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Every GeneratePerf release and what changed.

Every GeneratePerf release and what changed. Installed sites receive new versions from their Updates screen.

3.1.2 – 2026-09-23

Security: declare the Update URI header so wordpress.org can never serve a same-slug plugin as a GeneratePerf update
Enhancement: add a « Pause off-screen animations » visual feature: any element with the pause-offscreen class only animates while it is visible in the viewport (IntersectionObserver), with prefers-reduced-motion honoured
Enhancement: add 20 variable fonts with calibrated fallbacks: Nunito, Nunito Sans, Roboto Condensed, IBM Plex Sans, Inter Tight, Sora, Public Sans, Google Sans, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, Mozilla Text, Source Serif 4, Newsreader, Fraunces, Roboto Slab, Crimson Pro, Faustina, EB Garamond, Alegreya, Petrona and Stack Sans Notch
Enhancement: add a « Clean uninstall » advanced option that deletes every GeneratePerf setting, cache and data when the plugin is deleted; never included in settings exports
Enhancement: move the updater to the update_plugins hostname hook, so update checks run at WordPress’ own cadence instead of on every read of the update transient
Enhancement: auto-updates can now be enabled for GeneratePerf, and the native « View details » link appears on the Plugins screen even when no update is pending
Enhancement: remember a failed update-server call for 10 minutes instead of retrying on every admin page, and re-check immediately when a license key is saved
Enhancement: show incompatible updates with their WordPress or PHP requirement instead of hiding them
Enhancement: preload the featured image through wp_preload_resources, earlier in <head>, with fetchpriority high and the displayed size
Enhancement: prioritize the first content image with WP_HTML_Tag_Processor, without re-encoding the content or injecting a DOCTYPE
Enhancement: prime post, term and thumbnail caches for related posts and related pages, removing dozens of queries per page
Enhancement: check every never-saved GeneratePerf setting in a single query instead of one query each on every page
Enhancement: remove two option lookups made on every request and the Smart Delay JS transient
Enhancement: with a persistent object cache, the view counter no longer writes transients nor flushes the post query cache on every view
Enhancement: load GeneratePerf front-end scripts with the defer strategy
3rd-party compatibility: serve cached pages to visitors arriving with OpenAI’s oppref ad parameter, and align the ignored parameters of WP Rocket, FlyingPress and Cache Enabler on a single list (FlyingPress was missing ttclid)
Bugfix: on archives, the first thumbnail now gets fetchpriority high and the second one is no longer lazy-loaded
Bugfix: a skip-lazy image wrapped in a link no longer loses its figure and caption
Bugfix: show the GeneratePerf icon on the WordPress Updates screen instead of the generic plugin dashicon

3.1.1 – 2026-09-12

Bugfix: Lexend was rendering as Arial on the front end, because its fallback face was declared under the real font family name instead of Lexend-fallback
Bugfix: Vend Sans never loaded, as its CSS and its preload both expected a file name the shipped font did not use
Bugfix: stop emitting a preload link to a missing file for Old Standard TT, PT Serif, Questrial and Righteous, which are static fonts wrongly flagged as variable
Bugfix: correct the declared font-weight range of 20 variable fonts, which announced weights their files do not contain (Lora, Noto Sans, Oswald, Open Sans, Manrope, Geist and others); Geist is capped at the CSS maximum of 1000
Enhancement: recalibrate the fallback metrics of all 76 local fonts against a balanced French, English, Italian, Spanish and German prose sample, and add the missing descent-override to 55 of them; worst-case text reflow drops from 14% to 1.3% and layout shifts of up to 54 pixels per paragraph disappear
Enhancement: add a second fallback face to every local font, matched to Roboto on Android for sans-serif and to Noto Serif for serif, so devices without Arial or Times New Roman keep a metric-adjusted fallback instead of losing it entirely; both faces share a single family name, so font settings already saved in the Customizer are left untouched
Enhancement: simplify every variable font declaration to a single @font-face with a universal fallback source, dropping the duplicated @supports block and an invalid format() value, for 35% lighter font stylesheets before the new fallback faces
Enhancement: align fallback family names with the font stacks declared in PHP
Enhancement: remove the unused Poppins italic font file
Bugfix: safelist the local font stylesheets with WP Rocket’s Remove Unused CSS, which was stripping the fallback font declarations as unused and cancelling the fallback metrics, letting layout shifts come back
Enhancement: respect the speculative loading defaults a host sets through WP_SPECULATIVE_LOADING_DEFAULT_MODE and WP_SPECULATIVE_LOADING_DEFAULT_EAGERNESS in WordPress 7.1, instead of overriding them; behaviour is unchanged when they are not set
Enhancement: send a Retry-After header with the 503 response of the maintenance mode, so search engines know when to come back
Bugfix: only remove the REST discovery and shortlink Link headers, instead of every Link header, which was also stripping the preload and preconnect hints Cloudflare turns into 103 Early Hints

