Pictures are gone with this plugin

Hi,

sounds weird, we never encounter this issue before.

Do you use a caching plugin?

Can you list all the activated plugins on your site so we can try to replicate the issue on our side please?

Did you configure some settings from SEO, Social page?

Currently I have the following plugins activated:

ActivityPub
Antispam Bee
Autoptimize
BEAF - Ultimate Before After Image Slider & Gallery
Complianz | GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent
Edit Author Slug
Envato Market
Herald Buddy
Hummingbird
Koko Analytics
Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block
Limit Login Attempts Reloaded
Maintenance
Meks Easy Ads Widget
Meks Easy Social Share
Meks Flexible Shortcodes
Meks Smart Author Widget
Meks Smart Social Widget
NextGEN Gallery
OMGF
Smush
Template Library and Redux Framework
WebSub (FKA. PubSubHubbub)
Wordfence Security
WP Mail SMTP
WP Twitter Auto Publish
WP-PostViews
WPS Hide Login
Yoast SEO

Yoast was inactive when I tested your plugin. The template I’m using is Herald.

Not sure what features I had enabled, I tried everything possible. I had also cleared the cache again and again and deactivated it in the meantime.

src=”data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==”

that looks like an placeholder image which is set by a lazyload solution (not Autoptimize though, which I’m the dev of). Hummingbird or Smush maybe?

@optimizingmatters yes, I will say the same as you. Especially since Autoptimize has never posed any compatibility issues ??

that looks like an placeholder image which is set by a lazyload solution (not Autoptimize though, which I’m the dev of). Hummingbird or Smush maybe?

But then it should always be found in the code imho. Without SEOPress I find src=”original image” in the code, with SEOPress activated this embedded GIF.

btw: LazyLoad ist activated in Smush only. Lazyload-image is an animated spinner gif, I already checked this. Base64-encoded this is much much more code then the few characters.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by xsized.

OK, looks like Smush is the cause after all. I did a search over all the files in the plugin directory and find the base64 code of the gif in the smush files. However, it irritates me that the problem only occurs when I have SEOPress active, otherwise never.

Can you share your Smush config by exporting the settings to a JSON file please?

You can do that from Smush, Settings, Configs, click on the wheel icon and choose Download.

Thanks

Her it is:

{
"id": 1672833166496,
"name": "current",
"description": "",
"config": {
"configs": {
"settings": {
"auto": true,
"lossy": false,
"strip_exif": true,
"resize": false,
"detection": true,
"original": false,
"backup": false,
"png_to_jpg": false,
"nextgen": false,
"s3": false,
"gutenberg": true,
"js_builder": false,
"cdn": false,
"usage": false,
"accessible_colors": false,
"keep_data": true,
"lazy_load": true,
"webp_mod": false
},
"lazy_load": {
"format": {
"jpeg": true,
"png": true,
"gif": true,
"svg": true,
"iframe": true
},
"output": {
"content": true,
"widgets": true,
"thumbnails": true,
"gravatars": true
},
"animation": {
"selected": "spinner"
},
"include": {
"frontpage": true,
"home": true,
"page": true,
"single": true,
"archive": true,
"category": true,
"tag": true,
"bafg": false
},
"footer": true,
"native": true,
"noscript": false
}
},
"strings": {
"bulk_smush": [
"Automatic compression - Active Super-Smush - Inactive Metadata - Active Image Resizing - Inactive Original Images - Inactive Backup Original Images - Inactive PNG to JPEG Conversion - Inactive"
],
"lazy_load": [
"Lazy Load - Active Media Types - jpeg, png, gif, svg, iframe Output Locations - content, widgets, thumbnails, gravatars Display And Animation - Selected: spinner Included Post Types - frontpage, home, page, single, archive, category, tag Load Scripts In Footer - Yes Native Lazy Load Enabled - Yes Disable Noscript - No"
],
"cdn": [
"Inactive"
],
"webp_mod": [
"Inactive"
],
"integrations": [
"Gutenberg Support - Active WPBakery Page Builder - Inactive Amazon S3 - Inactive NextGen Gallery - Inactive"
],
"settings": [
"Image Resize Detection - Active Color Accessibility - Inactive Usage Tracking - Inactive Keep Data On Uninstall - Active"
]
}
},
"plugin": "912164"
}

Did some more testing: The LazyLoad feature of Smush does not seem to work together with SEOPress. After disabling LazyLoad pictures are visible.

We have tried to replicate the issue with your JSON configuration file without success.

But this feature is probably the issue as we can see in the options page some settings related to a placeholder/gif to display before loading the images.

However, it sound weird to lazy load meta property in header tag.

We invite you to open a topic on Smush plugin forum too as we can’t act on this unfortunately.

Thank you

Created a new topic there, let’s see what happens.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/no-pictures-visible-with-lazyload-and-seopress/

Thank you!

One more point: Plugin Autoptimize seems to be involved. If I deactivate this one, then the issue is gone. Found out today.

First and foremost try to identify what is breaking things by just disabling CSS or JS or HTML or Image optimization (incl. lazyload). Based on that we can see what the next steps need to be ??

frank

Yeah, did it. If I deactivate “Combine JS-Files” (not sure if this is the original name, using German translation) everything looks good. Tested “Try-Catch-Block, but doesn’t helped.