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1/ Version 1.6.6 of our Novashare plugin is live!
- Updated Mastodon share link to use their new official share workflow. This streamlines things by remembering the instance you connected to in your browser's local storage. 🧠
- Added new share and follow buttons for Gab.
- Added new novashare_share_link_target filter, which allows you to adjust the default target value (_blank or _self) for share button links. 🔗
- Made plugin UI styles adjustments in preparation for WordPress 7.
Two great new features in Chrome 145 DevTools. ⚡
1. New render blocking column.
2. Individual request throttling (enabled by default).
1/ Version 2.5.6 of our Perfmatters plugin is live!
Updated our lazy loading class to no longer add <noscript> tags. This results in a ~18% decrease in HTML code per image and a ~2% decrease in total HTML page size across the board! ⚡
Note: The perfmatters_lazyload_noscript filter can still be used to turn that behavior back on, although this shouldn’t be needed.
On February 26th, we're doing a deep dive into why we built a performance-first code snippet manager into Perfmatters and how you can take full advantage of it on your WordPress sites! ⚡
Shout-out to Kyle for putting this together.
https://theadminbar.com/events/code-snippets-are-slowing-down-your-website/
1/ Happy 2026 🎉, version 1.6.4 of our Novashare plugin is live!
- *New* share button for Mistral AI.
- Overhauled the meta box UI to be more consistent and improve selected image visibility. Many of you requested larger thumbnails to better reflect what will be shared on social, especially Pinterest.
- Changed the hidden Pinterest images to use image thumbnails for the src attribute instead of the full image to save on page load. ⚡
Version 2.5.5 of our Perfmatters plugin is live!
- New options to export code snippets (globally, individually, and bulk select) and import them to another site. 🚛
- New code snippets admin bar menu item that will show if a snippet is present.
More changes: https://perfmatters.io/docs/changelog/
You can now create and manage PHP, JS, CSS, and HTML code snippets from inside Perfmatters! We store and load code snippets using a flat-file method and directly integrate with all of our existing optimization options for the best performance. ⚡
See more here: https://perfmatters.io/docs/code-snippets/
Had a great chat with Lawrence on the WPBakery team! 🎙️
Some topics we discussed:
- Content marketing and branding/visibility.
- Is affiliate marketing more important now than ever?
- How AI is shifting/changing the market.
https://wpbakery.com/blog/excerpt-talks-brian-jackson-perfmatters/
Issue #49 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧
The fragility of the internet. 💥 Not everything needs to be smart.
https://newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-from-brian-issue-49
