Disable “smart” compression mode in Imagify

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Starting with version 2.0, Imagify implemented a “smart” compression mode that replaced the previous modes “normal”, “aggressive” and “ultra”. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be that smart at all.

This new compression mode uses AI to determine the best compression mode for the given image. There’s no more option for you to tell Imagify which compression mode to use. The only alternative is the also new compression mode “lossless”, which produces much larger files than any of the other compression modes and had to be selected for every media manually.

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Block editor: Add settings to document sidebar

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If you want to add a new sidebar control to an existing block, there are filters for that. Or if it’s your own block, you can just use InspectorControls for that. But if you wand to add global settings, which reflect something for the whole post, you need to do it differently.

Since I couldn’t find a proper solution already described in a blog post or documentation, here’s my own one.

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Add WordPress pagination on custom options pages

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Post types usually already have a nice list view (if set to public) in the backend to list its posts. Unfortunately, to customize it you would need some effort in using multiple filters to change the columns, the column heads, the sorting and adjust the query to your liking.

Today, I show another approach by just adding a custom page with a similar but custom pagination.

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