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Flying Images

v2.4.14
by Gijo Varghese · 4.8 (26 reviews)

The complete solution for image optimization

5K+ active installs Updated Aug 26, 2024 Tested to 6.6.2 Requires PHP 5.6
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About Flying Images

Flying Images is a complete solution for image optimization with features like free unlimited CDN, on-the-fly image compression, WebP conversion, and responsive/adaptive images. They also offer support through an official forum and a Facebook group, and have premium products and free plugins available.

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Changelog

2.4.14

  • Increased DOM size
  • Updated shortcut links
  • Updated “Optimize more” tab
  • Removed “Support us” tab
  • Updated FAQ

2.4.13

  • Fix: FacetWP compatibility

2.4.11

  • Detect webp images

2.4.10

  • Disable inbuilt lazy loading introduced in WP 5.5
  • Security updates

2.4.9

  • [NEW] Support for WP Fastest Cache

2.4.8

  • [BUGFIX] Add f=auto to only images from Statically CDN

2.4.7

  • [BUGFIX] Add f=auto query string for WebP delivery

2.4.6

  • [NEW] Support for W3 Total Cache

2.4.5

  • [NEW] New thresholds for lazy loading margin (upto 3000px)

2.4.4

  • [BUGFIX] Inject JavaScript for lazy loading only when it’s enabled
  • [BUGFIX] Prevent adding Statically if image URL is already from Statically CDN
  • [UPDATE] Updated “Optimize More” tab for new plugins

2.4.3

  • [NEW] New URL for purging Statically CDN (https://statically.io/purge)

2.4.2

  • [BUGFIX] Compatibility with Brizy page builder

2.4.1

  • [NEW] More keywords to default lazy loading exclude list
  • [BUGFIX] Compatibility with exisiting lazy loading plugins

2.4.0

  • [NEW] Skip class “skip-lazy” and data attribute “data-skip-lazy” by default

2.3.10

  • [BUGFIX] Revert bug in last update

2.3.9

  • [BUGFIX] HTML detection failed when first line is empty

2.3.8

  • [BUGFIX] Exclude base64 images from adding compression

2.3.7

  • [BUGFIX] Warning while adding CDN to background style images

2.3.6

  • [REMOVED] Elementor background lazy loading due to buggy behaviour

2.3.5

  • [BUGFIX] Unable to save posts after the last update

2.3.4

  • [BUGFIX] Improved HTML detection in parser

2.3.3

  • [BUGFIX] Responsive images – Restrict srcset to max width of image
  • [BUGFIX] Responsive images – Don’t generate responsive images if width is unknown
  • [ADDED] “no-lazy” to default lazy load exclude list

2.3.2

  • [BUGFIX] Improved responsive images
  • [REMOVED] Experimental container width for responsive images

2.3.1

  • [BUGFIX] Background image URLs showing empty when compression is enabled

2.3.0

  • [NEW] Restrict image width to container instead of device width (experimental)
  • [BUGFIX] Repect “background:” or “background-image”
  • [BUGFIX] Better compatibility with gravatar and external images
  • [BUGFIX] Improved responsive images

2.2.6

  • [BUGFIX] REVERT BACK! Changing ‘background’ to ‘background-image’ for compatibility
  • [BUGFIX] CDN exclude now support background images inside style tags

2.2.5

  • [BUGFIX] Changing ‘background-image’ to ‘background’ for compatibility

2.2.4

  • [BUGFIX] Remove JS dependency for “Native only” lazy loading

2.2.3

  • [BUGFIX] Lazy load Elementor background images
  • [BUGFIX] Apply CDN to background images inside tags

2.2.2

  • [BUGFIX] Warning when lazy load or cdn exclude list is empty

2.2.1

  • [BUGFIX] CDN not working on relative paths
  • [BUGFIX] Removing quotes in background image URLs for compatibility with Oxygen

2.2.0

  • [NEW] Add CDN to WooCommerce dynamically injected thumbnails
  • [NEW] Purge CDN link
  • [BUGFIX] Fixed issue with double backslash
  • [UPDATE] Removed gravatar.com from default CDN exclude list

2.1.1

  • [UPDATE] Cross origin to Preconnect

2.1.0

  • [NEW] DNS-Prefetch and Preconnect to Statically CDN
  • [BUGFIX] Removes picture tags created by other plugins (like ShoprtPixel, WebP Express etc) for compatibility
  • [BUGFIX] Support relative URLs

2.0.0

  • Major update!
  • [New] Free CDN powered by Statically
  • [New] On the fly WebP
  • [New] On the fly image compression
  • [New] Lazy load backgroud images
  • [Updated] Responsive/Adaptive images
  • [Updated] Lazy loading method defaults to JavaScript only
  • [Updated] Bottom margin of lazy loading defaults to 500px
  • [Updated] Bottom margin now supports 0px to 1000px
  • [Updated] Renamed from “Flying Images” to “Flying Images by WP Speed Matters”
  • [New] Added ‘lazyloaded’ class to images when lazy loaded (only for JS based lazy loading)
  • [New] FAQ tab
  • [New] Support Us tab
  • [New] Optimize More tab

1.3.3

  • Bug fix – Change window.onload to DOMContentLoaded

1.3.2

  • Bring back option to set bottom margin
  • New lazy load method – JavaScript only

1.3.1

  • Improve HTML and XML detection (also fixes issues with Oxygen builder)

1.3.0

  • New feature: Add missing responsive images (srcset)
  • Bug fix: Warning on countable function

1.2.9

  • Bug fix – Prevent videos inside source tag from loading

1.2.8

  • Bug fix in last update

1.2.7

  • Bug fix for Jetpack integration and empty pages

1.2.6

  • Removed styling for JS disabled browsers, for compatibility with Swift Performance

1.2.5

  • Bug fix – Images loading multiple times when cache is disabled in Chrome

1.2.4

  • Prevent conflicts with NextGen gallery plugin

1.2.3

  • Added noscript tag for images (load images when JavaScript is disabled)

1.2.2

  • Exclude keywords now looks from parent node (useful if your images doesn’t have a class or anything unique)
  • Bug fix for picture tag (webp)

1.2.1

  • Improved lazy loading for dynamic content
  • Prevent parser from removing white spaces
  • Performance improvements

1.2.0

  • Lazy load images in picture tag (also fixes issues for webp)
  • Automatic bottom margin height (removed option for custom margin)
  • Performance improvements

1.1.2

  • Bug fix – Lazy load images in dynamically injected content

1.1.1

  • Support for Internet Explorer

1.1.0

  • Rewrote HTML parser (fix breaking sites)
  • Exclude images from lazy loading

1.0.1

  • Renamed plugin from Nazy Load to Flying Images
  • Typo fixes

1.0.0

  • Initial release

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