Error: The PHP Image Processing (ImageMagick) extension is not loaded.

  • Resolved Russell Cardwell

    (@russell-cardwell)


    6 years, 8 months ago

    “Error: The PHP Image Processing (ImageMagick) extension is not loaded. Please contact your hosting provider to have the missing PHP extension installed and/or enabled.”

    After trying to find ImageMagik (which I’m pretty sure has been active on my site since the beginning, it did not show up anywhere as an extension or application available to add to PHP. Long periods online with tech support ensued. I was ultimately told that ImageMagik is not optional and cannot be de-activated.

    Possibly related. As soon as I updated to this version of WPSSO (Version 3.55.1), my image optimization plugin, EWWW, started throwing a fatal error. Eliminating EWWW eliminates the fatal error, but kills image optimazation.

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  • Thread Starter Russell Cardwell

    (@russell-cardwell)

    The error message about ImageMagick stopped showing up after a couple of hours. I downloaded a report from phpinfo() for my site that showed ImageMagick to be present and active. Not sure what was causing that error.

    But the fatal error of EWWW which conflicts with WPSSO remains. The error only affects the dashboard, which fails completely. The front-end is unaffected.

    Updates for both WPSSO and EWWW were posted at about the same time, and it was in the process of updating plugins that the error first occurred.

    Plugin Author JS Morisset

    (@jsmoriss)

    You should report the error to the EWWW team. WPSSO simply does the following to detect the ‘imagick’ PHP extension:

    
$editors = array( 'WP_Image_Editor_Imagick', 'WP_Image_Editor_GD' );

$implementations = apply_filters( 'wp_image_editors', $editors );

if ( ! extension_loaded( 'imagick' ) ) {
    // show error
}

    See here for more info: https://php.net/manual/en/function.extension-loaded.php

    My guess would be that EWWW is hooking the ‘wp_image_editors’ filter and doing something “not ok”. ??

    js.

    We just started getting this error as well. Can we not just use GD instead of imagick?

    Plugin Author JS Morisset

    (@jsmoriss)

    Yes, you can. ??

    https://surniaulula.com/2018/03/10/choosing-your-php-image-extension-for-wordpress/

    js.

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