3.1.0 – 2026-08-26

Enhancement: add Polish (pl_PL) and Swedish (sv_SE) to fully supported languages, with all 673 strings translated
Enhancement: no longer block CCBot and Bytespider in robots.txt; both can still be blocked from a child theme via the generateperf_list_block_agents filter
Security: escape 31 previously unescaped outputs across the admin dashboard, related posts, date archives and author meta
Security: add the missing wp_unslash on menu icon and user profile fields, which were storing escaped slashes in the database
Security: sanitize REMOTE_ADDR and HTTP_USER_AGENT reads, and switch the 4 internal wp_redirect calls to wp_safe_redirect
Security: prefix the generic Custom_Walker_Nav_Menu class to avoid collisions with other plugins
Enhancement: add 116 translators comments and number the placeholders of 4 strings, with existing translations migrated across all 9 locales
Enhancement: move the block editor SVG sprite script out of a PHP heredoc into a dedicated file loaded with wp_add_inline_script
Enhancement: document every remaining coding-standards exception with a justified phpcs:ignore, and add a readme.txt
Bugfix: fix the star rating tooltip showing a truncated score (Rated 4/5 instead of Rated 4.5/5)
Bugfix: restore the contact form validation message translation, missing in 6 languages since 3.0.5, and rebuild every .l10n.php from its .po so all 9 locales match
Bugfix: fix duplicate entries in several Polish dropdown lists (view counters, author bylines, publication dates, summary labels and show/hide wordings), where two options rendered identically
Bugfix: the Google News sitemap now works as soon as the option is saved, without visiting Settings > Permalinks; rewrite rules are flushed on the next request once the rule is declared, and sites where the rule was already missing repair themselves on the next admin page load

3.0.9 – 2026-07-20

Enhancement: refactor the admin settings registration with declarative helpers (generateperf_add_field, generateperf_render_select, generateperf_render_location_checkboxes, generateperf_render_input), removing ~1000 lines of duplicated register_setting / add_settings_field boilerplate with no change to the rendered options
Enhancement: add a « Hidden (custom behaviors) » social share location that loads the share JS and data but no CSS or markup, so you can build your own buttons with data-share-url attributes
Enhancement: only load the social share assets when a display location is selected, and load JS without CSS in hidden mode
Enhancement: enabling the hidden social share location now clears the other locations, active services and native share (on save and live in the admin), keeping only the wording
Enhancement: add a « Purge caches » button in the Tools tab that clears all GeneratePerf presentation transients (icons, SVG sprites, ratings, sitemaps, related tags, updater) and flushes the page cache, while preserving anti-abuse throttles
3rd-party compatibility: allow lazy-loading on GenerateBlocks Pro mega-menu overlay panels so GB Pro no longer forces eager/high-priority loading on them

3.0.8 – 2026-07-06

Enhancement: cache the child theme icons directory scan in a transient (bypassed under WP_DEVELOPMENT_MODE theme), removing a filesystem glob on every front request
Enhancement: build the Stripe renewal URL at render time so the license option is only read when needed and always current
Security: escape author name, avatar and author URLs in the author box, the comment form title, the excerpt subtitle, and use the explicit user_description kses context for the bio
Bugfix: declare the media: XML namespace on the canonical /feed/ URL, not only /feed/rss2/, fixing an unbound prefix validation error on the media:content image tag
Bugfix: various robustness fixes (wp_reset_postdata on related posts, subtitle hook priority resolved on wp, front-end-only scope for the option_generate_blog_settings filter fixing a Customizer notice on WP 6.9.1+)

3.0.7 – 2026-06-30

Enhancement: enlarge Inter variable axis from 400-700 to 300-900 (+ 4kB)
Enhancement: introduce a new « generateperf_related_articles_before_footer_limit » hook to customize the number of related posts
Enhancement: move the taxonomies cloud setting from the SEO tab to a new « Taxonomy Cloud » tab under Features
Enhancement: add a display location selector for the taxonomies cloud (above title, under title, after content, right sidebar top)
Enhancement: add a position class on the taxonomies cloud container for per-location spacing styles
Enhancement: switch the default above-title rendering hook priority from 0 to 20 so badges sit right next to the title
Enhancement: disable GeneratePress native single-tag and single-category displays when the matching taxonomy is enabled in the Taxonomy Cloud
Enhancement: rewrite the taxonomies cloud CSS as a self-contained flex component immune to the parent context (entry-header, content or sidebar)
Enhancement: support an optional taxonomy= »… » attribute on the tags_list and popular_tags shortcodes to list terms of any taxonomy, falling back to post_tag for full backward compatibility
Bugfix: scope the option_generate_blog_settings filter to the public front-end only, fixing a WP_Scripts notice in the Customizer preview on WP 6.9.1+

3.0.6 – 2026-05-27

Security: explicitly set sslverify=true on the GeneratePerf updater wp_remote_get to harden against hosts that opt SSL verification out via filters
Enhancement: raise the Google News sitemap transient TTL from 60 seconds to 1 hour; freshness still guaranteed by invalidation on every publish transition
Enhancement: raise the Site Health diagnostics transient TTL from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, sparing 6 DB queries on every admin page load
Enhancement: migrate 5 inline echo ‘<style>’ admin/front blocks to proper wp_add_inline_style calls (admin notices hide, posts list thumbnail column, progress bar color, Google CSE results page, taxonomy image column)
Enhancement: factorize the taxonomy image column CSS into a single admin_enqueue_scripts hook instead of one per registered taxonomy
Enhancement: add an early bail in the post-update routine for AJAX, REST and cron contexts, avoiding unnecessary DB and filesystem writes outside of regular admin loads
Enhancement: drop the useless init wrapper around the settings export admin_post handler registration
Enhancement: replace the « IN (SELECT … ) » subquery with an INNER JOIN in the « sitemap » shortcode SQL for better performance on large sites
Bugfix: restore inline <sup> rendering in the « Be the first to rate » fallback (the 3.0.5 esc_html switch broke the French ordinal « 1ᵉʳ » markup); now allowed through wp_kses with a strict sup/sub allowlist

