Perfmatters version 2.6.1

Version 2.6.1 of our Perfmatters WordPress plugin was released on April 10, 2026.

Changelog summary

  • Made additional plugin UI styles adjustments in preparation for WordPress 7.
  • Made some adjustments to our code snippets error handler initialization logic to avoid unnecessary handling if no relevant code snippets are active.
  • Updated our exception_handler method with more specific error logging when our handler is dealing with an error outside of our code snippets.
  • Updated Disable RSS Feeds tooltip text to reflect the recent header changes in the previous update.
  • Fixed an error that would occur when UTF-8 stylesheets with specific multibyte characters were parsed for used CSS.
  • Fixed multiple incorrect form label IDs that showed up when creating a new code snippet.
  • Fixed an issue with Disable Self Pingbacks functionality that was introduced after the functions.php refactor.
  • Fixed an issue where a JS or CSS file preloaded dynamically by handle would not serve the minified version of the file in certain cases.
  • Fixed an issue where the inline stylesheet fallback was not always converting relative URLs correctly if certain characters were present in the string.
  • Translation updates.
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Brett Jackson

Developer from Vancouver, WA, who loves building web applications. And of course, anything WordPress.

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