Comments on: How to Optimize, Resize, and Serve Scaled Images with WordPress

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:49:23 +0000

Not that I want to dig up an ancient article by posting a comment years after it was published, but I just landed on this post and was reminded that the CDN offers image resizing out of the box! I was going through and manually defining image sizes in my theme, thus creating hundreds of extra files in my uploads folder. I’ll give this a try again and see if it’s a good solution to my needs :)

By: Middlelab

Middlelab — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 09:24:44 +0000

“In this post, we’re going to focus on how to serve scaled images with WordPress. You’ll learn how to properly size images in WordPress in several different ways and how to improve your image optimization workflow tremendously with Smush Pro.”

Smush does this job the best for wordpress!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 26 May 2022 02:02:37 +0000

I’m also very grateful to see old posts being updated. In fact I would like this automatic resizing function to be available locally, without the need to use the CDN. Because in some locations, I still haven’t seen so much effectiveness. But I hope that it will be done soon

By: Álvaro Novais

Álvaro Novais — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:33:32 +0000

Hello Felicia Ceballos-Marroquin,

Thank you so much for updating this post, I appreciate the effort of the WPMU DEV Blog team to take the old posts and bring them clearly to the current moment. :)

And I totally agree that serving images at scale is one of the much-overlooked ways to deliver better site performance, it’s surprising how many sites don’t
work on the images before posting.

By: Dimitris

Dimitris — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 17:12:20 +0000

In reply to Andik.

This is explained in details above:
https://wpmudev.com/blog/compress-resize-images-wordpress/#servingscaledimages

Warm regards,
Dimitris

By: Middlelab

Middlelab — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 06:18:09 +0000

Images take up a lot of file size space, especially if they’re bloated and oversized. That’s why images should be number one on your list of things to optimize if you’re trying to improve page speed, conversions or sales.

Totally agree. Images affects loadspeed the most and thanks to WPMU Dev, we have smush Pro!

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:40:10 +0000

In reply to James Morris.

Hello there,

So, if I have an image that is typically displayed as 960px max on desktop, but can be displayed at 1024px if the user resizes their browser window (although this would be uncommon). Should I use 960 or 1024px?

Thanks in advance!
Joe

By: Andik

Andik — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:32:21 +0000

Hi After I check my site in GTmetrix tool, I found this sign

“The following images are resized in HTML or CSS. Serving scaled images could save 32.7KiB (84% reduction).

is resized in HTML or CSS from 1000×547 to 396×217. Serving a scaled image could save 32.7KiB (84% reduction).”

What is this meant? Would You inform Me how to solve this one.

Thanks
Regard
Andik

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 15 May 2020 17:20:30 +0000

Great article, Felicia. I have a question. Google’s article on structured data says:

“For best results, provide multiple high-resolution images (minimum of 800,000 pixels when multiplying width and height) with the following aspect ratios: 16×9, 4×3, and 1×1.ratios (they list 16×9, 4×3 and 1×1)”

1. How do I provide multiple images of the same photo/image with these 3 different aspect ratios?

2. Each time that I upload an image to my WP site, should I be uploading 3 different images that each has a different aspect ratio (16×9, 4×3 and 1×1)?

3. If yes to #2, can you please tell me how I do this? Is there a plugin that I should be using?

This is Google’s example code (see below) from the their article:

{
“@context”: “”,
“@type”: “NewsArticle”,
“image”: [
“”,
“”,
“”
]
}

Thank you. Have a great day.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 15 May 2020 13:18:34 +0000

I really appreciate your humble, light hearted, and straightforward writing style. I find your articles to be the most informative and easiest to read on the web for the topics you write about. Thanks!