For my job I am in charge of a few different WordPress sites. While I do not make blog posts myself, there are 2 people in the office who do. Let’s just say these 2 are not the most technical. I am looking for a simple, best practice on how to get them to upload properly sized images (both dimensions and file size).
I am wanting the blog page to look uniform with the featured images. Right now, there are square images, vertical images, wide images…the page looks a mess. Ideally, I am looking for all featured images to be 16:9.
For the most part, my process for images is pulling them into Photoshop or Illustrator, properly sizing them and then exporting at a good file size (somewhere below 200kb or so). The other 2 in the office do not have experience in Photoshop or Illustrator. I have found some free services online like [https://tinypng.com/]) that will help reduce the file size but the dimensions stay the same.
Then there are free sites that allow you to resize images but asking them to first reduce the file size, then take that image and resize it and then upload that image to WordPress might get a little murky.
We use WP Rocket on some of the sites and LiteSpeed Cache on others. So the images are being optimized with those plugins but when they upload a 3mb photo…there is only so much they can do.
All that to say – what is your best practice or thoughts on getting coworkers to reduce image file sizes and properly size them? Thank you.
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There’s a free website called photopea that I use to size images. You can create separate templates for different image formats, and the employees can easily follow that, to size appropriately.
Not sure if that would work for you
I use Ewww to set a max width of 1200. It resizes on upload.
I use Smush on a handful of sites. It will compress and resize per your settings and also highlight incorrectly sized images throughout your site
You could take them through the process of how to resize files. If they are doing this often, it would benefit you all that they know how to do it, and I don’t believe it’s particularly difficult to do.