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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 30/09/2026

Issue #60 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 I really wish Mac had an OS-level equalizer. 🔊 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 09/09/2026

1/ Version 2.6.8 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* highly requested safe mode option to disable all performance optimizations sitewide (excluding security/code snippets). 🚧 - *New* inline excluded stylesheets option to automatically inline stylesheets excluded from remove unused CSS. ⚡

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 24/08/2026

Version 1.6.9 of our Novashare plugin is live! We've been traveling this month, so a smaller maintenance update to fix/improve a few things. - Fixed an issue where custom button and icon colors on the Share Buttons block were not applied when selected from the theme palette. 🎨

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 11/08/2026

Version 2.6.7 of our Perfmatters plugin rolled out last week. - Removed the Script Manager MU Mode dependency on pluggable.php to avoid conflicts with SMTP and other plugins that override core pluggable functions. This makes MU Mode a lot more reliable. 👍

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 30/07/2026

1/ Version 1.6.8 of our Novashare plugin is live! - *New* custom option for link shortening. You can now use any link shortener of your choice, such as Short, Rebrandly, PrettyLinks, YOURLs, etc. If they have any API/function, you should be able to hook it up. 🎉

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 30/06/2026

Version 2.6.5 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* code snippet URL-based conditions for path contains, path equals, and path regex. This enables every possible combination. 👨‍🔬

Perfmatters code snippets URL-based conditions

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 26/06/2026

AI either knows me too well or is roasting me. 😜

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 18/06/2026

Version 1.6.7 of our Novashare plugin is live! - *New* share and follow buttons for MeWe. - *New* follow buttons for Cash App, Ko-fi, and Venmo. - *New* share button window options for button color and icon color. You can now set a specific color scheme throughout the entire workflow.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 29/05/2026

Issue #56 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 WordPress 7.0 - Things you might have missed 🔍 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 28/05/2026

Version 2.6.3 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* option to select the editor theme for code snippets and global scripts. 🎨 10 themes included (Ayu Dark, Ayu Mirage, Dracula, Eclipse, Idea, Material, Monokai, Neo, etc.). You can also upload a custom CodeMirror 5 theme stylesheet.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 30/04/2026

Issue #55 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 My thoughts on EmDash, Cloudflare's "successor" to WordPress? 🤔 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 29/04/2026

Version 2.6.2 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! *New* Automatically optimize and lazy load Elementor Atomic YouTube elements and legacy video widgets when Perfmatters iframe lazy loading is turned on. YouTube preview thumbnails are also supported, as well as Elementor image overlays if set. ⚡

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 28/04/2026

Excited that we finally acquired the perfmatters.com domain (after a decade of trying). 🎉 We'll continue using perfmatters.io for the time being. But things may change down the road. A redirect is now in place. ⤴️

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 10/04/2026

- Fixed an issue where the inline stylesheet fallback was not always converting relative URLs correctly if certain characters were present in the string. perfmatters.io/docs/changel...

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 13/03/2026

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.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 13/02/2026

Two great new features in Chrome 145 DevTools. ⚡ 1. New render blocking column. 2. Individual request throttling (enabled by default). developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-...

Render blocking column in Chrome DevTools

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 28/01/2026

*New* feature to completely disable Perfmatters code features using the PERFMATTERS_DISABLE_CODE constant. ⛔ - Added new perfmatters_cdn_url filter along with new helper methods in the CDN class. - Added additional logic to add an auto value to lazy loaded images sizes attributes when needed. 🖼️

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 28/01/2026

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! ⚡

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 01/01/2026

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.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 12/12/2025

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: perfmatters.io/docs/changel...

Code snippets bulk select and individual export

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 20/11/2025

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: perfmatters.io/docs/code-sn...

Perfmatters code snippet optimizations and conditions

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 22/10/2025

Version 1.6.3 of our Novashare plugin is live! - *New* AI share buttons for Claude and Google AI, which link to a prompt that will summarize the shared post’s content. 🤖 - *New* novashare_ai_network_text filter. Allows you to adjust the text that is passed through to an AI network prompt.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 29/08/2025

Issue #47 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 The healthcare system in the US is a joke. 🏥 brianleejackson.substack.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 29/08/2025

When folks ask me if they should use WordPress or another platform for their business... 🙃

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 27/08/2025

The new Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model is fun to play with. 😂

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 26/08/2025

Version 1.6.2 of our Novashare plugin is live! - *New* AI share buttons for ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity, which link to a prompt that will summarize the shared post’s content. 🤖 - *New* follow button for Nextdoor. - Updated Nextdoor brand colors. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 (1/3)

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 16/07/2025

Version 2.4.7 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* support to set the Perfmatters license key via wp-config.php using the PERFMATTERS_LICENSE_KEY constant. 🔑 This has been highly requested from our agency clients. - *New* perfmatters_fetch_priority filter. (1/4)

