Manually convert specific images from the library

  • Resolved Galfom

    (@galfom)


    3 years, 7 months ago

    It would be great if you could select a specific image from the media library for conversion and get the results (i.e. the size of the converted image and if it is bigger or smaller than the original).

    The reason why I ask this is because I’m running a multisite and when I (re)generate all images it takes like hours (and the CPU impact is also worth considering).
    And now there is a new site with only 3 images (unfortunately they are badass big) which are not served as WebP. So right now I don’t know if it is because they cannot be optimized or if they where not discovered by the plugin (since they where uploaded via Elementor I could imagine that?). Obliviously I also simply can inform the author that she should optimize these images manually to get better performance and seo but having a feature like mentioned before would be neat as well for this situation.

    Anyways, it’s just an idea and nothing important. The plugin is already great as it is. Thanks for creating and maintaining it!!

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  • Plugin Author Mateusz Gbiorczyk

    (@mateuszgbiorczyk)

    Hello @galfom,

    Thanks for your message.

    If you convert all images similarly, only the new images are converted. Therefore, I do not see any possibility for such a process to take several hours.

    Best,
    Mateusz

    Thread Starter Galfom

    (@galfom)

    If you convert all images similarly, only the new images are converted. Therefore, I do not see any possibility for such a process to take several hours.

    Ohhh, indeed! I was “scared” to hit the button since I expected it to take at least as long as the first time but I didn’t actually try it. I just did now and it really seemed that it only went through the new sites and images in just one or two minutes ?? (Though the ones in question where not included, so I guess this means the author has to do manual optimization here since WebP can’t help.)

    So, this makes this feature next to irrelevant. If anything you might change the statement “This operation should be performed only once after installing the plugin.” since mainly that was keeping me from using the button ??

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