3.0.5 – 2026-05-25

Security: stricten contact_form email validation by adding is_email check on top of sanitize_email, to refuse syntactically invalid addresses that survived sanitization
Security: wrap the variable font preload href with esc_url for defense-in-depth
Security: pass the rating prompt translation through esc_html and the « leave a detailed review » HTML translation through wp_kses with an explicit anchor allowlist
Security: rebuild cmp.js entirely with createElement and textContent instead of innerHTML string concatenation, eliminating any DOM-XSS risk on the consent modal
Bugfix: stricten loose == comparisons in 8 conditionals across sitemaps, admin dashboard, ratings admin, medias, SEO archives and other handlers (string and int normalization where the operands could differ)
Enhancement: introduce a GENERATEPERF_OPTION_PREFIX constant and remove the 5 duplicate « static $prefix » initializers in the options-management class
Enhancement: make all native CMP labels translatable (« Cookies management », « Refuse », « Accept and continue », « Privacy policy », « Cookies » toggler) via a single « generateperf_cmp » localized object instead of hardcoded French strings
Enhancement: introduce a generateperf_write_file helper using WP_Filesystem with a graceful fallback to file_put_contents, and migrate the 3 plugin-managed file writes (child theme style.css × 2, customizer CSS cache) to use it
Enhancement: standardize home_url usage by replacing the 3 remaining get_home_url calls, with esc_url and esc_html added on the surrounding markup
Enhancement: replace wp_die HTML responses on disabled RSS comment and search feeds with a clean status_header 404, so feed aggregators get an empty body instead of an HTML error page
Enhancement: clean up 3 redundant phpcs:ignore EscapeOutput markers in the font enqueue / preload functions and the 2 markers around translated ratings strings, after fixing the underlying calls
Enhancement: drop dead-code « $postType » and « $label » variables in the « Be the first to rate » fallback
Enhancement: clean up a misleading « memory leak » comment in the post-update routine to clarify that the flag is consumed, not a leak prevention

3.0.4 – 2026-05-18

Security: escape tag names and tag links in « popular_tags » and « tags_list » shortcodes via esc_html / esc_url / esc_attr
Security: sanitize the license-expiration HTTP header value through sanitize_text_field before storing it in the database
Security: wrap DateTime instantiation on the stored license expiration in try/catch to handle malformed values gracefully instead of throwing
Security: neutralize square brackets in the changelog parser to prevent any shortcode mention from being executed when the « What’s new » dashboard widget is rendered
Bugfix: fix PHP 8.1+ deprecation when HTTP_USER_AGENT is missing on incoming requests, by coalescing the value to an empty string in generateperf_is_robot
Bugfix: rebuild the AggregateRating JSON-LD schema via wp_json_encode, with ratingValue rounded to 2 decimals (float) and ratingCount as an integer, fixing potential invalid schema warnings in Google Search Console
Bugfix: harden ID anchors in « tags_list » table of contents through sanitize_html_class to avoid invalid markup on non-ASCII tag names
Enhancement: add an optional limit= »X » attribute to the « popular_tags » shortcode to control the number of tags displayed (defaults to 25, clamped between 1 and 200)
Enhancement: switch the JSON-LD @context to https://schema.org instead of the deprecated http variant

3.0.3 – 2026-05-13

Security: add capability check on GeneratePerf settings export and import handlers, previously protected by nonce only
Security: whitelist imported options against registered settings and run each option’s sanitize_callback during JSON import, preventing arbitrary option overwrite
Security: cap settings import file size at 1 MB and reject non-string keys to harden the import handler
Security: add CSRF nonce and explicit submit field to the contact_form shortcode to prevent form takeover from other POST handlers on the page
Security: refuse contact form submission when a captcha provider is selected but its public or private key is empty, instead of silently succeeding
Security: add a 1 minute per-IP throttle on the contact_form shortcode to mitigate mail relay abuse
Security: replace raw cURL call with wp_remote_post for captcha verification, respecting WordPress HTTP settings and filters
Security: sanitize uploaded SVG files via DOMDocument whitelist, removing <script>, <foreignObject>, on* attributes and unsafe href / xlink:href values
Security: transparently decompress .svgz uploads and re-write them as sanitized .svg files
Security: bound /vote REST endpoint score to [1, 5], require the target post to be published with ratings enabled for its post type, and add 24 hours server-side double-vote protection per IP+UA+post
Security: validate /update_views REST endpoint against published posts with views tracking enabled, and add a 30 minutes increment throttle per IP+UA+post
Security: escape stored option values in admin dashboard inputs, textareas and option lists via esc_attr / esc_textarea / esc_url
Security: escape author biography output in the team_list shortcode through wp_kses_post
Security: add CSRF nonce to the « Copy CSS to child theme » AJAX endpoint
Bugfix: sanitize the user_avatar profile field URL through esc_url_raw before saving to user meta
Bugfix: remove duplicate, unsanitized save handler for the telephone user meta field
Bugfix: fix broken integer cast on the views counter that left the value as a string
Bugfix: guard isset($_GET[‘page’]) on the GeneratePerf options page check to avoid PHP notices in WP_DEBUG mode
Enhancement: add UPPER_CASE plugin constants (GENERATEPERF_VERSION, GENERATEPERF_ROOT_DIR, etc.) as canonical names while keeping the legacy lowercase aliases for backward compatibility
Enhancement: rebind the « AJAX request failed » localized string to the actual copy-css script handle (was previously orphaned and unreachable from JS)

3.0.2 – 2026-04-28

Enhancement: add a new top left sidebar location for social share buttons location
Enhancement: add Jetbrains Mono variable font (first monospace type font)
Bugfix: remove useless attributes from SVG sprites regardless of their position
Bugfix: fix social share buttons not working when native sharing disabled
3rd-party compatibility: reduce FlyingPress preload delay from 500 to 200 ms

