WebP conversion not working?

And if the WebP files are being created, in what directory are they located?

Hi,

I have checked your site and it does not like the WebP images are created (they would be in the Uploads directory of your site)

WebP images are only generated on newly added images, are the images newly added?

Hi @vupdraft, the images are not newly added. I did not realize that only new images are converted. If I can find a 3rd party app to convert the existing ones, and then put them in the uploads directory, will that work?

It might, what kind of server are you using?

Here is the InMotion server info:

Server Name      ecbiz331

cPanel Version   102.0 (build 31)

Apache Version 2.4.55

PHP Version        8.1.14

MySQL Version  10.3.38-MariaDB-log

Architecture       x86_64

Operating System            linux

Dedicated IP Address      23.235.196.174

Path to Sendmail              /usr/sbin/sendmail

Path to Perl         /usr/bin/perl

Perl Version        5.16.3

Kernel Version   3.10.0-962.3.2.lve1.5.73.el7.x86_64

Once you have created the WebP images using a different plugin, can you also add the following to your .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

  RewriteEngine On

  # Check if browser supports WebP images

  RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} image/webp

  # Check if WebP replacement image exists

  RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.webp -f

  # Serve WebP image instead

  RewriteRule (.+)\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$ $1.webp [T=image/webp,E=REQUEST_image]

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>

  # Vary: Accept for all the requests to jpeg, png and gif

  Header append Vary Accept env=REQUEST_image

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_mime.c>

  AddType image/webp .webp

</IfModule>

• This reply was modified 1 year, 12 months ago by vupdraft.

I tried the above, but unfortunately it did not work.

Then I uploaded a new image to see if WP-Optimize would automatically create the WebP images for me. The JPG file and thumbnail files were created in /public_html/main/wp-content/uploads/2023/04. However, there are no WebP images in that directory. Are the WebP images created elsewhere?

@vupdraft I’ve tried this code, but it didn’t work, I have some images converted to webp by your plugin, but they don’t display ?? Any ideas?

I’ve checked Create WebP version of image and then add image to post with classic editor or add image to widget with new editor, the image will always be the original extension as I uploaded. The webp file created but not in use and seems to never use until manually change file extension in the contents.