ImageMagick and WordPress

  • Hello, some simple Questions for a expert. I have an account on IONOS, but there WP is only running with the GD-Library. After contacting the support, they said after doing some things changing php.ini and so on you can also use ImageMagick. But I saw there is also a Plugin for that.

    First Question, what does ImageMagick exactly do at WordPress. I think it is the working software for pictures at wordpress in the mediathek and it has got better options than the GD-Library, therefore it is the better way. Do I see that correctly?

    Question two, if i will install the plugin, have I to run the plugin as a PHP-Modul not from the command-line, provided it is already installed at the directory usr/bin ?

    Would be nice to get a soon answer
    thanks
    Alfons from Germany

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  • Plugin Author Rickard Westerlind

    (@rickardw)

    Hi,

    1. This plugin makes use of ImageMagick when it is installed on the server. It can be installed and executed via the command line or via a PHP module. This plugin supports both ways.

    2. You don’t have to run anything on the command line. That is what this plugin does for you when images are uploaded to the media library.

    Thread Starter alhai

    (@alhai)

    Hello Rickard, thanks for your answer.

    I understand your answer in this way, it doesn’t matter how to run it either in command line mode or as well as php-modul because you can the plugin configure.

    But what is the better way or the difference to use the plugin in the mode command line or as php-module?

    Again thanks a lot you
    Greetings

    Plugin Author Rickard Westerlind

    (@rickardw)

    Very little difference. PHP module is of course a middle step. Command line is more direct. But nothing you will notice or should notice regarding the performance of the server either.

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