3.0.1 – 2026-03-04

Enhancement: add a template system to in-text related posts to allow child-theme or Gutenberg overrides
Enhancement: add a Site Health checkpoint regarding mandatory colors in Customizer
Enhancement: improve Smart Delay JavaScript for additional gains on TBT and INP metrics
Enhancement: improve some admin translations for better understanding
Bugfix: remove lazy-rendering on « .main-navigation ul ul », led to visibility issues on submenus
Bugfix: exclude « aside » and « nav » html tags from in-text related articles candidates to avoid bad behaviors
Extra: ckeck compatibility with WordPress 7.0

3.0.0 – 2026-01-21

Enhancement: fully redesigned admin interface for v3 GeneratePerf experience
Enhancement: add General Sans variable font
Enhancement: add Bespoke Sans variable font
Enhancement: replace « nowprocket » script attributes with data-nowprocket to respect html standards
Enhancement: add a new « Smart Delay » function that optimizes low-priority scripts automatically
Enhancement: remove WordPress default content formatting : capital_P_dangit and convert_smilies
Enhancement: improve tags_list shortcode to group numbers in a unique « # » group
Enhancement: full regeneration (651 strings) of DK, ES, IT, NL and PT translations with Gemini 3 Pro
Bugfix: move SVG sprites above footer custom code, should always have been this way
3rd-party compatibility: improve media namespace support in GN Publisher Google News feeds

2.9.4 – 2025-12-08

Enhancement: add a new « generateperf_trim_author_description » filter to trim author descriptions in author boxes when needed
Enhancement: add category and tag classes to related posts displayed outside content
Enhancement: add Zalando Sans variable font
Enhancement: add a new « Occupation » user field that is displayed in author box and author profile page
Enhancement: small author box CSS enhancements to avoid unnecessary overrides
Enhancement: add an aria-hidden=true attribute to SVG sprites for better accessibility
Enhancement: manage dashboard widgets removal with a more specific hook
3rd-party compatibility: add compatibility with WP Armour, remove advertising widget on dashboard

2.9.3 – 2025-12-01

Enhancement: add Be Vietnam Pro variable font
Enhancement: disable « woocommerce_recently_viewed » cookie on WooCommerce product pages to allow Nginx caching
Enhancement: improve the performance of several functions hooked to « template_redirect » and « init » hooks
Enhancement: disable « load custom CSS from the customizer in a dedicated stylesheet », costly and no longer needed in WP 6.9
Enhancement: cache SVG sprites icons in transients to avoid multiple file_get_contents() that impact performance
Enhancement: (admin) introduce new switches to improve binary options activation UX
Enhancement: (admin) introduce optimized checkboxes for options with multiple choices
Bugfix: set a new constant alias for get_stylesheet_directory() to simplify its usage
3rd-party compatibility: fully disable WP Rocket Insights, not useful inside WordPress admin
3rd-party compatibility: force ShortPixel Image Optimizer to use double extension path instead of simple replacement (to align with Imagify behavior)
3rd-party compatibility: prevent ShortPixel Image Optimizer from purging cache on image optimization

2.9.2 – 2025-11-17

Enhancement: fully rewrite in-text related posts styles, from Flex to Grid with better responsiveness
Enhancement: improve default author avatar display in « byline » meta
Enhancement: finalize the implementation of new get, set and update functional classes to manage GeneratePerf options
Enhancement: improve options activation performance on post types and archive pages
Enhancement: refactor checkboxes logic for boolean options (on/off)
Enhancement: remove default and empty options from database to improve performance
Enhancement: change array options behavior from json_encode to native serialization
Enhancement: improve and provide new related posts labels
Enhancement: introduce new Speculation Rules exclusions to avoid cache issues
Enhancement: provide a temporary right of use for preprod and local websites in licence management
Enhancement: several improvements to align with WordPress Plugin Check (PCP) expected checkpoints
3rd-party compatibility: add support for SpinupWP cache purge in utilitary functions

2.9.1 – 2025-10-23

Enhancement: apply text-wrap: balance style to « figcaption » and « blockquote cite » tags in addition to titles
Enhancement: disable 4 native blocks in Gutenberg editor if GenerateBlocks or Spectra are used to limit redundancy risks
Enhancement: code reorganization regarding Gutenberg overrides
Enhancement: add Pilcrow Rounded variable font
Enhancement: add Gemunu Libre variable font
Enhancement: create a new utilitary function to save non critical options in autoload=false mode
Enhancement: improve the performance to display custom GeneratePerf links in admin plugins list
Enhancement: introduce new get, set and update functional classes to manage GeneratePerf options
Enhancement: improve performance of dynamic labels display for in-text related content
Enhancement: provide a new simpler « by » post author meta prefix
Bugfix: fix broken post preview when « optimal post slug » option is activated
Bugfix: replace relative path for user ratings endpoint with fully built static url
Bugfix: do not modify excerpt behavior for post types other than posts when native subtitles are enabled
Bugfix: fix sidebar gap to 40px on desktop, CSS reset was no longer working
Bugfix: improve after_update hook to prevent potential memory leaks on busy servers
3rd-party compatibility: improve Cache Enabler « one-click configurator » update behavior
3rd-party compatibility: add support for Shortpixel Image Optimizer via « one-click configurator » : optimal options in 1 click

