FastPixel Cache – Optimize Page Speed: Compress Images, Minify, Clean Database & CDN

1.5.0

⭐ The Smarter Cache & Control Update

Release Date: April 6, 2026

✨ New Features

• Cache Size Limit: Set a maximum cache size and automatically purge pages that haven’t been accessed lately when nearing that limit.
• Cookie Exclusions: You can now exclude requests from caching based on specific cookies, perfect for handling logged-in users, personalized content, or dynamic sessions.
• Bulk Exclusions: You can now exclude multiple pages at once directly from the Bulk Actions menu.
• Ignore Unregistered Parameters: When unregistered parameters are detected, the cached page is served without those parameteres. This option helps reduce disk usage, increase cache efficiency, and improve the cache hit ratio.
• One-Click Cleanup on Disable: When disabling the plugin, you can now remove all settings with a single click for a clean reset.

⚙️ Improvements

• Revamped Notifications UI: Notifications have been redesigned for better clarity, improved layout, and a cleaner experience.
• Better Onboarding Experience: A smoother and more intuitive setup flow for new users.
• Enhanced Error Display: Improved UI and error messages to make issues easier to spot and understand.
• MailPoet Compatibility: Improved compatibility for MailPoet newsletters to ensure proper behavior with caching and optimization.
• General Compatibility Fixes: Various under-the-hood improvements for better integration across different environments and plugins.

Update now for smarter cache management, improved compatibility, and a more streamlined experience! 🚀

1.4.1

🛠️ Fixes

Minor Hotfixes: Applied small fixes to improve stability and ensure everything runs smoothly.

1.4.0

⚡ The Object Cache Update

Release Date: March 16, 2026

🚀 New Feature

• Object Cache: FastPixel can now connect directly to your Redis or Memcached server, enabling powerful object caching with minimal setup. Just configure the connection and let the plugin handle the rest.

✨ Improvements

• Revamped Help Center: The Help Center page inside the plugin has been redesigned to make finding guides and support resources faster and easier.
• Notification Improvements: Some previously non-dismissible notifications can now be dismissed for a cleaner dashboard experience.
• Parameter Handling Improvements: Improved the way parameters are processed during optimization to ensure more reliable and consistent results.
• Small UI Fixes: Minor visual tweaks and adjustments across the plugin interface.

Update now to unlock faster performance with object caching and enjoy a cleaner, more helpful interface! 🚀

1.3.3

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

• Improved compatibility: The Fast preset is now selected by default when FastPixel is installed.
• Improved onboarding: Prevents the onboarding flow from being accidentally skipped.
• GZIP fix: When serving gzipped content from PHP, the end comment is now correctly included in the compressed output.

1.3.2

🛠️ Fixes

• Fix the domain API URL.

1.3.1

🛠️ Fixes

• Fix the dashboard URL.

1.3.0

✨ The Onboarding Update

Release Date: March 5, 2026

🚀 Enhancements

• New Onboarding Experience: Introduced a redesigned onboarding screen to help new users get started faster and configure FastPixel more easily.

🛠️ Fixes

• Minor Bug Fixes: Addressed several small issues to improve overall stability and usability.

Update now for a smoother first-time setup and a more polished experience! 🚀

1.2.3

Release Date: February 10, 2026

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

• Small fixes and UI improvements

1.2.2

🔧 Hotfix update

Release Date: January 28, 2026

• Fix two phase loading option

1.2.1

🛠️ Hotfix update

Release Date: January 27, 2026

• Fix issue on some installs where notices are displayed if the server doesn’t provide HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING

1.2.0

🧵 The CSS Update

Release Date: January 21, 2026

🚀 Enhancements

• Custom CSS Tab: A brand-new CSS settings tab lets you easily add custom styles, perfect for critical CSS tweaks and advanced control.
• Improved Settings Navigation: Settings are now grouped into a clean, collapsible menu — complete with new icons for Pages and CSS sections.
• AI Chatbot Assistant: Need help fast? A new AI-powered chatbot is now available in the Dashboard for real-time guidance and support.

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

• Smarter Cache Purge: Single-item cache purging is now more reliable for posts, taxonomies, archives, authors, and even the homepage.
• Advanced-Cache Handling: The advanced-cache.php file now auto-regenerates on updates and supports overrides for the API host, debug mode, and cache directory.
• Proxy Protocol Fix: Improved support for HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO headers with comma-separated values for better compatibility in proxy setups.

