DavidBrugge

@ autosofinterest

There is a lot of misinformation regarding jpeg compression and WordPress out there and I think the developers of this plugin are misinformed as well. Otherwise they are making false claims because there is not a way to actually turn off compression, just reduce the amount of compression to the least possible.

First of all, you cannot save a jpeg without applying at least some compression, even with a compression setting of 100. BTW, the compression levels go from 0 to 100, not 0% to 100%. You do not normally speak of compressing a jpeg to 90% compression or 90% files size.

WordPress is designed to resave your jpeg image on upload. It’s default compression setting is 90. You can change the setting to 100, which is what this plugin does, but because the jpeg is being resaved, it is still being compressed. Sometimes the file is smaller, but sometimes the file gets bigger. It depends on the subject matter of the image.

For the very best quality, you must upload your images in order to add them to the database and for them to show up in the media library. Then use your favorite FTP program to go to the wp-content/uploads/(year)/(month) and overwrite your original images. The FTP will not change the compression on upload and WP won’t know you did this behind its back (or care).

If you have viewed the compressed images on your browser after you added them to the library then you probably need to flush your browser’s cache in order for your new uploads to show up. Your browser does not know you put new versions on your server. Instead it will keep showing you the old version that it has stored in its cache.

Please note that what you are doing only applies to the full size image. WP also generates other size images based on your original. If you are a fanatic and want the optimal quality (and slower performance) for thumbnails and the other generated sizes, you need to generate your own images at these sizes and duplicate the naming conventions exactly before you overwrite them. But it’s doubtful that you can see any quality change on these smaller size images so its hardly worth it.

Hope this helps.

Users have been begging for this feature for ages.

In fact, the long going thread is marked resolved although the problem was never addressed. Mark (Wordfence author) commented early in the thread with the suggestion of blocking everyone that makes an attempt that is not recognized as a user.

It has been pointed out time and time again that this method penalizes those who make mistakes typing or who momentarily forget their username. This forces users, if they are not the only useer, to balance between security and usability. There should be no need for this.

I have to conclude that for some undisclosed reason, this is difficult to implement (I can’t imagine why that would be) or that Mark just doesn’t care.

I also have a personal correspondence with Mark, asking for this feature. He responded that he would look to adding it to a future update. That was many, many updates ago.

I started out as a huge fan of this product, bought multiple site licenses and talked it up at WP user’s group meetings. When I saw how many people were clamoring for this feature, I assumed that it would be just a release away, then another release, then another.

Now I’m pissed. I am sick and tired of the dozens and dozens of email alerts telling me that user ‘admin” at such and such IP has been blocked. I routinely scan my alerts for any of my client’s having problems accessing their sites. How to I spot an alert with essential information? If I limit the number of alerts, how do I know I won’t miss an important one.

This is such an easy bone to throw, it seems like Mark and company are too wrapped up in their success and in their development to concern themselves with trifling things like customer service.

I have rated it and recommended it highly to my WP users group.
I can see why your ratings are so high.

Next paycheck, I owe you a baseball book.

Ah ha!

The first examples had the numeral 1 within quotes.

Now it works like a charm.

Thanks ever so much!

David

If, others should come upon this post with the same question, how would one filter multiple columns?

Sorry, didn’t know that they were not connected.

Assuming that they were, I was testing from the search box on page.

Here’s the set up. This is for a church. It has Elders who are responsible for a dozen or so individuals and families. The assignments have been totally reworked and I want a way for members to go to the sight and find who their Elder is.

I have page on with a search form for visitors to enter their name. The form directs to a page with the table. I want the form to filter out for just the family name. This part works fine.

Members names in column 1, Assigned Elder in column 2, contact link in column 3.

But when the name is the same as one of the Elders, everyone of the names assigned to the Elder appears. For instance, if Mrs. Jones enters her name and there is an Elder named Jones, then the table shows two pages of names.

Not a big problem all in all, but not the elegant solution I want.

https://trinitymemphis.org/?page_id=5286

Humm,

Perhaps I’m not understanding how the filter_columns parameter works.

I have a three column table. I want to search a name and have the results show only the rows where the name matches column 1.

I have the shortcode[table_filter id=4 filter_columns="1" /] but when I enter names into the search box, I still get results from columns 2 and 3.

Am I implementing it wrong, or do I have a misunderstanding of the filter?

Thanks

My experience as an advertising copywriter let’s me understand that no matter how carefully you craft an explanation, there is always somebody that will misunderstand.

I read, and reread that page a number of times. It is only after you pointed me to it again that I caught on to what it was saying.

Sorry to trouble you on such a petty issue and thanks very much for your kind help.

For anyone else as slow as me who stumbles on this problem, You REPLACE the normal [table id=3 /] with [table_filter=3 /] on the page containing the table. This new shortcode will work the same as the other when no keyword is fed in the URL, but will filter for the codeword when table_filter=”codeword” is included in the URL..

David

Yes, both are activated and I have tested will all other plugins off.

I was under the impression that I didn’t need a shortcode when the Shortcode Filter from Get parameter plugin was active because it was using a $_Get=”table_filter” command.

My understanding is that, in combination with the Row Filtering plugin, that I could get the same results as feeding a filter word to the Row Filter, but instead include the keyword in the URL that directs to the page.

So, instead of using [table_ID=”3″ Filter=”keyword”] that I could use [table_ID=”3″] and send the key word appended to the end of the URL in the form &table_filter=”keyword”

I am appending using the ampersand (also tried with &) because the address already has the page ID in the URL.

Please help me understand where I got off the track.

My issue has been fixed.
I found, or rather my hosting provider found, that a cache plug-in had created a redirect to a new cache directory that it had created. Uninstalling the plug-in emptied removed the directory but did not remove the redirect.

Yes, all cleared. It appears that the plugin adds a rewrite_MOD that redirects image requests to a different directory on the server. Uninstalling I guess, removed all but the redirect. My hosting provider actually tracked this one down for me.

Thanks to all for your contributions

On a friends advice, I looked in the wp-config.php file and found the line:

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'www.sachimemphis.com'); // Added by W3 Total Cache

It was the only line that I could see different from the original.

I deleted the line and cleared my browser cache, but no improvement.

Humm. I thought that I had posted a reply, but I don’t see it. Here goes again.

Can you try posting an image with all the plugins turned off and after switching over to Twenty Eleven?

https://davidbrugge.com/images/sachi_screen_grab.jpg

Not 100% sure what this means – did you delete any files w3tc creates in the wp-content directory?

I deleted the wp-access and wp-include directories and uploaded fresh copies. I opened a fresh copy of wp-content on my desktop and uploaded the files to the wp-content folder with the transfer set to “overwrite” so that non-core files would be preserved.

I believe aside from deactivating w3tc, you need to ensure a clean .htaccess, and remove the cache file in wp-content

I checked the .htaccess and it is empty. I did a search in the wp-content folder for and W3 or cache related files.
There is a php file in the root of the wp-content folder for the W3 plugin’s settings. I renamed the extension to .xphp to make it inoperable. All of the settings in THAT file indicate that the browser cache is turned off.
https://davidbrugge.com/images/ftp_screen_grab.jpg

Thanks for the suggestion, but that’s one of the first things I did.

Obviously I missed that.

Thanks for being gracious about it. The real laugh is my reminding sayan162 to make sure javascript was working. I point out the basics to someone else and forget about them, (and ignore the reminder from you) myself.

So, all is well. I can stop panicking. Subject closed. I’ll see you in the forums.

Thanks!

sayan162, I hope this is able to help you.