2.9.0 – 2025-10-06

Enhancement: add support for Github social profiles for authors
Enhancement: allow to change subtitles position from « under post meta » to « under title »
Enhancement: use native get_post_meta instead of get_field for ACF subtitles to improve performance
Enhancement: display simple checkboxes as switches in GeneratePerf dashboard on Safari
Enhancement: allow to exclude users by ids in authors « team_list » shortcode
Enhancement: display author social links in « team_list » shortcode
Enhancement: add a new « public email » user field to display a mailto link in author boxes
Bugfix: support <use> tag in SVGs added through menu icons
3rd-party compatibility: improve Rank Math social medias handling in author profile and author box component
3rd-party compatibility: improve automatic font preloading for WP Rocket >= 3.19
3rd-party compatibility: support new « generateblocks/media » Gutenberg block for skip-lazy class prioritization
3rd-party compatibility: fix images flickering with Perfmatters lazy-loading JS library on scroll

2.8.9 – 2025-10-01

Enhancement: new « one-click configurator » to instantly apply WP Rocket, Perfmatters, Cache Enabler and Imagify optimal configuration (more coming…)
Enhancement: allow post metas separator to be changed in Layout tab : middot, pipe, dash, bullet, slash…
Enhancement: add Clash Display variable font
Enhancement: add Satoshi variable font
Enhancement: add Mozilla Headline variable font
Enhancement: add Epunda Slab variable font
Enhancement: add Vend Sans variable font
Enhancement: improve the performance of the function in charge of identifying shared tags and categories for related posts
Enhancement: support new third party script exclusions for better INP
Enhancement: make GeneratePerf settings descriptions 100% translatable from English
Bugfix: fix incorrect content-type header in contact_form shortcode to improve mail servers compatibility
3rd-party compatibility: update Imagify options to generic « nextgen » instead of old specific « webp »

2.8.8 – 2025-09-18

Enhancement: add a new AI toolbar feature that allows summarize, expand, fact-check and translate with ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, Claude.ai and Google AI
Enhancement: load custom CSS from the customizer in a dedicated stylesheet instead of inline page head
Enhancement: prevent default behavior in JavaScript on dark/ligh theme swtich
Enhancement: add Vimeo support in integrated overlay player
Enhancement: add a generateperf_related_articles_sidebar_limit hook to modify the number of related posts in sidebar
Enhancement: change licence renewal warning delay fron 30 to 2 days
Bugfix: support SVG sprites display in admin when « editor-canvas » iframe is used
Bugfix: modify social share php logic to identify display areas
Bugfix: prevent image media upload opening on taxonomies saving by pressing « Enter » on the keyboard
3rd-party compatibility: improve compatibility with Safe SVG and SVG support plugins for SVG upload handling
3rd-party compatibility: support additional query parameters to be cached in FlyingPress

2.8.7 – 2025-08-04

Enhancement: allow easy svg override and custom use by dropping icons in child theme /images/icons/
Enhancement: use an inline SVG icon for Gutenberg blockquotes, allowing easy override in child theme
Enhancement: prevent TOC generation on the_content filters, needed only for main display
Enhancement: deploy view transitions for taxonomies featured images also
Enhancement: improve social share native button style
Enhancement: add a « CC BY-SA 4.0 » license relation to force llms to quote source when content is used
Enhancement: remove Imagify link from admin bar, no reason for it to be there
Enhancement: add a generateperf_add_user_social_link hook to allow adding custom social profile links
Enhancement: optimize SVG icons paths to its best to reduce page weight
Enhancement: split overlay management into dedicated script to allow global usage
Enhancement: support youtu.be videos for overlay player
Enhancement: native social share button now displayed into an overlay
3rd-party compatibility: fix an issue in RSS feed where xmlns:media declaration is added twice when Rank Math SEO is installed

2.8.6 – 2025-07-06

Enhancement: improve accessibility by using aria-hidden=’true’ on purely decorative elements
Enhancement: improve performance of stylesheets conditional loading
Enhancement: refactor some core features for better performance, relying on constants and avoiding redundant operations
Enhancement: fully rewrite the generateperf_get_svg_icon() function to use SVG sprites instead of direct echo, improves performance a lot
Enhancement: add support for featured images in all taxonomies
Enhancement: display taxonomy image before h1 title in archive pages
Enhancement: add 3 new global labels for comments
Enhancement: add a new « Highligh comments » tool to enhance user engagement
Enhancement: improve sitcky sidebar behavior by allowing early manual scroll
Enhancement: full refactoring of in-text related articles, faster and a lot more robust
Bugfix: fix an untranslated french string in comment area title
Bugfix: fix a color issue on tags_list_summary shortcode buttons
Bugfix: modify the behavior of generateperf_custom_archive_descriptions() that did not work as expected
3rd-party compatibility: improve Twitter/X js exclusions in WP Rocket
3rd-party compatibility: support additional query parameters to be cached in Cache Enabler
3rd-party compatibility: improve Cache Enabler options page

2.8.5 – 2025-06-26

Enhancement: immediately refresh license status on update
Enhancement: add enlarged click area to the new « gb-loop-item » in the same way as « gb-query-loop-item »
Enhancement: implement @view-transitions on content post images with a simple toggle activation
Enhancement: upgrade « external window » and blockquote svg icons to clip-paths in child theme
Enhancement: provide a simple « click to copy » for child theme CSS override in Design tab
Bugfix: prevent DevTools error when an image with a transition is called more than once
Bugfix: prevent GeneratePerf from displaying TOC in the_content when called in get_the_excerpt()
Bugfix: improve the logic for « today » and « yesterday » calculation in relative dates display
3rd-party compatibility: add support for Perfmatters with some specific automatic optimizations
3rd-party compatibility: add support for several caching plugins (Cache Enabler, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, LiteSpeed Cache and SiteGround Optimizer)