Update now to take control of your CSS, enjoy a cleaner UI, and benefit from smarter cache and proxy handling! 🚀

1.1.0

🎄 The Christmas Update

Release Date: December 8th, 2025

🎁 What’s New

• Unified Interface: The Cache Status page is now integrated into the Settings pages for a cleaner, more intuitive experience.
• Smarter Exclusions: You can now exclude pages directly from the Cache Status/Dashboard and the top toolbar — easier access, faster workflows.
• Scheduled Posts Support: Cache is now automatically purged when scheduled posts are published, so your visitors always see the latest content.
• Search Function Fix: Resolved a bug affecting the search functionality to ensure reliable and more accurate results in multiple cases.
• Improved Tooltips: Tooltips on the Cache Status page now appear on click instead of hover, making them easier to read and more mobile-friendly.
• Minor Bug Fixes: Polished up a few small issues to keep everything running smoothly.

Update now and enjoy a smoother, more festive FastPixel experience! 🎅🚀

1.0.48

🧭 The Clarity Update

Release Date: May 9, 2025

✨ Enhancements

• Smarter Notifications: We’ve fine-tuned our notifications to make them more relevant and easier to understand—especially when changing Settings or Presets.
• Cache Status by ID: You can now sort pages by ID in the Cache Status page, making it easier to track and manage which pages are cached.
• Streamlined Compression Settings: Reorganized the image compression levels for a cleaner look and added clearer explanations about WebP conversion and delivery.
• UI Polishing: Minor interface improvements for a more seamless user experience.

Update now to enjoy a cleaner, clearer, and more intuitive optimization workflow! 🚀

1.0.47

🧹 The Clean Logs Update

Release Date: April 16, 2025

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

• Error Log Cleanup: Fixed several notices that were cluttering error logs in some cases, helping keep your server logs clean and easy to read.
• Bugfixes: Addressed various minor issues to improve stability and performance.

Update now for a smoother, quieter backend experience! 🚀

1.0.46

🛒 The Woo Fix Update

Release Date: March 31, 2025

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

• WooCommerce Compatibility Fixes: Resolved various issues to ensure smoother optimization across WooCommerce pages.

Update now to keep your WooCommerce store running fast and flawlessly! 🚀

1.0.45

🌐 The Smart Purge Update

Release Date: March 28, 2025

✨ New Features

• Always Purge URL(s): You can now define specific page URLs that should always be purged from the cache whenever posts, pages, or plugins are added, edited, or removed. Perfect for keeping key landing pages and dynamic content fresh!

🤝 Compatibility Improvements

• WPML Support Enhanced: Added redirect patches to improve compatibility with multilingual setups using WPML.
• Affiliate Parameter Handling: Improved support for affiliate tracking parameters to ensure they don’t interfere with caching or optimization.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Various under-the-hood bugfixes to improve stability and performance.

1.0.44

🔄 The Smarter Cache Update

🚀 Enhancements

• Improved Automatic Cache Purging: Introduced new hooks to ensure fresh content is always served after changes, making your site even more responsive and up-to-date.

  🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

• Bug Fixes: Resolved various issues for better stability and performance.

Update now to keep your site lightning-fast with smarter cache management! 🚀

1.0.43

🌍 The Multilingual Performance Update

Release Date: March 3, 2025

🚀 New Features

• TranslatePress Compatibility: FastPixel now fully supports websites using TranslatePress, ensuring seamless optimization for multilingual sites. Your translated pages will now be superfast!

🛠️ Fixes

• BugFixes: Various optimizations and refinements to enhance stability and performance.

Update now to keep your multilingual website running at peak speed! 🚀

1.0.42

☁️ The Cloudflare Boost Update

Release Date: February 24, 2025

🚀 New Features

• Cloudflare Integration: FastPixel now integrates directly with Cloudflare! Automatically purge your Cloudflare cache after optimizing pages, ensuring visitors always see the latest version.
• Smarter Cache Purging: The cache is now automatically cleared when adding/removing plugins, themes, or updating WordPress, keeping your site fresh without extra effort.

🛠️ Fixes

• Bugfixes: We’ve squashed various bugs to enhance performance and stability.
• UI Fixes: Made small UI adjustments for a cleaner and more intuitive experience.

Update now to take advantage of the new Cloudflare integration and improved caching! ✨

1.0.41

🔧 Maintenance Update
Release Date: January 28, 2025
🛠️ Fixes & Improvements
* PHP 8.4 Compatibility: Enhanced compatibility to ensure smooth performance with the latest PHP version.
* Exclusion Fixes: Resolved minor issues with exclusions for a more reliable optimization process.
* UI Fixes: Made small UI adjustments for a cleaner and more intuitive experience.

