No webp is being used in galleries

NextGEN Gallery does not yet support WebP images at all, sorry. I believe that EWWW Image Optimizer adds that feature however.

Ok,

after searching desperately for a solution on this subject I’m close to leave out galleries and just go for single pic click.

– NO gallery plugin provides webp images allthough they often come with an image optimizer and therefore make you believe they do. “Nextgen Images” is the designation for the new and fast image format focusing on webp and not super optimized jpg’s.
– So the only solution is to go for optimized jpg’s
– But take care. If you want to provide larger images for retina and 4K displays you will be left allone with the fact that always the largest jpg will be loaded. No matter which Display you are on.
– There is no filter or breakpoint for screen resolution
– no picture and srcset tag will be generated

So I’m asking the support team here what I can do to make this webp thing working on galleries and lightboxes.

edit:
I changed the webp integration to htaccess rewrite rules im Imagify Image Optimizer. So all JPG request are forwarded to the webp version.
That saves 2/3 of the overall image weight.
That’s what I wanted. Because I’m not using CDN so far its ok for me.

Now I will double check if NextGen Gallery generates srcset for img tags.
Hope so.

Thank you

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by metanamo.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by metanamo.
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