2.8.4 – 2025-06-15

Enhancement: add a « Settings » link to GeneratePerf dashboard in plugins listing page
Enhancement: disable Tumblr, Myspace and SoundCloud user profile fields, unused
Enhancement: add TikTok, Bluesky and Mastodon user profile fields that can be displayed in author box and profile page
Enhancement: add TikTok, Bluesky and Mastodon SVG lightweight icons to be displayed as link anchor
Enhancement: add featured image to posts RSS feeds in a dedicated media:content tag
Enhancement: globally replace array-based and switch/case logics by faster php8 match() syntax
Enhancement: silently ignore non existing files instead of check if they exist in php to reduce i/o operations
Enhancement: allow debugging missing custom shortcodes for administrators
Enhancement: add Danish to fully supported languages
Enhancement: use native nocache_headers() function instead of custom headers for SEO redirects
Enhancement: add easy preconnect and dns-prefetch management in custom code section, since dropped in WP Rocket
Enhancement: refactor and simplify label management for in-text related posts
Bugfix: prevent php warning on social share module if no content thumbnail is defined
Bugfix: correctly handle relative time in all languages (last week / month / year labels)
Bugfix: prevent CSS space reservation on anchored Google Ads
3rd-party compatibility: disable the new auto_preload_fonts option in WP Rocket 3.19
3rd-party compatibility: disable the new auto preconnect domains option in WP Rocket 3.19

2.8.3 – 2025-05-29

Enhancement: prevent double display of © in post featured images caption when set manually in admin
Enhancement: disable Gutenberg fullscreen mode by default, not ideal for non-FSE themes
Enhancement: improve and rewrite Table of Content module, providing more labels choices
Enhancement: translate all 442 text chains to the 6 natively supported languages
3rd-party compatibility: replace deprecated rocket_remove_rucss_failed_jobs_cron_interval hook with rocket_remove_saas_failed_jobs_cron_interval

2.8.2 – 2025-04-29

Enhancement: add Literata variable font
Enhancement: add Tektur variable font
Enhancement: add Noto Serif variable font
Enhancement: add Exo Two variable font
Enhancement: update Barlow Regular to variable font (eclusivity, generated from GX file)
Enhancement: add a generateperf_related_articles_after_content_limit hook to modify the number of related articles after posts
Bugfix: fix wrong column width in archives when cover cards style and featured first post are activated
3rd-party compatibility: no longer block ChatGPT user-agents from crawling. Can be modified by a hook in child-theme

2.8.1 – 2025-03-27

Enhancement: drop support for integrated Speculation Rules mechanism for WordPress >= 6.8
Enhancement: delete old « generateperf_prerender_with_speculation_rules » option in wp_options, not needed anymore for WordPress >= 6.8
Enhancement: increase WordPress 6.8 integrated Speculative Loading eagerness to moderate
Enhancement: upgrade WordPress 6.8 integrated Speculative Loading mode to prerender
Enhancement: use native lazy-loading for images instead of WP Rocket’s JS library
Bugfix: avoid breaking translations on WP 6.8 update by updating main load_plugin_textdomain()
Bugfix: modify GeneratePerf Child theme « Text Domain » to avoid translations conflict

2.8.0 – 2025-02-06

Enhancement: improve security on non-secured hostings by adding an empty index.html on plugin root file
Enhancement: add a default alt attribute with post title on posts thumbnails if no alt is specified
Enhancement: modify the selection behavior for taxonomies displayed above post titles, allowing custom taxonomies to be displayed
Enhancement: update CSS for above titles taxonomies to make it faster to render and lighter
Enhancement: improve the behavior of options update on plugin update to make transition smoother
Enhancement: use ACF subtitles as RSS feed posts description if activated
Bugfix: updated hooks to prevent WordPress from sending emails when Core, Plugins and Themes are auto-updated with success
3rd-party compatibility: simplify activation hook for WP Rocket and Imagify options update
3rd-party compatibility: prevent Imagify and WP Rocket configuration overriding on GeneratePerf activation/deactivation

2.7.9.1 – 2024-12-03

Bugfix: 500 error in Appearence > Menus

2.7.9 – 2024-12-02

Enhancement: add DM Sans variable font
Enhancement: add Arimo variable font
Enhancement: Remove WordPress default http header links (typically REST API)
Enhancement: Remove all WooCommerce assets from non-WooCommerce pages
Enhancement: additional improvements to align with WordPress Plugin Check (PCP) expected checkpoints :
- parse_url to wp_parse_url
- escape html through esc_html, esc_attr, wp_kses and variations
- json_encode to wp_json_encode
- strip_tags to wp_strip_all_tags

Enhancement: activate infinite scroll on Medias
Enhancement: provide a post, pages and Elements cloning native function
Enhancement: add a new basic Maintenance Mode accessible in Settings > Reading panel
Enhancement: stop WordPress from checking email on a regular basis
Enhancement: remove « WordPress » from the admin pages title
Enhancement: fully translate admin panel. 431 chains available in 7 languages and translatable in any one.
Bugfix: fix incorrect translations in Spanish
Bugfix: remove old Twitter social share service checkbox in admin

2.7.8 – 2024-11-18

Enhancement: use <p> instead of <h2> for post titles in archives (SEO)
Enhancement: introduce a new dynamic label for summaries
Enhancement: update generateperf_ucfirst to php 8.4 mb_ucfirst with polyfill for old versions
Enhancement: several improvements to align with WordPress Plugin Check (PCP) expected checkpoints
Enhancement: translate all 339 text strings to the supported languages
Enhancement: prevent WordPress from sending emails when a plugin is auto-updated with success
Enhancement: unlock GPTBot and ChatGPT-User bots from crawling website in robots.txt to improve AI SEO
Enhancement: add support for ElementTiming API on featured image (« hero-image »)
Enhancement: introduce an « inherit » mode for global border-radius CSS variable

