Ok so old version doesn’t work either. Maybe I should have left my images to batch processbefore updating 1.9.6. I might have to do a roll back to a previous wordpress backup though i will loose some data.
Please don’t roll back your WordPress backup or downgrade — you won’t lose any data, and a rollback won’t fix it anyway. This one is on me, and I’ve already shipped the fix.
What happened: in 1.9.9 I added self-healing cron scheduling. The unintended side effect was that whenever the cron event is registered, the plugin’s shutdown-based background processing got switched off — it assumed “cron is scheduled” meant “cron is running.” On a setup like yours, where WP-Cron shows as scheduled but isn’t actually being executed, that left nothing to process the queue. That’s exactly why it shows WP-Cron active with no errors, yet nothing converts. And downgrading didn’t help because the scheduled event stays in WordPress’s database regardless of plugin version, so the old version hit the same condition.
The reason a rollback won’t help is the same reason you don’t need one: it’s not a data problem, it’s which code path runs.
I’ve just released v1.9.10. It makes the background fallback always active as a safety net, so the queue processes regardless of whether WP-Cron actually fires on your host. Please update to 1.9.10 — no need to clear anything or restore a backup. After updating, just load a few pages on the site (the fallback runs after the page is served) and the queue should start draining again. Your existing data and settings are untouched.
Apologies for the disruption — this was my regression, and thank you for the detailed report that made it easy to pinpoint.
Marco
I-PR AVIF Converter
OK cool. I truly appreciate work done. I will test it as soon as my restore is complete. Now I wish I never unistalled. So, I will be installing the new version to test.
and for the AVIF display issue, I am on hostinger litespeed server. SInce the other plugins worked out of the box ( litespeed image conversion, smush,compressx) I thought I never needed to add anything. I will be testing that.
