Handling WebP images

  • Resolved sspjumpstorycom

    (@sspjumpstorycom)


    1 year, 6 months ago

    Here’s a fun one, I don’t know how to solve.

    We have recently installed the “Performance Lab” plugin to turn blog post images into the WebP image format. Nice, that greatly reduced file size thus increasing page speed by a bunch.

    However.

    We use this plugin to generate a feed, plug it into Mailchimp, and auto generate newsletters whenever we post something. The “hero image” of the post is of course included in the RSS feed as a WebP image.

    And MS Outlook (amongst others) doesn’t support WebP.
    (https://www.caniemail.com/features/image-webp/)

    Any ideas on how to solve this?

    Though the market share of Outlook is fairly low, around 4%, the marketshare-amongst-bosses is close to 100% ??

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  • Plugin Author 5 Star Plugins

    (@5starplugins)

    Hi @sspjumpstorycom I would recommend reaching out to the Performance plugin support forums, and ask there, as they control what images are used for the posts, and could add an option to exclude the RSS feed, since some email clients don’t support it.

    One workaround could be to make the “View in Web Browser” link much larger, or add Outlook-specific CSS so it’s much larger or a must-use, or change it to “If using Outlook, click here” etc, and their browser will display the images properly.

    I will do some more research on this and see if there’s an option we could add that disables webp in the RSS feed somehow as well.

    Plugin Author 5 Star Plugins

    (@5starplugins)

    Hmm… relevant discussions regarding the Performance plugin and RSS feeds and email clients here:

    https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/74

    Closed without any solution, apparently. ??

    Thread Starter sspjumpstorycom

    (@sspjumpstorycom)

    Nice, thanks for digging up that thread!
    I’ve come to the same conclusion.

    One suggestion that I think could be a solution to this issue (well, a bit of a “hack” rather):
    Offer a regex replace/rewrite feature for the description/content fields.

    The original jpeg is still present in WordPress. I think it could be as simple as replacing the .webp extension of all img elements with .jpg.

    Perfect feature to add as a part of the Premium package ??

    Plugin Author 5 Star Plugins

    (@5starplugins)

    Thanks @sspjumpstorycom I agree, that may be something we can add, and also use similar feed massaging to add additional features such as injecting ads between posts, etc.

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