Thanks — this is the same underlying cause as the black-background PNG: your server’s AVIF encoder isn’t preserving the alpha (transparency) channel. WebP and icons can be transparent too, so they hit the same issue and come out with a black background. It’s not that the plugin is “breaking” them — the originals are untouched — it’s that the generated AVIF loses the transparency on that encoder.
To fix the two spots you mentioned (System composition, Inspection Camera) right now:
- Add those images to the exclusion list so they won’t be re-converted.
- Remove the already-generated broken AVIFs with the “Delete generated images (revert)” button on the settings page — your originals are never touched.
- Purge your cache / CDN.
After that they’ll serve the original transparent images again.
On your suggestions:
- Auto-detecting logos/icons and leaving them alone: yes, I agree, and that’s exactly what I’m building — the plugin will detect transparent images and skip them automatically, so this stops happening on its own. (I’ll be honest on one point: converting logos/icons to SVG isn’t something I can do reliably — you can’t accurately turn a raster image back into a true vector — so the right fix there is to skip them, not convert them.)
- Repairing a broken image from the media library without re-uploading: also a good idea. The revert button already does this in bulk today; a per-image version is on my list.
Proper transparency handling is my top priority for the next release. Thanks for the detailed reports — they’ve genuinely shaped what I’m working on.
Marco
I-PR AVIF Converter
