hard reload.
• Frontend polling checks a small static JSON file served directly by the webserver instead of booting WordPress on every check, for minimal overhead.
• Developer Mode is off by default and auto-disables after 6 hours as a safety net, since it’s the setting that adds ongoing load on a live site while active.
• A Server Performance panel that’s upfront about what a plugin can and can’t do: applies memory_limit, max_execution_time, and 3 of 6 opcache.* directives live; generates ready-to-paste php.ini / .htaccess snippets and offers a best-effort .user.ini/.htaccess write for the settings that genuinely require a real server-side change (upload/post size limits, realpath cache, and the 3 memory-sizing opcache directives).
• A local-development-only, explicitly-confirmed option to write the 3 truly PHP-startup-locked opcache directives directly to php.ini, with automatic backup.
• Modern tabbed settings dashboard with per-browser cards, live status, and a Sync from server action.
• Intelligent exclusion: never triggers a reload loop inside a page builder’s own editing canvas.