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Will replace the existing per image ajax compression with async requests.
It uses deliciousbrains/wp-background-processing.

Async requests are useful for pushing slow one-off tasks such as sending emails to a background process. Once the request has been dispatched it will process in the background instantly.

Background processes work in a similar fashion to async requests, but they allow you to queue tasks.

We use extend and use these libraries to create a queue of images to optimize. With a few key differences:

The default class stores items added on the queue into a site option.
This will not work for sites with over 1000s of images as they will all be stored into a single row. Also it prevents us from compressing multiple images at once as the row would be locked when an item is being processed. Therefor we update meta key _tinywp_queue_status for every attachment needing optimization to queued.

The default class has a single worker
The default lock_process() sets a transient to lock. We override this behaviour by using a slot of each compression. When a task is done it will clear a slot so that a new worker can start. The previous version posted 5 images at once (see var parallelCompressions = 5;)

What this bring us?

This gives users a more reliable image optimisation process. Previously, it worked over the client through ajax calls. The image optimisation process has a lot of http transfers which might be interrupted by anything the client has going on.
Also, a user with a lot of images in their library can compress, grab a coffee and come back with all their images compressed.

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  • New Features
    • Bulk image optimization now runs in the background, so processing can continue while the page checks for progress.
    • The bulk optimization page updates image statuses as items complete or fail, and lets you cancel a running queue.
    • The page now shows whether a bulk optimization queue is already running.

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Bulk image optimization now uses a server-managed background queue. The plugin adds queue endpoints, worker processing, and browser polling for results and cancellation.

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Background bulk optimization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Background-processing substrate
composer.json, bin/post-install, src/vendor/prefixed/deliciousbrains/wp-background-processing/classes/*, tiny-compress-images.php
Adds and prefixes the background-processing package, composes its classes during post-install, and loads those classes into the plugin.
Attachment queue and worker processing
src/class-tiny-background-queue.php
Adds queue status and result tracking, worker-slot locks, attachment processing, compression result reporting, and cancellation behavior.
Plugin queue endpoints
src/class-tiny-plugin.php
Replaces the synchronous bulk-compression endpoint with queue start, status, and cancel endpoints. Status responses include formatted results and accumulated library-size changes.
Bulk optimization polling and controls
src/js/bulk-optimization.js, src/views/bulk-optimization-form.php, src/views/bulk-optimization.php
Connects the bulk page to queue startup, polling, and cancellation. Passes the existing queue state to JavaScript and removes the prior notice text.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BulkOptimizationJS
  participant TinyPlugin
  participant Tiny_Background_Queue
  participant ImageCompression
  BulkOptimizationJS->>TinyPlugin: Start queue request
  TinyPlugin->>Tiny_Background_Queue: Queue available attachment IDs
  Tiny_Background_Queue->>ImageCompression: Compress claimed attachment
  BulkOptimizationJS->>TinyPlugin: Poll attachment statuses
  TinyPlugin->>Tiny_Background_Queue: Get requested results
  Tiny_Background_Queue-->>TinyPlugin: Return statuses and results
  TinyPlugin-->>BulkOptimizationJS: Return queue status and formatted results
  BulkOptimizationJS->>TinyPlugin: Cancel queue request
  TinyPlugin->>Tiny_Background_Queue: Cancel queue
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Fix the unit-test loading failure and PHP compatibility mismatch before merging. Worker-slot contention can also misreport progress and start extra compression workers.

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Review comments at @composer.json:
- Around line 53-60: Update the classmap paths in the composer override for
deliciousbrains/wp-background-processing to include the package’s classes/
directory, so Mozart resolves and moves both files after src/vendor is removed.
- Line 18: Update the Composer PHP requirement from >=5.3.0 to >=7.0 to match
the unconditionally loaded background-processing dependency, and declare
Requires PHP: 7.0 in the WordPress plugin header and distribution readme
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- Around line 147-156: Update lock_process() to claim slots atomically and leave
$this->slot unset when none is available; ensure handle() returns without
processing in that case instead of assigning a shared fallback slot. Update
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public function lock_process( $reset_start_time = true ) {
if ( $reset_start_time ) {
$this->start_time = time();
}

$free = array_diff( range( 1, self::WORKERS ), $this->taken_slots() );
$this->slot = $free ? reset( $free ) : self::WORKERS;

set_site_transient( $this->slot_key( $this->slot ), microtime(), $this->queue_lock_time );
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Claim worker slots atomically, and stop when no slot is free.

lock_process() has two problems:

  • Race on claim. It reads taken_slots() and later writes a transient. start() sends five loopback requests at the same moment. All five workers can see every slot free, and all five can take slot 1.
  • Shared fallback slot. When no slot is free, the worker takes slot WORKERS anyway. That slot already belongs to another worker.

The first worker to finish then deletes the shared transient in unlock_process(), but the other workers are still compressing. This has three effects:

  • is_processing() undercounts. The cron health check and the end-of-handle() dispatch() then start extra workers, so more than WORKERS can run at once.
  • At the end of a run, no attachments are queued and no slot transient remains. is_running() then returns false while images are still processing.
  • pollStatus in src/js/bulk-optimization.js gets running: false for an item with status processing. It marks that row "Cancelled" and stops polling. It shows "All images are processed" even though compression is still running, and it never shows those results. On page reload, $bulk_running is also false.

Fix:

  • Claim each slot with one atomic operation. Options:
    • INSERT IGNORE into the options table, then check $wpdb->rows_affected. Store an expiry in the value.
    • MySQL GET_LOCK() with IS_USED_LOCK(). This lock is also released when the PHP process dies.
  • When no slot can be claimed, end the request without processing. Do not fall back to self::WORKERS.
  • Guard unlock_process() so it only deletes the slot this process owns.
Sketch of an atomic claim
 	public function lock_process( $reset_start_time = true ) {
 		if ( $reset_start_time ) {
 			$this->start_time = time();
 		}
-
-		$free       = array_diff( range( 1, self::WORKERS ), $this->taken_slots() );
-		$this->slot = $free ? reset( $free ) : self::WORKERS;
-
-		set_site_transient( $this->slot_key( $this->slot ), microtime(), $this->queue_lock_time );
+		$this->slot = null;
+		foreach ( range( 1, self::WORKERS ) as $slot ) {
+			if ( $this->claim_slot( $slot ) ) { // atomic insert-if-absent or GET_LOCK
+				$this->slot = $slot;
+				return;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	protected function unlock_process() {
-		delete_site_transient( $this->slot_key( $this->slot ) );
+		if ( null !== $this->slot ) {
+			$this->release_slot( $this->slot );
+			$this->slot = null;
+		}
 		return $this;
 	}

handle() (or a maybe_handle() override) must also return early when $this->slot is null after lock_process().

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Review comment at @src/class-tiny-background-queue.php around lines 147 - 156:
Update lock_process() to claim slots atomically and leave $this->slot unset when
none is available; ensure handle() returns without processing in that case
instead of assigning a shared fallback slot. Update unlock_process() to release
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