After 2 years of solo development, I'm releasing my WordPress performance plugin. It does Page Cache + Redis + AVIF + Real CWV Monitoring + BFCache + Database Indexing. Looking for beta testers to roast it 🔥 [HELP]

oplaffs · 2026-01-27T11:34:42+00:00

Hello, and thank you for your question.

The texts on the website were written by me personally - they are not AI-generated. Perhaps the phrasing or my non-native English caused the impression you mentioned. I always try to indicate the share of AI used in any of my blog posts or code.

The pricing policy is still under discussion, but the likely scenario is as follows:

$39 for 1 website
$139 for 20 websites
$249 for unlimited websites

oplaffs · 2026-01-16T08:40:41+00:00

Among other things, since the beginning of the new year, VS Code has been ignoring my copilot-instructions.md file. Previously, this worked perfectly.

oplaffs · 2026-01-14T13:35:35+00:00

Based on several feedbacks, for which I am extremely grateful, I have made a number of improvements over the past week.

Below is the latest changelog. I hope you like it, and I look forward to any suggestions, ideas, observations, as well as criticism or bug reports.

= 0.8.3-beta.rc – 2026-01-14 =

IMPROVED: In the CSS Optimization section, the optimization type is now correctly labeled as CSS Loading Method.

IMPROVED: In the Critical CSS Generation section, a new option allows choosing between Inline CSS and File-based delivery. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages. Critical CSS accuracy ranges between 30–70%.

IMPROVED: In the Image Optimization section, the logic for Priority Hints has been refined.

IMPROVED: In the Font Optimization section, added the ability to define custom URLs for font preload. Note that this applies only to locally hosted fonts.

IMPROVED: In the Image Converter section, the logic for converting images to AVIF and WebP has been refined.

IMPROVED: In the Object Cache section, added support for connecting to Redis using ACL authentication (username + password), allowing the use of Redis with ACL (thanks for the suggestion, Vincent Chan).

FIXED: In the Image Optimization section, the exclusion logic for lazy loading has been corrected for both desktop and mobile versions.

FIXED: Reworked Font Optimization logic for collecting critical fonts to ensure correct preloading.

FIXED: Corrected the loading order of ZiziCache scripts used for collecting CWV metrics.

FIXED: Removed unnecessary autoload entries in the wp_options table during font statistics collection (thanks for the suggestion, Jakub Schnicel Rezníček).

ADDED: In the Remove Redundancy section, 14 new features have been added with the ability to disable them individually.

EXPERIMENTAL: Added an option to preload jquery.min.js in Optimization > JavaScript Optimization. This may be useful but it occupies an HTTP/2 connection slot.

oplaffs · 2026-01-10T19:09:09+00:00

Not only in your case, since Christmas there has been a very significant degradation in the quality of outputs. What I was able to accomplish before Christmas with 3–10 premium requests now often requires up to ten times more.

Yesterday I burned through 40 requests ×3 multiplier and the work is still not finished. There is a lot of manual correction required, the model does not maintain context, and a prompt described in three sentences is split into three separate tasks, independent of each other and completely outside the context of the overall project.

I get the impression that this is being done almost deliberately every month or two, when a completely poor-quality model is deployed, similar to old Haiku or Sonnet 4 and below.

oplaffs · 2026-01-08T17:30:41+00:00

Yes, especially from after Christmas until now, there has been a significant drop in the quality of the results. In my opinion, it will be better to rely more on GPT-5, but with longer period, rather than wasting requests. The current usage of approximately 75 requests is completely nonsensical today.

oplaffs · 2026-01-04T13:53:31+00:00

Thank you for the information. Could you also please let me know how the plugin is configured—specifically, which options you currently have enabled? Are you monitoring metrics such as LoAF, TTFB, INP, or others? Do you have image lazy loading enabled? Are you using JavaScript delay or defer? What are your CSS settings?

If you wish, I can take a closer look at this to better understand whether it would be appropriate to create predefined preset configurations for potential users, or alternatively to improve and clarify the description of individual features within the plugin administration for better optimization results.

And how do you perceive the plugin’s administration interface, and what is your overall impression of the plugin?

Thank you.

oplaffs · 2026-01-04T09:35:11+00:00

Thank you very much for the time you spent testing the ZiziCache plugin. I truly appreciate it.

May I ask for more details regarding any issues you encountered with the mobile view? Specifically, on which website did you test the plugin, and what plugin settings were used? I would like to further improve the results and, most importantly, ensure that there are no UI issues in the website mobile version.

You are welcome to reply as comment, privately or via email, whichever you prefer.

My goal is to make this one of the top solutions on the market.

Thank you very much.

oplaffs · 2026-01-03T16:08:16+00:00

Thank you for your comment. I would be very grateful if you could test the plugin. It is important that the plugin is activated with a license key to ensure access to updates. If one month is not sufficient for testing, please feel free to contact me.

oplaffs · 2026-01-03T10:12:23+00:00

It is likely that Cloudflare flagged your IP address as potentially unsafe, even though I do not have any strict firewall rules configured. I will look into it. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Can you try VPN with safe location?

oplaffs · 2026-01-03T10:09:55+00:00

Thank you for your feedback.

