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Hi Joe,

I’m in the process of looking for a decent hosting provider that supports ImageMagick.

Is there documentation as to hoe the advanced image compression works? My hope is to be able to use my own, originally compressed images. I work hard to make them right. Would I be able to point to the desired image with the srcset functionality? How does it choose the image?

Steve

Joe, just to be sure, is Imagemagick required for any RICG Responsive capabilities to work? Is there documentation on how to find and set up the handshake between Imagemagick and WordPress? How would I find what WordPress has access to by default?
Thank you, Steve

Hi Joe, I did get a response from a hosting tech who said:

“It looks like the proper path is not used for ImageMagick. So, it is showing as disabled. I suggest that you use /usr/bin/resize or /usr/local/bin/convert depending on your need. Please define this path in the script and see whether it says that ImageMagick is disabled.
If the issue persists get back with script URL and steps to duplicate the issue so that we can check further.”

Please let me know your thoughts.

Nothing returned. I’m beginning to believe that it’s time for a new host. Not much support.

standin by.

Joe, my server seems to be using ImageMagick version: 6.3.3 03/08/07
Here’s the test page: https://www.demo44.com/ImageMagick.php
I was asked if you are using the path: /usr/local/lib/ImageMagick

Ok, thanks. Checking..

Joe, I put your code into the bottom of my theme’s function.php. Also tried without any plugins activated. No change in the compression ratios. Same test in twentysixteen with the same results.

The only difference between the two themes:
Kalium spit out 16 jpgs, including the original.
Twentysixteen spit out five. For me that’s a whole other issue for another day.

Would you care to see the images of the output?

Very glad to hear there may be solutions in the works. Anything I can do to help please let me know. I will add the above code today and let you know.

Thank you,
Steve

Hey – glad to hear back…
The theme I’m using adds a dozen different image sizes. That’s along with the 3 already there created by WP. In my eyes, the upload folder is a huge, unorganized mess. It’s why I’m looking for a new solution.

One of my hopes is to work only with the sizes necessary for responsiveness (including the retina sizes). Fortunately, I can turn the unneeded additional sizes off. The other issue involves compression.

It’s alarming to me that the jpeg compression of each WP processed image is far larger than I believe it should be. For instance, my own 200kb, 1920×1080 img.jpg (which I take great pains to create as small a weight as sensible) initiates the creation of: img-1600×750.jpg which weighs in at over 400kb. And this same discouraging ratio of WP compression is found right down the line. Am I missing something?

Do you think media queries might be the only solution? I’m fine to create each of my own images but I’m in the woods as to the best overall solution.

well I guess I’m too clumsy for your plugin. it’s a shame because I have about a gigs worth of large images I’d like display smartly.

After src=” ….img.jpg” data-src=”null”>

I see that it shows src= rather than srcset=

Yes, I turn on the debug mode last night. I don’t see any debug info above the images in the source code.

don’t give up on me people… I’m going to get this working. just need a little help in how to trouble shoot.