goldensw

Thanks for confirming! The 24-hour transient expiration makes sense.

In our case though, the main concern is what happens during that initial metadata retrieval with images that are no longer on the local server. As you confirmed, the plugin ends up calling getimagesize() on remote URLs and the HTTP requests can add up.

One thing I was wondering, since WordPress already stores image dimensions in _wp_attachment_metadata at upload time, could that be used as a fallback when the file isn’t locally available? That way sites using cloud storage wouldn’t need the remote HTTP calls at all.

Thanks for the detailed explanation about the filter! Very helpful!

I plan to have AJAX disabled globally in WPP settings because most of my popular posts lists are on cached pages where freshness isn’t critical. But I’d like to have the option enable AJAX on specific Elementor widgets where I need up-to-date data (for example, a “most read” list below article content where the page cache TTL is long).

Based on your example:

function customize_wpp_elementor_settings($shortcode_settings, $elementor_widget_id) {
    if ( $elementor_widget_id === '57a079f' ) {
        $shortcode_settings['ajaxify'] = 1;
    }
    return $shortcode_settings;
}
add_filter( 'wpp_elementor_widget_settings', 'customize_wpp_elementor_settings', 10, 2 );

Two questions: 1. Does this look correct? 2. Is the $elementor_widget_id the same ID shown in the editor (like 57a079f), or is it a different internal identifier?

Thank you! Greatly appreciate the support and the plugin! 🙂