[Plugin: WP Smush.it] HTTP Error on image upload.

@zepolo not compatible in what way? Did you get an error?

@alex Dunae.When I press the button of Bulk Smush It. I found this sentences “Automatic smushing has been disabled temporarily due to an error. Operation timed out after 20000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received”

and some of images are not smushed automatically, it’s different from previous version (1.5), the images are smushed automatically !!!

How to resolve this problem ??

Thanks, Best Regards

@elling : It’s a recent issue that yahoo smush.it service’s unstable, dealing with API key used by the plugin, it’s seem that Yahoo in particular time has throttling the request made by the plugin. It’s mean that The error is on Yahoo smush.it service side, not on the plugin itself. And the developer Alex Dunae has released the new update of the plugin that the ability to detec wheter the Smush.it service is down or otherwise’s included on its feature.

@alex Dunae: This is great plugin, if the Yahoo API works. However, an essential function such as image upload in a CMS should never be dependent on an external API to work. An external API should never break important functions.
You could be fixed pretty easily by running all external calls within an try…catch statement(this is best practice to do at all times!).

This has caused a lot of headache for me and my colleagues. We had to take time of out busy schedule to debug this and then fix this for all of our clients by manually deactivating the plugin for all of them.

This is a great plugin that we want to use and I want to thank you for sharing it. I would really appreciate if you could implement this fix in the near future.

my website still have this error. how i can fix it

Hello, first thing’s first, thank you for developing this plugin.

I have no idea why yahoo want the images processed on their server. This seems like an odd method to force upon everyone.
I can understand that this would be useful for users on shared hosting, but for those of us with our own servers, we have the resources to process all of the images on our own server.

As a website owner, I am extremely concerned over the following terms which you must agree to to use the smush it service:

By submitting your image to the Service for optimization, you represent and warrant that:

b) You have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your images to use such person’s image or likeness in your image for use in the manner contemplated in these TOU;

So that means you can not use it on a site where the photos are of public areas which will include pepople who have not signed a consent release agreement.

d) You will not use the service in a manner that exceeds reasonable request volume, constitutes excessive or abusive usage, as determined by Yahoo! in its sole discretion.

So, yahoo can ban me if I use it too much. How to they determine this? Is it based on IP address or domain? If it is IP address, users of systems such as cloudflare or users with shared hosting could easily be banned when they have not submitted all of the images themselves as the IP address will be shared between many, many users.

4) You retain ownership to your images submitted to the Service. However, by submitting your images to Yahoo!, you hereby grant Yahoo! and its affiliates the following worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable and transferable rights and licenses: To temporarily host, cache, store, or modify your images to appropriate media formats, standards or mediums as part of the Service.

So, to use the service, I have to grant yahoo a license that essentially allows them to do whatever they want with my photos. While I understand they need a license to store it on their server even if only for the processing time, the license that they are actually demanding would allow them to sell my images, use them elsewhere or do whatever they desire to do with them. If any of them are used elsewhere, the privacy of users who have family blogs could be violated. For businesses, it could mean content dilution if the images appear elsewhere on the internet.

The terms further state that yahoo are not held liable or responsible for any damages or loss of earnings. This is absolutely standard for almost any business. However, what is concerning is that when this is coupled with #4, it means that should yahoo use your images in some way that negatively impacts you (and they could even make money from it), then you have almost zero comeback.

https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/smush_it/smush_it-4378.html

Is there any reason why yahoo want it done on their server? I assume that the process is not unique to yahoo and as such can be reproduced on the server side. I have started converting the images on my pc so that they are already reduced in size before uploading them.

Also, I wanted to point out that while this plugin is awesome, it only works on images in the media library, it would be lovely if it could search the plugins and themes folders for images that can also be improved upon as that is usually where the majority of images are from as they form the design and are on every single page of the site.

Sorry it’s such a long reply, I just wanted to mention a few of the things that I do not think many people realise and try to see how the plugin can be improved upon.

I know there have been plenty of issues with people being not able to use the Smush.it service, but I’m curious if anyone HAS been able to use it?. Particularly in the last month or so. In the past month or two, I haven’t been able to smush a single image, regardless of when I try (even in the middle of the night).

Is the service 100% down now?

I really need to figure out a solution or alternative to this. I was interested in CW Image Optimizer, but you need to have a Linux server, And know Linux to install it. Since I don’t know Linux, the install instructions looked like Greek to me.

It works sometimes for me. Trial and error and usually better in the early mornings, here in Australia so maybe it’s just getting smashed continually and they have way too few resources to cope.
Pretty rubbish situation but for those of us without access to install the other server side utilities, Smush.It is all I got ??

I too have had massive issues with the service. While I have been able to smush some images, it has hardly been worth the effort due to the time involved in playing with it just to get it to smush a few images.

Unfortunately, yahoo has come up with a great idea and then implemented it in an horrific and counter-productive manner.