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Some clients manage their blog and consistently upload 5MB-10MB images.
I have step-by-step documentation for them, but I might be looking into a plugin (likely paid for a good product) that resizes and compresses automatically upon upload.
Free plugins (100 compressions per month or something) can actually be only \~12 seperate images, because of WordPress’s image sizes and theme image sizes. So if feels so much more efficient for it to be done before upload.
Any recommendations, perhaps with an unlimited license option?
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ncQcxnD-CxDk4h01QYyrlOh1lEYDS-DV/edit
Check out the image optimization section, tons of options. I’d recommend opening the table of contents, it’s 318 pages.
ReSmushit is great for compression for a free product as long as images are under 5mb. Compress the existing library and set to compress on upload.
Yes, use webp express, unless you’re using a CDN.
Bulk convert, then convert on upload.
I have a video about it here!
Easily convert images to nextgen format using webp express: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwjJNICirko](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwjJNICirko)
Yep. Always.
Cloudflare has a clever way of building its CDN cache of the website images with resized versions that get served as webp. The reverse proxy sees the request for the origin image URL and serves it using the optimized image from the cache instead. So while the website file system still grows larger than desired, at least the images are automatically served to users as optimized versions. It’s not perfect all the time because sometimes the cache needs to refresh, but it can be an easy way to handle the problem. I don’t know if that is a great permanent solution, but Rocket + Imagify can do auto optimization. I’ve also used Smush for images and it’s good too.
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/ Works well for us
Imsanity is the gatekeeper you want: https://wordpress.org/plugins/imsanity/
Maybe it can help:
* 1. configure PHP ‘upload_max_filesize’ to lower value – it will forbid them to upload huge images
* 2. Use ModernImageFormat plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-uploads/) for image compressing
I bought lifetime deals for ShortPixel and EWWW image optimization plugins, and now we don’t have any more issues with our dear clients complaining about image sizes, speed, or whatsoever. 🙂
I have 2 recommendations:
1) if you don’t mind paying $10/month for an unlimited plan then use [https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/)
2) if you want a completely free option then you can use this
[https://wordpress.org/plugins/resize-image-after-upload/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/resize-image-after-upload/)
Have your site do it for them using functions.php to define image sizes and mb limits.