Wrong favicon forced by Shortpixel

nickdesignz
(@nickdesignz)

3 years, 6 months ago

I am using this plugin since a while, everything was great and working. But since a while, the CDN Shortpixel is forcing it’s own Shortpixel Favicon in my websites, without permission.

So I had to deactivate compress pictures via autoptimize, otherwise I have a shortpixel favicon on my sites. This is really really not acceptable.

Thanks

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Plugin Author Optimizing Matters
(@optimizingmatters)

3 years, 6 months ago

Optimization of the icon files was added in AO 2.7.4 Nick, it can be disabled with this code snippet;

add_filter( 'autoptimize_filter_imgopt_linkicon', '__return_false');

But the fact you saw the SP favicon is very unexpected, I would love to look into that if you would be OK to re-enable the option?

frank

Thread Starter nickdesignz
(@nickdesignz)

3 years, 6 months ago

Hi Frank,

where do I need to add this?

You can check it by yourself, this is the shortpixel url in my frontend: https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_180,h_180/https://westend-bestattungen.de/favicon.ico which shows the SP Favicon.

The original URL of my favicon: https://westend-bestattungen.de/favicon.ico shows the correct favicon.

Strange, when I change the favicon it doesn’t show up the new one in frontend, just in my backend I can see the new one

Patrick

Plugin Author Optimizing Matters
(@optimizingmatters)

3 years, 6 months ago

hmm, looks like I forgot to check image format when doing favicons, .ico files should not be sent to shortpixel to begin with, I’ll fix in an AO update.

re. the code snippet; the easiest & safest solution is using the code snippets plugin.

Plugin Author Optimizing Matters
(@optimizingmatters)

3 years, 6 months ago

Have you been able to test/ use the code snippet Patrick?

Plugin Author Optimizing Matters
(@optimizingmatters)

3 years, 6 months ago

In the meanwhile I added a favicon to my own site and I AO does not put the .ico file on shortpixel in my case Patrick;

I do see you also have png-favicons, but those are successfully optimized, e.g. https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_64,h_64/https://westend-bestattungen.de/favicon-64.png

So as .ico files are normally not put on the Shortpixel CDN and as .png icon files are successfully optimized in your case, I’m afraid we will have to dig deeper, starting with enabling image optimization again?
simonjm
(@simonjm)

3 years, 5 months ago
Hello, I have a very similar problem. I am using the AO pluggin and my favicon has also recently been replaced by the ShortPixel favicon, but only when I’m not logged-in. Weirdly, my correct Favicon re-appears once I log-in. My website is: https://www.pencilsketchportraits.co.uk my Favicon is: https://www.pencilsketchportraits.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/favicon.ico. I’m not very ‘technical’ but I tried installing Code Snippet plugin and pasting in the code you suggested Frank, but no change. Any suggestions?
Many thanks, Simon.
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Plugin Author Optimizing Matters
(@optimizingmatters)

3 years, 5 months ago

wow .. I’m stumped, both because I cannot deny the favicon is served by shortpixel (it shouldn’t and I don’t understand why it does, yet) and because the code snippet doesn’t work!

can you make a screenshot of the screen with code snippet you added, upload it somewhere and post the link to the screenshot here so I can see if anything might be preventing it from working?

Plugin Author Optimizing Matters
(@optimizingmatters)

3 years, 5 months ago

review comments might not be the best way to proceed troubleshooting this bizarre bug, can you contact me via the contact page at https://blog.futtta.be/contact @simonjm/ @nickdesignz ?

simonjm
(@simonjm)

3 years, 5 months ago

Hi there, I’ve messaged you on your blog – I look forward to hearing your progress.
WebOptima
(@wpoptima)

3 years, 5 months ago
Just wanted to report that I had the same issue, the Shortpixel put its own favicon instead of mine.
I just solved the problem by adding the code snippet you provided above to my child theme’s functions.php.
So, thanks for the AO plugin and thanks for your help 🙂
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Plugin Author Optimizing Matters
(@optimizingmatters)

3 years, 5 months ago

Still quite the mystery I’m afraid, would love to get to the bottom of this, can you share your site’s URL wpoptima ?

WebOptima
(@wpoptima)

3 years, 5 months ago

@optimizingmatters
Sure, it’s weboptima.eu
Now I disabled the code temporarily and it shows the Shortpixel’s icon again:
https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_32,h_32/https://weboptima.eu/favicon.ico

I can keep it that way for a day or two, so you can check this issue.
If you would need access, you can contact me via the website contact form.

Plugin Author Optimizing Matters
(@optimizingmatters)

3 years, 5 months ago

OK, can you download the beta zip-file from Github here and install that instead of the current 2.7.8 to see if that fixes the issue (as per this code change)?
WebOptima
(@wpoptima)

3 years, 5 months ago
I did, and yes, it works! Good job!

The WP now offers me an upgrade from 2.6.0-beta-4 to 2.7.9-beta-0.
Should I upgrade, or should I wait for the regular version?
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Plugin Author Optimizing Matters
(@optimizingmatters)

3 years, 5 months ago

2.6.0-beta-4 is pretty ancient and does not have the optimization of images in <link tags anyhow so if you don’t have 2.7.9-beta-0 as the currently active version (which is what the beta.zip should have been), then indeed upgrade to 2.7.9-beta-0 yes so we can make sure the favicon.ico image is not optimized 🙂