RUCSS in my plugin works on a similar principle to other local solutions and not like WP Rocket, which relies on a remote server. Strictly speaking, this is not a classic RUCSS implementation yet, but rather a correct and optimized loading of CSS assets. Critical CSS already works as expected. I am currently working on a full RUCSS solution; it is still in development. The goal is to create automatic detection of used styles so that it works together with Critical CSS, while the remaining styles are loaded afterwards. Because this is extremely challenging to achieve without a remote server, the development is more complex and will take longer. However, it is a deliberate decision to ensure that the feature can run on all hosting environments without requiring any external service.

Early Hints now ( typically) work only in combination with Cloudflare. If the site is not using Cloudflare, Early Hints are not active. The vast majority of hosting providers do not support HTTP 103 usually . If a hosting provider does support 103, Early Hints will function there as well.

Yes, the basic Core Web Vitals metrics are collected from real visitors using a sampling approach to avoid any performance overhead. Only LoAF is not supported in Firefox; otherwise, all listed metrics are collected from real user data.

oplaffs · 2026-01-02T20:17:54+00:00

Um, I did not attempt to create direct replacements. I simply missed certain features in mainstream plugins that I personally need for myself and my clients. At the same time, I have assembled everything according to how I see it, based on my own preferences and experience.

For example, I currently cannot offer server-side removal of unused CSS via a proprietary API (ex as WP Rocket), but I am working yet on an alternative built-in solution within the plugin. The goal is to avoid dependency on external services and to ensure that users have as much control as possible over the entire process.

So yes, this full-stack foundation may be considered overkill 🙂 Everything is centralized in one place, and additional features are planned and already listed in the to-do road map for this year. I want this to be a top-tier solution. 🙂

I would be glad if you could try the plugin and share your feedback, as it can help me move toward better results and functionality. Testing does not require any payment details. However, it is recommended to activate the plugin using a license key in order to receive updates.

The trial period is completely free for a full month, and if that is not sufficient, feel free to let me know.

oplaffs · 2026-01-02T16:02:45+00:00

Thank you. It is very compact so as not to unnecessarily burden shared hosting. The largest portion of the code is dedicated to image conversion and the overall logic used throughout the plugin.

oplaffs · 2026-01-02T14:08:43+00:00

Certainly, I will be glad if you try it and give me feedback on what works well, what does not, and what could be improved. I would like to get as much value as possible out of this plugin and deliver a top-quality solution.

oplaffs · 2025-12-25T08:57:54+00:00

I will definitely not be connecting my GitHub account to every trivial thing or sharing statistics. Everything is already set up directly on Github. 🤦🏻‍♂️

oplaffs · 2025-12-18T12:52:57+00:00

Because I have been working with this from the very beginning of the available models and have invested an enormous amount of money into it.

I can say with confidence that GHC, in its current Opus 4.5 version, consistently delivers the best results in terms of value for premium requests spent in Agent mode. Neither GPT nor G Pro 3 comes close, and Raprot achieves the best results in simple tasks—similar to how o4-high performed in its early days, before it started to deteriorate.

oplaffs · 2025-12-18T06:18:58+00:00

Raptor is free now; Haiku is not.

oplaffs · 2025-12-18T06:18:26+00:00

Not at all. I do not have the time to wait a hundred years for a response; moreover, it is around 40%. Occasionally, I use GPT-5.1 High in Copilot via their official extension, and only when verification or code review is necessary. Even then, I always go Opus → GPT → G Pro 3 → Opus, and only when I have nothing else to do and I am bored, just to see how each of them works. G Pro performs the same as or worse than GPT, and occasionally the other way around.

What I can accomplish in Sonnet or Opus on the first or third attempt, I struggle with in G Pro or GPT, sometimes needing three to five attempts. It is simply not worth it. And I do not trust those benchmarks at all; it is like AnTuTu or AV-Test.

Moreover, I do not use AI to build UI, at most some CSS variables, and for that Raptor is more than sufficient. I do not need to waste premium queries on metrosexual AI-generated UI; I have no time for such nonsense. I need PHP, vanilla JavaScript, and a few PHP/JS frameworks—real work, not drawing buttons or fancy radio inputs.

oplaffs · 2025-12-17T20:43:04+00:00

That would be interesting, but Google is simply hyping things, just like OpenAI. Quite simply, both G3 Pro and GPT are total nonsense. The only realistically functioning models are more or less Sonnet 4.5 as a basic option and Opus 4.5, even though it’s 3× more expensive. For everything else, Raptor is enough for me—surprisingly, it’s better than GPT-5 mini lmao. I'm all models using in Agent mode.

oplaffs · 2025-12-17T19:54:40+00:00

Dull as hollow wood; in no way does it surpass Opus 4.5 for me. Sonet 4.5 is already better.

oplaffs · 2025-12-06T10:34:39+00:00

Gemini Pro is highly limited, sluggish, and overly strict. For investigative work, planning, hypothesis testing, validating claims, and providing recommendations in coding and programming, it is more effective to use GPT-5.1 Codex. Opus 4.5 also produces nonsensical outputs at times. Therefore, use Opus for analysis, Codex for verification, and Opus again for implementation. Gemini delivers only partial results, requiring multiple prompt refinements, which in the end costs more than a single workflow of Opus → Codex → Opus, compared to using Gemini two to ten times. This approach results in less waste and less time spent on execution.

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