Original Image Option
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Here’s a suggestion, unless an option for this already exists. (Perhaps I could filter or hook into one of the plugin functions?)
Provide an option to either not save the un-compressed original, or don’t compress the original, (or save both versions as the default option.)
Here is an example of where this might be desirable: I’m building a website for a photographer which will contain several thousand photographs. Minimizing the total size of the media library is one important reason for using an image compression plugin.
The photographer already resizes his images to the maximum dimensions at which they can be displayed; he does not want them to be available any larger. He already optimizes the images in Photoshop before he uploads them. So the compression savings are not huge, but still worthwhile when compounded over lots of images.
The WordPress “Large” image size of his photos is the same as the original.
But with this plugin, the total aggregate file size for each photograph, including all sizes of each, is actually larger with your plugin because, besides the un-compressed original, it adds an extra compressed-original file (one extra file per photograph.) The size of that extra file is significantly larger than the savings on all of the other sizes combined.
Given the reSmush.it API, I don’t know whether this would be possible, but I suggest that if it is possible, it would be helpful to some users.
(There is no way that, in its current form, I can make it do this, is there?
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