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This PR implements background optimization. It uses workers which start via a loopback through wp_remote_post. Queueing is based on meta data on each attachment.

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What this bring us?
A user with a lot of images in their library can compress, grab a coffee and come back with all their images compressed. Besides this, we will not have client interference when optimising many images which makes the compression more predictable.

Decisions

  • Previous versions used wp-background-processing but required PHP7 and WP > 4.9. I also ended up overriding a lot of defaults from the library making the trade-off not worth it.
  • Workers stop when the user is logged out. This is because the original request carries the cookie which is then verified.

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  • New Features
    • Bulk image optimization runs in the background, with progress and individual results updated as processing completes.
    • You can resume an active optimization queue or cancel it from the bulk optimization page.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Images that fail during optimization are reported individually.
    • When the optimizer reaches its limit, remaining queued images are canceled rather than left pending.

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Walkthrough

Bulk image optimization now uses a server-side queue and asynchronous workers. New endpoints start, report, and cancel queue work. The admin interface polls results and can resume polling for a running queue.

Changes

Background optimization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queue state and initialization
src/class-tiny-background-optimize.php, src/class-tiny-plugin.php, tiny-compress-images.php
The optimizer tracks queued, processing, done, and failed attachments. The plugin loads and initializes the optimizer.
Worker execution and compression
src/class-tiny-background-optimize.php
Workers claim queued attachments, compress them, save results, and update attachment metadata. Worker requests use WORDPRESS_HOST when set and otherwise use admin_url().
Queue endpoints and result formatting
src/class-tiny-plugin.php
The plugin adds start, status, and cancel endpoints. Status responses include formatted image results and cumulative library-size updates.
Bulk optimization polling and resume
src/js/bulk-optimization.js, src/views/bulk-optimization.php, src/views/bulk-optimization-form.php, src/class-tiny-plugin.php
The admin script starts or resumes queue polling, requests status in batches of up to 10 items, and sends cancellation requests. The view passes the queue’s running state, and the previous notice text is removed.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Admin_Browser
  participant Tiny_Plugin
  participant Tiny_Background_Optimize
  participant Attachment_Metadata
  Admin_Browser->>Tiny_Plugin: start queue request
  Tiny_Plugin->>Tiny_Background_Optimize: start attachment queue
  Tiny_Background_Optimize->>Attachment_Metadata: compress attachment and update metadata
  Admin_Browser->>Tiny_Plugin: poll requested attachment results
  Tiny_Plugin->>Tiny_Background_Optimize: retrieve statuses and results
  Tiny_Background_Optimize-->>Tiny_Plugin: return statuses and results
  Tiny_Plugin-->>Admin_Browser: return formatted results and running state
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 09b2e

Background bulk optimization can still show images as cancelled when its workers stall, can start work after the user cancels, and can miss the worker endpoint on subdirectory installations. Resolve these issues before merging.

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Review comments at @src/class-tiny-background-optimize.php:
- Around line 151-154: Add a targeted PHPCS ignore immediately before the
`$_POST['key']` read in the worker handler, naming the nonce-verification rule
and noting that this logged-out loopback request is authenticated by the
`wp_hash` key check.
- Around line 178-179: Remove the redundant blank line and trailing whitespace
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- Around line 174-192: Update restart_stalled_workers to track when each item
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that status update succeeds, preserving state from newer runs.

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- Line 218: Update the cancellation request in the bulk-optimization flow to
handle its failure with `.fail()`, notify the user that cancellation failed, and
restore the UI to a state where they can retry. Keep the existing POST action
and nonce unchanged.
- Around line 145-148: Update the cancellation path in pollStatus so it
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public function restart_stalled_workers() {
if ( ! $this->is_running() || get_transient( self::ALIVE_TRANSIENT ) ) {
return;
}


foreach ( $this->get_processing() as $id ) {
update_post_meta(
$id,
self::META_KEY_RESULT,
array(
'failed' => 1,
'message' => __( 'Optimization was interrupted', 'tiny-compress-images' ),
)
);
update_post_meta( $id, self::META_KEY_STATUS, self::STATUS_FAILED );
}

$this->start_workers();

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

A stalled-run recovery can mark an active image as failed.

The recovery runs when the ALIVE_TRANSIENT has expired. A worker sets this transient only when it starts an image. One compression can take more than 120 seconds, for example with a large image or many sizes. If every worker is in a long compression at the same time, the transient expires. A status poll then marks those images as failed with "interrupted" while the workers are still compressing them. The poll also starts 5 more workers.

The update is keyed only by ID, so it is also a lost update. When the original worker finishes, Lines 299-300 overwrite the failed status with done. The client may already have shown the image as failed.

Fixes:

  • Store a start timestamp for each processing item, and fail only the items that are older than the limit.
  • Make the failure update conditional on the current status: update_post_meta( $id, META_KEY_STATUS, STATUS_FAILED, STATUS_PROCESSING ). Write the result only if this update succeeds.

Based on learnings: an ID-only UPDATE after a separate SELECT can overwrite a newer state.

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update_post_meta( $id, self::META_KEY_RESULT, $result );
update_post_meta( $id, self::META_KEY_STATUS, $status );

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

A worker's final write can replace state from a newer run.

start() deletes all queue meta at Lines 87-88. If a worker from an earlier run is still compressing, its write at Lines 299-300 adds done or failed status to the new run. That attachment may also be re-queued in the new run. Its queued state is then overwritten, so the image is never processed in the new run.

Write the status conditionally with update_post_meta( $id, self::META_KEY_STATUS, $status, self::STATUS_PROCESSING ). Write the result only if this update succeeds.

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$remote_request_result = wp_remote_post(
getenv( 'WORDPRESS_HOST' ) . '/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php',
$args
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🔎 Supported by static analysis

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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- target file ---'
nl -ba src/class-tiny-background-optimize.php | sed -n '1,330p'
printf '%s\n' '--- WORDPRESS_HOST references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '!vendor/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' -- 'WORDPRESS_HOST' . || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- admin AJAX URL references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '!vendor/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' -- "admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php' )" . || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant configuration and environment references ---'
rg -n -i --glob '!vendor/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' -- 'subdirectory|sub-directory|wp-admin/admin-ajax|wordpress_host|WP_HOME|WP_SITEURL|WORDPRESS_' . || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- changed lines against requested base ---'
git diff --no-ext-diff --unified=40 af59382d5fc83f8507b830cc5d53e6d1b5658a2a 09b2ef1eaaa31299189554ddc9986517e5d2c9c4 -- src/class-tiny-background-optimize.php

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Preserve the configured admin path when WORDPRESS_HOST is set.

admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php' ) preserves the WordPress installation path, but the WORDPRESS_HOST branch replaces it with /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. On a subdirectory installation, the worker request can miss the endpoint and leave queued attachments unprocessed. Build the URL from admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php' ) and replace only its host with WORDPRESS_HOST.

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