2.7.7 – 2024-10-22

Enhancement: create a new functions-utils.php file in /inc/
Enhancement: move some global utilitary functions in functions-utils.php
Enhancement: add a CSS @scope on custom shortcodes to avoid unwanted CSS overridings
Enhancement: disable generate_do_comments_template hook when comments are fully disabled
Enhancement: ensure generateperf options are set to autoload=true (work in progress)
Enhancement: include the « cto_pld » URL parameter seen on e-commerce for WP Rocket caching
Enhancement: improve overall security
Enhancement: improve license management and renewal
Enhancement: auto-update Twitter share button to X share button
Enhancement: make more admin texts translatable (English by default instead of French)
Bugfix: refactor 3rd party plugins management, which was not working as expected
3rd-party compatibility: disable WP Rocket lazy-rendering to prevent SaaS crawlers work

2.7.6 – 2024-10-09

Enhancement: use more specific WP Query arguments for XML news sitemap
Enhancement: do not display custom user avatar column if show_avatars is set to true in WordPress
Enhancement: improve the way sources are displayed via ACF and ACF Pro
Enhancement: preload fonts for logged-in users (labelled with a custom « data-generateperf-preload » attribute)
Bugfix: ignore sticky posts in WP Query arguments for XML news sitemap
3rd-party compatibility: improve fonts preloading when handled by WP Rocket

2.7.5 – 2024-09-30

Enhancement: allow noscript tags in the custom code fields, relevant for many third party scripts
Enhancement: add a « generateperf_related_posts_taxonomies » hook to allow adding and removing taxonomies used to display related posts
Enhancement: add a « custom_shortcode » template that allows easy integration of html/CSS/JS shortcodes inside content from GeneratePerf child theme
Enhancement: provide a .l10n.php version of .po and .mo translation files to ensure faster translation
Enhancement: add Rethink Sans variable font
Bugfix: fix a wrong filename for Red Hat Display that caused a wrong preload to be triggered
3rd-party compatibility: prevent WP Rocket (3.17 >=) from lazy-rendering .site-footer, already lazy-rendered

2.7.4 – 2024-08-05

Enhancement: replace Lato font with variable font (300-800) for improved font size
Enhancement: remove Google AI and Anthropic bots from blocklist, add Amazon AI bot to blocklist (robots.txt)
Enhancement: update authors social medias from Twitter to X retroactively (name, link and icon)
Enhancement: improve font management by handling more parameters : « slug » (string) and « variable » (boolean) for now
Enhancement: display a « non-variable » warning for non variable fonts in Customizer list
Enhancement: add an automatic preload mechanism for used variable fonts
Enhancement: add Aleo variable font
Enhancement: include the new Google Merchant Center parameter « srsltid » for WP Rocket caching
3rd-party compatibility: Automatically use WP Rocket preload mechanism if the plugin is used
3rd-party compatibility: Use language-based link to home page on logo for websites with Polylang
3rd-party compatibility: Update to the new « rocket_remove_saas_failed_jobs_cron_interval » filter

2.7.3 – 2024-06-26

Enhancement: improve security and performance of contact form shortcode
Enhancement: add a custom hook generateperf_layout_custom_border_radius for advanced styling
Enhancement: add a custom hook generateperf_max_image_size to override the 1200px image limit
Enhancement: add new feature « Enable videos overlays » in Design tab to open links to videos in overlays
Enhancement: add 2 new filters to modify blocked and limited user agents in robots.txt
Enhancement: improve shortcodes display in GeneratePerf dashboard
Fix: prevent Polylang from activating translations on wp_block post type (WP >=6.6)
Translations:
- Enhancement: add missing translations for contact form fields and validation messages
- Enhancement: translate 100% of texts in the 6 supported languages (304 strings so far)
Licence management:
- Enhancement: improve licence management and updates
- Bugfix: prevent a php Warning when there is no GeneratePerf valid license in functions-updater.php

2.7.2 – 2024-06-04

Enhancement: improve overall stylesheets and scripts naming using « generateperf » prefix everywhere
Enhancement: add a custom hook generateperf_toc_max_title_level for TOC component
Bugfix: fix missing glyphs in Work Sans variable webfont and reduce variable weight axis to 300-800
Bugfix: fix missing glyphs in Montserrat variable webfont and expand variable weight axis to 300-800
Bugfix: fix syntax error for speculation rules related to php echo escaping
3rd-party compatibility: Revert WP Rocket « rocket_enable_rucss_fonts_preload » hook to avoid removing relevant preloads

2.7.1 – 2024-05-28

Enhancement: 3x smaller light and dark SVG icon files
Enhancement: manage SVGs currentColor in image files instead of php str_replace to expand use cases
Enhancement: hide Patterns link in Appearance admin menu in WP > 6.5, since now managed natively
Enhancement: update Speculation rules to last pattern and WP standards
Bugfix: fix a typo in generateperf_update_captcha_options() function
3rd-party compatibility: disable WP Rocket LCP optimization with « rocket_above_the_fold_optimization » filter, not necessary here
3rd-party compatibility: update cache_ignored_parameters exclusions to avoid redundancy with existing exclusions
3rd-party compatibility: update twitter.com links to x.com for social sharing buttons to avoid 301 redirects

