can you share the URL of you site so I can have a look happyday25?
Thanks for the quick response! I sent you the link through the contact page on the Autoptimize website, hopefully that’s ok. Since forum posts can’t be edited after submitting, I was concerned about linking it here and having bots grab it.
OK, got your mail, nothing immediately jumps out, but this looks like a plugin (or theme) conflict. Could you try disabling (and re-enabling) plugins one at a time (and if needed temporarily switch themes briefly) to try to identify the culprit?
re. bots; if you add URL’s at topic creation time under “Link to the page you need help with” then bots won’t be able to grab it as those links are only visible to logged in users 🙂
Thank you for the tip about linking the page at the topic creation time!
I am not able to disable all plugins on the site but was able to disable all performance settings in the theme (there were no initial changes to the theme when the CSS aggregation stopped working). Disabled/completely removed WP total cache, disabled Asset Cleanup and EWWW Image Optimizer plugins and made sure server caching was cleared after every change. The only other plugin that could cause interference might be my security plugin (BulletProof) which modifies the .htaccess file, does Autoptimize touch .htaccess though?
Any other tests I could try? The render blocking CSS is really killing the site speed.
I should also add that I recently migrated to an nginx server, would this have any impact?
the .htaccess and the fact you’re on nginx are very unlikely to have to do with the issue, but I’m afraid any plugin could interfere happyday25; almost all AO’s optimizations can be disabled through the API and some plugins (and likely themes) sometimes do (for reasons I might not fully agree with, but still ..)
Hmm ok, I’m not sure what else to try. I disabled all plugins/clear caches (except woocommerce plugin and theme which have not changed since it AO quit working) but still nothing. When I check the AO cache folder, JavaScript files are in the js folder and being actively updated but the css folder is empty other than index.html.
might the theme have received an update which somehow changed things happyday25?
It appears to have started working again after making updates to other parts of the site (not what part was affecting it).
Thank you for the help!
ah, a bit weird, but happy all is fine now happyday25 🙂
feel free to leave a review of the plugin and support here!
a happy 2022 to you!
frank
