Support for Cloudflare Image Resize?

  • I’m surprised this plugin doesn’t appear to support Cloudflare’s Image Resize functionality — or am I wrong?

    There are a ton of WP plugins designed for resizing images either on the server or via 3rd party API, but in any case the images end up on the web server’s hard disk and the generation of these use the server’s CPU.

    I’d love to see Cloudflare add a mechanism by which the thumbnail, medium, and large sizes aren’t actually generated at all, but rather the URLs are generated in the url format of https://ZONE/cdn-cgi/image/OPTIONS/SOURCE-IMAGE such that Cloudflare will be responsible for generating and serving the resized images.

    Has this been considered?

    Thanks.

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  • Could not agree more. I have just started going down this road to explore this now that image resizing is also part of the PRO plan on CloudFlare but, alas, you have to either alter / rewrite images on the site or setup workers. Both complex processes that could have been avoided by either WP Rocket, Litespeed Cache or other plugins adding this as a feature or, best solution, CloudFlare plugin it self gives you the option to set it.

    I fully support this request.

    Can’t agree more. Also was looking for it without any success…

    burner9000

    (@burner9000)

    Yep, seems cloudflare is a bit behind the ball on this one

    As I replied in the other topic, I’m not sure if it’s in within their scope to add such functionality.

    Nevertheless… https://github.com/Mecanik/cloudflare-image-resizing.

    It will not alter your existing images, just replace all the relevant URL’s to serve them via CloudFlare Image Resizing.

    Enjoy.

    Well, we use webpexpress for webp conversio on our server. The question is if this plugin will work with other plugins or not. The remaining issue for us is just the resizing, nothing else…?

    You could use a Cloudflare Worker to automagically rewrite the URLs, for all of your images, to Cloudflare’s Image Resizing URL format. That’s what I do.

    Not if you have tens of thousands images and don’t want to spend thousands of dollars for it :-).

    `With a $5 paid plan, the first 10,000,000 Worker requests per month are included. After that, additional requests throughout the month, are $0.50 per 1,000,000 requests.

    Offhand, I forget about the free plan. But, if I recall though, it includes 100,000 requests per day.

    While it could maybe be nice to see full Image Resizing support in the plugin itself, I’m just saying that an alternative way to do it site-wide is with a Worker. And, it’s relatively easy to configure.

    Not enough, we have calculated it. But well, we just skipped this option, it’s not a big deal, our images usually have the right size…

    The Image Resizing service itself isn’t free… 50,000 monthly resizing requests are included with Business and Pro plans. $9 per additional 50,000 resizing requests.

    To cost $1,000 per month for the Worker, you’d need to utilize something like 2,010,000,000 monthly Worker requests with the paid plan. Realistically, if you’re getting the kind of traffic that would cost thousands per month for a relatively simple Worker, you’d be paying significantly more than you’d probably like for the Image Resizing requests as well — regardless of how it’s implemented (i.e. plugin, worker, etc.).

    With that said, I do agree that the Image Resizing service isn’t necessarily for every Web site. Some Web sites may be better with just using their other image optimization services (i.e. Mirage, Polish, etc.).

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