Gravity Forms Intergration

Hi @simoncox

I hope you’re well today!

When an image is uploaded to the site, WordPress automatically creates additional copies of those images in different (registered) sizes.

By default Smush only compresses those additional images but doesn’t compress originals. On the “Smush -> Bulk Smush” page you can enable “Compress original images” option to make Smush also process originally uploaded images.

Could you check if you have this enabled already, please?

Kind regards,
Adam

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the feedback, Yes, As I mentioned in my post I have ‘Compress Original Images’ set to ON as well as ‘Automatically Compress my images on upload’ plus the Gravity Form integration is set to ON as well.

When I upload a image into a gravity form and send it form I receive the same size image, nothing seems to be compressed in anyway.

Ideas?

Thanks

Hi @simoncox

Thank you for the information.

Could you just confirm if you are using the latest plugin version Gravity Form 2.7.3?

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Hi @simoncox

I hope you are doing well.

I made some tests in the plugin:

– Downloaded an image, uploaded to Media Library and Smushed, confirmed it went from 4MB to ~3.21MB
– Uploaded the same image using Form and confirmed the same 3.12MB is there: https://monosnap.com/file/jNW3kMoSHEnkn6zowgcxbeUvCBuuqW

This indicates the integration is working well.

Can you confirm when uploading the same images to Media library the size will be smaller?

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for your help and looking into it.

Yes, Im running the latest version of GF 2.7.3.

I think maybe we might be thinking of different things, So I have a Gravity form that has a “upload your images” section in it, when people uploaded their images they get uploaded into a separate folder in the uploads directory ( not the media library ). Problem is now or server is maxing out in terms of space and before I clean it up, going forward I was hoping it would be possible for any images uploaded into the form get compressed smaller to avoid them taking up too much space.

If I upload a 4mb image into the form and then press send, that same 4mb image gets stored on the server and sent to me via email without smush compressing it.

Hopefully that makes more sense, ideally if possible it would be great if smush could compress that image on upload from a form. At the moment it isn’t.

If you would like to see the test form you can view it on gocamp.co.za/test-page

Thanks

Hi @simoncox

Does your form has some additional setup to not include those images in media library? If that is the case, you will need to use Directory Smush to compress images from additional folder which is not the default one from WP core -> /uploads/year/month.

https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/smush/#directory-smush

Kind Regards,
Kris

Hi Kris,

Thanks for your reply.

By default Gravity Forms creates it sown directory in the uploads folder and the uploads don’t automatically go into the standard WP media library.

I have done the Directory Smush on the Gravity Forms folder in the uploads folder but this just Smushes the existing files in there, Im looking for a way for the images to be smushed/compressed when they are uploaded in a form and sent so they are compressed when they get emailed.

Thanks

Hi @simoncox,

Unfortunately, it seems that the custom functions used by Gravity Forms to upload image files prevent Smush from compressing them during upload. We have contacted our developers to see if there is a possible workaround for this, and we will update you as soon as we have more information.

Kind Regards,
Nebu John

Hi @simoncox,

Could you please try this snippet and check whether it helps?

https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/d6773c2daee390783ee8a93b3dbb1457

You can apply the above snippet as a mu-plugins. Please check this link on how to implement the above code as a mu-plugins:
https://wpmudev.com/docs/using-wordpress/installing-wordpress-plugins/#installing-mu-plugins

Kind Regards,

Nithin

Hi Nithin,

Thanks so much for checking this out, So I installed the mu-plugin and ran a test. Image file uploaded into the gravity form was 4.9mb and image size that was sent to me ( and stored on the server) was 5.2mb… it someone went the opposite way.

It didn’t really much make much difference but thanks for checking it out, if you feel like digging further just let me know if there is anything you need from my side.

Regards

Simon

Hi @simoncox

Just would like to ask for some additional information before sharing the result with our development team. Would it be possible to perform a few additional tests with a couple of different images? We’ll just need to verify the result is not an isolated case related to a specific image.

Once you have the results, we’d appreciate if you can share them with us in this thread.

Kind regards

Luis

Hi @simoncox,

Since we haven’t heard from you for a while. I’ll mark this thread as resolved for now. Please feel free to re-open the thread if you need further assistance.

Best Regards
Nithin