@brianleejackson.com - Brian Jackson 🌵

09 Sep 2026 21:19 +0000

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. ⚡

31 Aug 2026 18:16 +0000

Issue #59 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 I've been using Zeron, a beautiful and fast native app for controlling AI agents. 🤖 https://newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-from-brian-issue-59

24 Aug 2026 02:17 +0000

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. 🎨

19 Aug 2026 22:44 +0000

WordPress 7.1 is out! 👏 Carlo always does a great job of diving into all the changes. https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-7-1/

11 Aug 2026 00:33 +0000

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. 👍

31 Jul 2026 19:11 +0000

Issue #58 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 How wp2shell took down our site, 😨 but not the way you think. https://newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-from-brian-issue-58

30 Jul 2026 21:20 +0000

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. 🎉

30 Jun 2026 22:10 +0000

Issue #57 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 Adding "exercise snacks" to my daily routine. 💪 https://newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-from-brian-issue-57

30 Jun 2026 19:45 +0000

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. 👨‍🔬

25 Jun 2026 23:45 +0000

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

18 Jun 2026 18:19 +0000

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.

29 May 2026 18:10 +0000

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

27 May 2026 23:33 +0000

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.

20 May 2026 21:41 +0000

WordPress 7.0 is here! 🎉 A few things I'm excited about. - New UI (+view transitions) - AI connectors - Custom CSS for individual blocks - Block visibility based on viewport - Font management - CodeMirror update to v5 - OPCache added to site health Great overview here: https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-7-0/?kaid=WOORKUP

30 Apr 2026 18:02 +0000

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

29 Apr 2026 22:35 +0000

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. ⚡

27 Apr 2026 23:58 +0000

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. ⤴️

10 Apr 2026 21:13 +0000

Version 2.6.1 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! This is a quality-of-life update to improve compatibility across the board. 👍 - Made some adjustments to our code snippets error handler initialization logic to avoid unnecessary handling if no relevant code snippets are active.

31 Mar 2026 17:36 +0000

Issue #54 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 AI content is 90% engagement farming/slop and 10% insanely useful. 🫣 https://newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-from-brian-issue-54

25 Mar 2026 20:43 +0000

Version 2.6.0 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - Updated PHP CSS Parser library to 9.3.0. This includes many improvements for our Remove Unused CSS feature (more accurate parsing/compatibility). ⚡

13 Mar 2026 01:53 +0000

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.

27 Feb 2026 17:34 +0000

Issue #53 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 Using AI to troubleshoot performance issues. 🤖⚡ https://newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-from-brian-issue-53

27 Feb 2026 04:26 +0000

Version 2.5.8 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - Code Snippets is out of beta. 🎉 We appreciate all of you who took the time to test and provide feedback. - Added new perfmatters_lazyload_data_src filter. - Added nav selector support for functions that target elements inside parent containers. 👨‍🔧

13 Feb 2026 07:44 +0000

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

30 Jan 2026 17:52 +0000

Issue #52 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 My phone’s primary function is its biggest flaw. 📱 https://newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-from-brian-issue-52

28 Jan 2026 23:51 +0000

Version 2.5.6 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! Updated our lazy loading class to no longer add

22 Jan 2026 21:14 +0000

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 @theadminbar.com for putting this together. https://theadminbar.com/events/code-snippets-are-slowing-down-your-website/

01 Jan 2026 21:13 +0000

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.

31 Dec 2025 18:20 +0000

Issue #51 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 All I want for Christmas is pneumonia. 🎄🤒 https://newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-from-brian-issue-51

12 Dec 2025 02:42 +0000

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/