Hi,
It looks like your using autoptimize on your site. Did you have both plugins enabled at the same time?
Do you have other magnification plugins installed at the same time?
Do you know if there were errors in your browser console or css/js files that weren’t loading correctly?
I’m wondering if there is a conflict that is causing this to happen. MMR shouldn’t be messing with any images so I’m a bit confused as to why this would be happening to you.
Very late last night I wanted to find out if another minify plugin would have the same effect, so I installed autoptimize, but that didn’t impact the images. No, they were never running together, and Merge+ was the only one installed at the time it happened.
Okay, in browser console there are two errors. Tracing back with grep, the code all came from the EmbedPress plugin. After deactivating (and that’s all I did), the code was gone. So I turned minify+ off/on which emptied your mmr directory of caches, and all should be well.
However, minify+ stayed off. If I hit activate, it disappears from the list & I have to refresh the page to see it again, and it’s not active. Nope, this may not be your problem, as other plugins are showing other weird behaviors, and I’m seeing deleted plugins momentarily popping back when I know they don’t exist in the plugins directory.
So, unless you have a magic solution, let’s close this thread, while I ponder maybe restoring a backup. Thanks for responding.
That is very strange. I would try re-installing WordPress to make sure none of its files have become corrupt. Do you have reliable hosting? It sounds like the hard disk might be failing.
In the last few days I’ve been evaluating a number of caching and minifying plugins. I suspect one of them trashed some DB entries. That’s about the only way I’d see a plugin listed but not existing on disk, and then changing if I reload the page. I have a backup from just before then, so I’ll try that first. The host is Bluehost and I haven’t seen any other problem indications, so hopefully the easy solution will work.
Ok, no worries. Let me know if you want me to have another look at it.
Okay, here’s what actually (maybe) happened…
WordPress Popular Posts caused a syntax error when merge+ collected some files from there. (repeatable)
That error caused a script error in collected Embedpress scripts, with the browser then showing two errors.
One (or more) of the plugins I had evaluated copied jpegs -> webp.
Without that plugin present, webp was no longer permitted.
However, the previous script errors caused webp to be used, but only when your plugin was active.
And, that’s why none of the images showed, anywhere.
On top of that, some plugin had trashed a little DB, so the WP dashboard wasn’t really stable, that having nothing to do with the above issue.
Once I restored the system it was firmly back to jpegs, so the images were stable over those two errors.
The errors no longer affected performance.
With WordPress Popular Posts removed, there are no more errors.
And your plugin is working just fine.
Unfortunately, I apparently lost some of my fine-tuning in the process. I had previously managed a PageSpeed Insights mobile rating of 99. But with all this grief I don’t know all that I did to get there…
Wow, thanks for the update. I’m glad its back to normal!
I hope you can get your score back up.
