Version 2.4.6 of our Perfmatters WordPress plugin was released on June 17, 2025.
Changelog summary
- Added new advanced preload option to enable Cloudflare Early Hints (BETA) for Perfmatters preloads along with controls to limit which file types will have early hint link headers sent.
- Added new WP-CLI import-settings subcommand to import a settings configuration from an exported .json file.
- Added new WP-CLI disable and enable subcommands to modify certain plugin options. Available options can be printed out with the new get-options subcommand.
- Added new delay JS quick exclusion for SureCart.
- Added additional logic to disable speculative loading on WooCommerce cart and checkout URLs.
- Added additional logic to allow fallback deferral exclusions as part of an existing delay JS quick exclusion.
- Added built-in exclusion for Gravity Forms to prevent optimization features from running on AJAX form requests.
- Updated CSS parsing library to the latest version (8.8.0). Bug fixes and deprecations.
- Adjusted placement of perfmatters_preloads filter which was running too early and causing some filter snippets to be ignored.
- Increased default delay timeout from 10 to 15 seconds to improve compatibility.
- Fixed an issue with certain parent selector matching functions where a child element selector tag would also be replaced if it had the exact same selector tag HTML as the matched parent tag.
- Fixed multiple redundant calls to retrieve Script Manager settings row when loading the Script Manager UI.
