Weston Ruter

This is a workaround for sites experiencing any issues with the ability introduced in WordPress 6.9 to <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/18/wordpress-6-9-frontend-performance-field-guide/#load-block-styles-on-demand-in-classic-themes" rel="nofollow ugc">load block styles on demand in classic themes</a>. The known issues have been fixed during the 7.0 release cycle with the following commits:
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<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/61076" rel="nofollow ugc">r61076</a>: Script Loader: Fall back to hoisting late-printed styles to end of HEAD if wp-block-library is not enqueued.</li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/61122" rel="nofollow ugc">r61122</a>: Script Loader: Load block styles on demand in classic themes even when wp-block-styles support is absent.</li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/61174" rel="nofollow ugc">r61174</a>: Script Loader: Improve hoisted stylesheet ordering (in classic themes) to preserve CSS cascade.</li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/61554" rel="nofollow ugc">r61554</a>: Script Loader: Preserve original CSS cascade for classic themes when hoisting late-printed styles.</li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/61945" rel="nofollow ugc">r61945</a>: Script Loader: Refine hoisted stylesheet ordering to preserve original CSS cascade in classic themes.</li>
</ul>
If running a classic theme (i.e. not a block theme), this plugin filters <code>should_load_separate_core_block_assets</code> to be <code>false</code>. This has the effect of reverting a change introduced in 6.9 where classic themes now load separate core block assets on demand by default.
Note that this plugin should be considered temporary until any issues are resolved in 7.0. At any time, you can test whether any issues remain by adding <code>?should_load_separate_core_block_assets=true</code> to any frontend URL; this restores the default behavior in WP 6.9.
This workaround should be temporary because there are performance benefits to loading separate core block assets. They can be loaded on demand just when they are used, as opposed to loading the large single combined <code>wp-block-library</code> stylesheet. Loading separate block styles on demand reduces the amount of CSS which should improve page load time. Nevertheless, as explained in the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11/18/wordpress-6-9-frontend-performance-field-guide/#load-block-styles-on-demand-in-classic-themes" rel="nofollow ugc">dev note</a>, some sites may be built in a way that fundamentally does not work with loading separate block styles on demand. For these sites, this plugin is available to retain the old behavior.

Load Combined Core Block Assets

Workaround for sites experiencing issues with WordPress 6.9's changed default behavior to load block styles on demand in classic themes.

Elementor

Image Optimizer – Optimize Images and Convert to WebP or AVIF


Constant annoying ad in the paid version of Elementor for this plugin that I and my customers have to close all the time. Grrrrr


Annoying advertising inside a paid plugin

Trash


I don't like the new spammy plugin install prompts everywhere on my sites. This is an unnecessary plugin, and there are plenty of better and free options for image optimization.


This is not a good choice


At first I thought it was just another image optimization plugin. Whereby I am totally convinced of the Elementor Builder and therefore already had the hope that the image optimization would also convince me. I then tested it on my own website. When I created it, I naturally made sure that the images were optimized. I was all the more surprised that after optimizing with the plugin, the images could be reduced by more than half the file size. I can therefore highly recommend it.


Does what it promises


Image optimizer is very easy to configure and once done, each new image is optimized automatically and quickly and it works quite well, because it has improved the loading speed of my site!



My images were already optimized and I didn't think it was possible to further gain compression without losing quality.



In the media library, you can see each image with the space saved as well as the total space saved, this allows you to see the space saved at a glance.


Great image optimisation & conversion ✨

Does the job well


Thanks for this great plugin. Its helps a lot. Looking forward to more features in the future.


Good one! helps optimize photos better

works like a charm!


The plugin works so well compared to the other solutions around,I install it for customers' websites and finely they can upload images without my help explaining how to compress the images. 


So good to have this solution by Elementor


It suggests to install in free version of elementor but later when you wanna do something it asks to connect with elementor pro. What the hell is this plan, why WP even approve this? Even you should 1% free.


Too greedy plugin, avoid it.

Automatically resize, optimize, and convert images to WebP and AVIF. Compress images in bulk or on upload to boost your WordPress site performance.

Load Combined Core Block Assets vs Image Optimizer – Optimize Images and Convert to WebP or AVIF