Alex Dunae

@rupesh23 — that’s how it’s meant to work. Since we can do anything about Smush.it, the goal is to stop the plugin from slowing down your own site whenever Smush.it is overloaded.

@rastarr — I think Smush.it must be rate-limiting things. All my attempts end up the same as your. It’s the only thing that makes sense….

@ronavroberts that means that the Smush.it service timed out — you can manually enable it again in Media > Settings.

@fredgorski — By default it will wait 6 hours before trying again, so everything uploaded in that time period will need to be manually smushed. I think that timeout might be a bit extreme — maybe an hour would be more appropraite.

Definitely report any other issues that crop up.

Hi there — I saw this minutes after I released the 1.6.0 update. I’ve made the fix (can’t believe it wasn’t already checking for images, actually) and it will be out in the next version.

Cheers,
Alex

A new update is now available, details are here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-http-error-on-image-upload/page/2?replies=34#post-2846511

A new update is now available, details are here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-http-error-on-image-upload/page/2?replies=34#post-2846511

A new update is now available, details are here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-http-error-on-image-upload/page/2?replies=34#post-2846511

(Thanks Matrix for all your replies in the forums — it’s very much appreciated)

A new update is now available: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-http-error-on-image-upload/page/2?replies=34#post-2846511

(Thanks Eugen for jumping into the forums here — much appreciated)

Hi there — I’ve posted an update here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-http-error-on-image-upload/page/2?replies=34#post-2846511

A new update is now available: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-http-error-on-image-upload/page/2?replies=34#post-2846511

Check out the 1.6.0 revision. Further details are here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-http-error-on-image-upload/page/2?replies=34#post-2846511

Hi there — I’ve posted an update here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-http-error-on-image-upload/page/2?replies=34#post-2846511

Hi all,

I just released version 1.6.0. While it doesn’t do anything about the Smush.it service itself, it does add some logic to detect when Smush.it is having issues and disables auto-smushing for a few hours. You can configure automatic smushing in Media > Settings and, as always, can manually or bulk smush images as you like.

I’ve had a few interesting exchanges with other developers about adding some other compression services (both on the server and remote). That’s the next step in taking the load of Yahoo!’s Smush.it.

Let me know in these boards how the new version works for you.

Cheers,
Alex

It seems like it’s necessary. This isn’t the first time Smush.it has gone down (though it has been fairly reliable for the past six months).

Hi all — I’m the plugin developer.

I’ve posted some notes in another thread about the latest issues: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-http-error-on-image-upload?replies=13#post-2794083