ShortPixel to Smush

  • Resolved ElleJG

    (@ellejg)


    3 years, 10 months ago

    I have an image heavy site that’s several years old. It has ShortPixel installed and all images have been optimized with it. However, I would like to convert to Smush so I can take advantage of Lazy Load.

    Is there anything I need to know/do? Any steps to take in the switch over? Or do I just uninstall ShortPixel, install Smush, and turn on Lazy load?

    Thank you!

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  • Plugin Support Williams – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support8)

    Hi @ellejg

    I hope you’re well today and thank you for your question!

    If images are not offloaded from your site to some external CDN (while at the same time physically removed from your server), there is no extra steps to take at all:

    – disable ShortPixel
    – install and enable Smush Pro
    – in some cases Smush might detect that further optimization is possible so if it does, you can run bulk-smushing to let it do this (this is optional)
    – configure whatever Smush options you need/want to use and that’s it.

    IF the images were offloaded first to some CDN and removed from your server physically, then you would have first to restore them so they were in a default locations in Media Library but then the switch would be the same after that.

    To sum it up: if image files are still physically in /uploads folder of the site: just disable ShortPixel and enable Smush and you’re good to go.

    Note: you might need to clear caches on site/server after the change.

    Best regards,
    Adam

    Thread Starter ElleJG

    (@ellejg)

    Perfect. Thank you for the detailed response.

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