Update now to keep everything running smoothly and efficiently! 🚀

1.0.40

🛠️ Maintenance Update
Release Date: January 21, 2025
⚙️ Fixes & Improvements:
* JavaScript Exclusions: Resolved minor issues to ensure smoother handling of excluded scripts.
* Conflicting Plugins List: Updated the list of known conflicting plugins for improved compatibility and seamless integration.

Stay up-to-date and keep your site running at peak performance! 🚀

1.0.39

The New Year’s Update 🎉
Release Date: January 16, 2025
🚀 New Features & Enhancements
* Brand New Design: Enjoy a modern, streamlined interface designed for better usability and a more intuitive experience.
* Improved Texts: All descriptions and instructions have been refined to make setup and configuration smoother than ever.
🛠️ Bug Fixes
* Minor Bug Fixes: We’ve addressed small issues to ensure a more stable and reliable performance.

Update now to experience a faster, easier, and better way to optimize your website!

1.0.38

Release Date: December 23, 2024
🔒 Security Enhancements
* Asymmetric Request Signing: Improved communication security between the FastPixel WordPress plugin and the optimization service by implementing RSA-2048 asymmetric cryptography. This ensures robust authentication and enhanced protection against unauthorized access or tampering.
🛠️ Improvements
* Updated Plugin Compatibility: allowing CookieYes to properly scrape optimized pages
* Updated conflicting plugins list

✨ Your website optimization just got even more secure! 🎉

1.0.37

Release Date: December 17, 2024
* Some more bug fixes to make the experience even better

1.0.36

The Holiday Update 🎄

Release Date: December 17, 2024

Celebrate the season with a smoother, more feature-packed experience! Here’s what’s new in this festive update:

🆕 New Features

• Exclude WooCommerce Items: Now you can exclude specific WooCommerce products, categories, and tags from optimization, giving you more control over your store’s behavior.
• Post Type Exclusions: Added the ability to exclude custom post types, ensuring your site performs just the way you want it.
• Automatic Homepage Cache Refresh: The homepage cache is automatically refreshed whenever a new post is added, ensuring that the displayed content is always up to date.
• WordPress Taxonomies: You can now view cached pages on the Cache Status page filtered by your taxonomies.

🛠️ Improvements

• Updated Plugin Compatibility: We’ve refreshed the list of conflicting plugins to improve compatibility and avoid potential issues.
• Bricks Builder Compatibility: We’ve added new built-in parameter exclusions to improve compatibility with Bricks Builder.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Squashed several pesky bugs to ensure a more stable and reliable experience.
  Thank you for being part of our journey! Your feedback helps us make every update better. 🎁

1.0.35

Release date: Nov 28, 2024
* Better cache purge
* Bug Fixes

1.0.34

Release date: Nov 26, 2024
* Added purge button to the admin bar
* Bug Fixes

1.0.33

Release date: Nov 25, 2024
* Improved multisite compatibility
* Small UI Fixes
* Bug Fixes
* URLs have been added within the plugin for easier access to the documentation
* Replaced deactivation popup

1.0.32

Release date: Nov 15, 2024
* Bug Fix for WooCommerce product cache purge

1.0.31

Release date: Nov 14, 2024
* Bug fix

1.0.30

Release date: Nov 12, 2024
* Bug fixes, updated advanced-cache.php file and WP_CACHE constant check

1.0.29

Release date: Oct 31, 2024
* Bug Fix

1.0.28

Release date: Oct 31, 2024
* Bug Fixes: Small fixes for wildcard and regexp exclusions.

1.0.27

Release date: Oct 31, 2024
* Bug Fixes: Resolved various issues for improved stability and performance.
New Features:
* Added speculation rules and Speculative Loading for improved performance.
* Improved the exclusion system by adding wildcard support for page exclusions, allowing pages to be excluded in bulk.
* Added the option to disable all query parameters, improving the disk space usage.

1.0.26

Release date: Aug 31, 2024
* Security Fix

1.0.25

Release date: Aug 3, 2024
* Presets added, security fixes

1.0.24

Release date: May 20, 2024
* Fixed bug with non disappearing “limit” message

1.0.23

Release date: May 15, 2024
* Bugfixes, added ability to serve cached page for logged in user

1.0.22

Release date: May 8, 2024
* Bugfix after wrong merge

1.0.21

Release date: May 8, 2024
* Fixes for complying with WP guidelines

1.0.0

Release date: October 13, 2023
* Initial release