Autoptimize conflicts with WP Beaver Builder

as with any advanced javascript-based solution (which beaver builder clearly is), you’ll have to find the right JS to exclude from optimization.

chances are beaver-builder loads wordpress’ native media manager to access the media library. i’ve been looking into what the media manager adds (a huge amount of JS, inline and external) and how to optimize that, but I haven’t been able to tame that monster yet. so if beaver builder uses media manager api, my advise would be exclude that entire page from optimization using the autoptimize_filter_noptimize-filter (see autoptimize_helper.php_example for an example of how to exclude a page based on the URL).

frank

nah, you misunderstood; exclude only those pages that have the media-library included (until I have time to tame media-manager’s JS, if indeed beaver builder uses that) 🙂

frank

ah, it’s me who misunderstood actually; you want to be able to use Beaver builder yourself to add images, after which your visitors will see that image, but won’t be able to add images themselves? something like that?

two options (as also explained earlier in this thread);
1. add ?ao_noptimize=1 to the URL of the page you’re going to edit
2. exclude pages that have beaver builder active (i.e. for you, the administartor, not for visitors) from being optimized based on the presence of ‘fl_builder’ in the URL, using the API like this:

add_filter('autoptimize_filter_noptimize','beaver_noptimize',10,0);
function beaver_noptimize() {
	if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'fl_builder')!==false) {
		return true;
	} else {
		return false;
	}
}

frank

you could add this either in your (child-)theme’s functions.php (but updates to your theme could overwrite this) or in a new plugin in wp-content/plugins (where you could use autoptimize_helper.php_example as an … example 😉 )

frank