2.7.0 – 2024-05-02

Enhancement: allow to change or remove social sharing section title
Enhancement: add a blank <span> separator to be styled with CSS instead of inline SVG

2.6.9 – 2024-04-30

Enhancement: Introduce « third parties » management through specific functions and files
Enhancement: Imagify, WP Rocket, Polylang, Contact Form 7, Yoast SEO and AAWP specific behaviors managed with the new system
Enhancement: better management of label word break for dynamic in-text related articles
Enhancement: improve readibility for in-text related articles on mobile
Enhancement: update old wp_options prefixes to generateperf_ on activation hook
Enhancement: remove and update deprecated options to new system
Enhancement: add an export and import mechanism for options (beta, use with caution)
Enhancement: improve settings form management
Bugfix: do not hide excerpts in embeds
3rd-party compatibility: exclude Complianz CPTs from post types listings in admin

2.6.8 – 2024-04-11

Enhancement: add a new location top sidebar for social share buttons
Enhancement: add a custom hook generateperf_social_share_details for social share component
Enhancement: add native lazy-loading and decoding async on authors avatar images
Enhancement: use str_ends_with() and str_starts_with() php 8.0 functions instead of strpos()
Enhancement: change default native lazy-loading threshold for singular content
Enhancement: add Anybody variable font
Bugfix: fix bad behavior for skip-lazy Gutenberg blocks optimizations : remove unwanted doctype and html tags

2.6.7 – 2024-03-27

Enhancement: manage better icon colors for social sharing and dark theme
Enhancement: change theme switch icons from CSS to inline SVG
Enhancement: improve generateperf_get_svg_icon() performance by removing a redundant disk access
Bugfix: prevent theme switch JS data from being reported by WP Rocket and Cloudflare
Bugfix: fix a wrong strpos() test to add aria-label on inline logo by using the more modern str_contains() function

2.6.6 – 2024-03-26

Enhancement: improve in-text related articles balance with paragraphs
Enhancement: add a generateperf_related_articles_inside_content_limit hook to modify the number of in-text related articles
Enhancement: exclude icon-fonts from automatic preloading in WP Rocket RUCSS through new rocket_exclude_rucss_fonts_preload filter
Enhancement: add a simple but efficient dark mode, with new toggle in the « Design » tab
Enhancement: add Space Grotesk variable font
Enhancement: add Bricolage Grotesk variable font
Enhancement: add Figtree variable font
Enhancement: add Onest variable font
Enhancement : remove Crimson Text not variable webfont
Enhancement: simplify updateVoteInfo() class in /js/user-ratings.js
Bugfix: fix bad characters encoding in social share component

2.6.5 – 2024-03-13

Enhancement: add a fixed thumbnail size in posts list admin page to improve readibility
Enhancement: allow summary component to be opened by default
Bugfix: allow multiple native share buttons in a page without conflict in DOM manipulations

2.6.4 – 2024-03-07

Enhancement: improve update handling and reduce database stored data
Enhancement: reorganize custom webfonts stylesheets organization
Enhancement: use the last variable fonts CSS implementation through @supports font-tech(variations)
Enhancement: allow granular override of plugin CSS files in child theme with new generateperf_get_stylesheet() function
Bugfix: now loading all webfonts used in Gutenberg editor, not only the last one

2.6.3 – 2024-03-07

Enhancement: add Georama variable font
Enhancement: update AI-bots blocklist with Anthropic, Bytespider, CCBot, Cohere, Facebook and Omgili in addition to Bard and ChatGPT
Bugfix: fix wrong CSS urls in child theme by adding a trailing slash
Bugfix: roll back to inline post metas instead of flex, better for visualization
Bugfix: fix incorrect calls of is_feed and is_archive on pre_get_posts hooks, moved to wp hook

2.6.2 – 2024-03-05

Enhancement: add dynamic variables to admin CSS and JS files to prevent caching issues
Enhancement: use thumbnail image size for avatars instead of full size image
Enhancement: add 9GAG share button
Enhancement: allow overriding plugin CSS in child theme for deeper customization

2.6.1 – 2024-02-21

Enhancement: add license management in admin and update mechanism
Enhancement: improve post types selection in GeneratePerf dashboard options
Enhancement: new logo, banner and visual identity different from Agence Web Performance
New: add Epilogue variable font
New: add Instrument Sans variable font
New: add Hanken Grotesk variable font
Bugfix: fix fonts display in Gutenberg editor, no longer related to theme
3rd-party compatibility: only remove CSS global Styles when GeneratePerf child theme is used

2.6.0 – 2024-02-01

Enhancement: use variable webfont for Poppins instead of normal multiple files
Enhancement: use variable webfont for Roboto instead of normal multiple files (based on Roboto Flex)
Enhancement: use variable webfont for Titillium Web instead of normal multiple files (based on Cairo by Mohamed Gaber)
Enhancement: add php void type to main CSS and JS enqueing functions
Bugfix: PHP error related to missing $current_screen variable in admin
3rd-party compatibility: prevent WP Rocket from preloading webfonts in RUCSS mode

2.5.9 – 2024-01-29

New: allow content separator customization in GeneratePerf settings
New: add a now location for related articles before footer, in a container

2.5.8 – 2024-01-26

New: option in GeneratePerf > Performance panel to activate Speculation Rules implementation
New: added 2 new constants to have basedir and basename available globally
Feature: implementation of Google Chrome Speculation Rules API to improve loading times
Fix: incorrect handling of updates. Improved with new global constants

2.5.7 – 2024-01-25

New: integration of the update system
Enhancement: better i18n globally
Bugfix: fix an issue with images paths