Perfmatters license key in wp-config.php

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 11/07/2025

There are times when I can relate. 😅

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 30/06/2025

Version 1.6.1 of our Novashare plugin is live! - Refactored specific portions of the main frontend stylesheet. We were able to reduce the CSS file size by an additional 7.69% (now under 2.5 KB)! ⚡ Recommend clearing all cache layers after updating to take advantage of the speed gains. (1/4)

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 18/06/2025

Version 2.4.6 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* advanced preload option to enable Cloudflare Early Hints (BETA) for Perfmatters preloads, along with controls to limit which file types will have early hint link headers sent. (1/7)

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 08/05/2025

Version 2.4.4 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* exclude leading option for lazy loading CSS background images. This allows you to more quickly and broadly target containers and then automatically exclude a hero CSS background image from lazy loading. ⚡ (1/5)

Exclude leading background images from lazy loading

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 08/05/2025

On June 19th, I'll be doing a website performance AMA! ⚡🚀 Got something you want to ask me? Submit your questions and sign up for the event here: theadminbar.com/events/websi... Big thanks to @theadminbar.com for putting this together.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 06/05/2025

Big changes are coming to PageSpeed Insights. Lighthouse is moving to performance insight audits. 😮🔥 - ETA is October 2025. 🗓️ - There is a switcher in the meantime to get used to things. - Some audits are being renamed while others are being removed. developer.chrome.com/blog/moving-...

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 15/04/2025

Version 2.4.3 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! *New* Speculative Loading options for sites running WordPress 6.8 or higher. You can change the mode and eagerness. ⚡ - We are deprecating Instant Page for anyone running WordPress 6.8 or higher. (1/2)

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 11/04/2025

Version 1.6.0 of our Novashare plugin is live! -*New* share button support for the Nextdoor network. 🏠 -*New* total share count and network share count options for the share button section with additional frontend styles to display the total share count at the top of the share window. (1/2)

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 05/03/2025

Version 1.5.9 of our Novashare plugin is live! - *New* location follow button (great for Google/Apple maps, location pages, etc.) 🗺️ Remember, you can also add your own custom buttons, meaning unlimited possibilities. (1/5)

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 25/02/2025

Great news! As expected, Speculative Loading is coming to WordPress core. Even sooner than I thought. ⚡ They will most likely default to "prefetch/conservative." So we might add a toggle in Perfmatters to easily swap that to "prerender/moderate." 👍

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 07/02/2025

Version 2.3.9 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* perfmatters_preloads_array filter. Gives you access to the preloads data array for use in custom integrations. 👨‍🔧 - *New* perfmatters_minify_threshold filter. (1/5)

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 29/01/2025

Version 1.5.8 of our Novashare plugin is live! - *New* Added a show labels control to the follow buttons block. - Updated all blocks to API version 3 to support rendering the block inside the post editor iframe. 💻 - Fixed multiple deprecated UI element warnings showing in the block editor. (1/3)

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 10/01/2025

It's been one of those days. ☕😅🤦‍♂️

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 01/01/2025

Version 2.3.7 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - Removed unnecessary documentWrite handling function from delay JS inline script to reduce the size by over 8%. ⚡ - Updated admin bar menu UI to show clear all used CSS everywhere, instead of just in the backend. (1/6)

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 23/12/2024

Great post from @programmingart.bsky.social on some things that would be great to have in Chrome DevTools. ⚡ The UI changes (showing preloads, fetch, LCP element, defer, etc.)... 💯 @debugbear.com is great in this regard. calendar.perfplanet.com/2024/top-8-t...

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 20/12/2024

Half the fun of AI is just trying all the new tools. Can't even keep up with the innovation. 🚀 pika.art is free through December 22nd.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 03/12/2024

Awesome, Kinsta just rolled out PHP 8.4. ⚡ Looking forward to seeing some benchmarks on this. 🤓 Let the extensive testing begin! #webperf

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 22/11/2024

Version 2.3.6 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! *New* local Google Font option to limit subsets. In our tests, we saw an 80% decrease in the font CSS size. 🔥 *New* local Google font option to change the print method (file or inline). (1/4)

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 14/11/2024

Had a great time discussing WooCommerce and optimization with Marcel and Mike on the Do the Woo podcast. ⚡🎙️ dothewoo.io/behind-the-c...

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 25/10/2024

Version 1.5.6 of our Novashare plugin is live! *New* feature that lets you highlight text and easily share it to supported social networks. 🔥 - Adjusted aria-label attributes to be more specific to element actions for accessibility. (1/3)

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 27/09/2024

Issue #36 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 The importance of taking time to recharge with family. 🔋 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 31/07/2024

Issue #34 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 "Perfect is the enemy of good." newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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