Hans Konings

Good afternoon,

I’m puzzled by the behaviour of the plugin. Is it possible that the process of conversion continues AFTER it says it has completed the conversion task? Because the one photo that I remembered as converted to *.webp only and not to *.avif (confirmed by its absence in the dedicated upload folder on the server) is now available as *.avif. This means I cannot reproduce the error for testing. I am not allowed to post URL’s in this conversation, but if you look up my profile and search for kamafotos dot nl, it’s this photo of a duck:

../wp-content/uploads/2021/07/210710-amsterdam_amsteldijk-02.jpg

Now I’m able to save this file as 210710-amsterdam_amsteldijk-02.avif. Before I was offered this photo to save as 210710-amsterdam_amsteldijk-02.webp only. And this was not the result of another plugin, because yours is the only conversion plugin installed on kamafotos dot nl.

This FYI, because I promised to get back on this issue. But I think I’ll leave it at this. The plugin works fine and I accept your reasoning as to why the plugin works the way it does.

hk

You wrote:

How did you know that some images were not converted?

I found them by chance while going through my photos and randomly trying to save them. Then I saw that I could only save them as *.jpg or as *.webp, not as *.avif. When I investigated the photos in the Uploads folder I found that the *.avif versions were not there. Of one photo I remember which one it was. So I will start from there to see what’s happening. As I said, I will come back about this issue. First I must be able to reproduce this behaviour. I will also compare the amount of photos in the different folders to see if there are more jpg’s than avif’s. That should point me in the right direction.

I’ll take notice of the WordPress conventions that you pointed out. Meanwhile I’m trying to explain what I think would be good usability when it comes to plugins. Or what a user like me expects from a plugin. Based on my experience with many other plugins for WordPress.

hk

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Hans Konings.

Thank you Mateusz for your prompt reply and confirming my findings. You wrote:

Our goal is to create a simple and fast plugin. Why do you need such functionality? After installing the plugin, you convert all images with one click. Then newly added images are converted automatically. You don’t have to do anything with it. I guess it’s about making the plugin maintenance-free?

The reason I want this functionality is that after the batch conversion of about 5000 + images (plus all the smaller size images that WordPress adds) I found quite a few photos that were missed by the conversion. They were only converted to webp or not converted at all. That wouldn’t be much of a problem if I had the option to do it manually on a individual basis. So I’d love to see a button ‘convert this image with Converter for Media to WebP / AVIF’ in the Media Library. I think that would be a very useful button.

You also wrote:

If you want to temporarily disable a plugin, just deactivate it. You don’t need to uninstall it. If you uninstall a plugin, it means you no longer need it. A lot of plugins don’t clean up after themselves – that’s a huge problem in my opinion. That’s why we make sure that our plugin removes everything after it is uninstalled. For me, it’s not a bug, but a conscious advantage.

In fact I agree that deactivating the plugin would be by far the better option. But in this special case I had to debug a sudden technical issue on my website which could only be solved by installing a backup from a few weeks ago. This meant that your plugin had disappeared and I had to reinstall it to get back to where the website was before it broke down. I was unpleasantly surprised that the plugin didn’t continue its good work and I had to do the conversion all over again. For which I had to upgrade my subscription. Apart from your plugin I had to reinstall a few other plugins and there was no problem at all with those. They found the recent data in the database and continued to work fine.

All the best, Hans Konings

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Hans Konings.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Hans Konings.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Hans Konings.

The Flash clock is ticking again. I can’t tell you more, for it is the only Flash animation I have on my blog. I don’t think I can post URL’s here, so I can’t send you any proof of it. You may google ‘El rellotge català’ to see the clock ticking. Dutch page. Thanks for your quick response. Much appreciated. Yes, I rated 5 stars again.

Hello Arun,

I added the feature request only to explain the reasoning behind my 4 stars instead of 5 stars. But you’re right, the support forum would have been a more appropriate place. I will post the feature request over there. Meanwhile I had set the display option manually by changing “display”: “standalone” to “display”: “fullscreen” in a text editor and uploading ‘superpwa-manifest.json’ to the server. But apparently your plugin restores this automatically to “display”: “standalone”.

Thanks for your reply, I made a donation for your efforts so far, because I like the plugin. Keep up the good work.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Hans Konings.

Thanks for your reply, but I used version Pro 3.5.3 together with Content Views 1.8.1. Just got that one updated to 1.8.2 through WP’s Dashboard. Can the Pro version not be automatically updated through Dashboard? I do get the update notices by e-mail, but I never noticed any improvement in behaviour, so I gave up. However I like my outdated theme too much to change to a different, more modern theme.

Found the answer myself. The search link is in small print at the footer of this forum. Now can remove this topic? <g>