Does the plugin optimize existing thumbnails?

  • Resolved cag8f

    (@cag8f)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hello. When one uploads an image to WordPress, several smaller thumbnails of that image are automatically created (e.g. small, medium, large, etc). When I use your plugin to compress an image that already exists in my WordPress library, does your plugin in-turn ensure all the thumbnails associated with that image are also compressed? Or would I have to do that separately?

    Currently, I have many unoptimized thumbnail images on my site. I am looking to optimize all those thumbnails, and was hoping I could use your plugin to do so.

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Support Imran – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support9)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hello @cag8f

    Hope all is well!

    Thank you for your question. Yes, the Smush lite version is optimizing all thumbnails. To select which thumbnail size needs to be optimized, please go to Smush > Bulk Smush, please see this screenshot.

    Smush checks if there thumbnails that need to be optimized. Click on Re-Check Images button and Smush will scan your site for not yet optimized images.Please see this screenshot

    Let us know if you will have any further questions!

    Cheers,
    Nastia

    Thread Starter cag8f

    (@cag8f)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    OK thanks. I installed the plugin and used it, both in bulk mode and single mode. I have one question. If I open a single image in my WordPress library for editing, then click the ‘Smush’ button, the image and its thumbnails are compressed, as expected. On completion, Smush provides a report, listing all the thumbnails, whether they were compressed or not, and how much compression occurred. I then used the bulk Smush tool which compressed 50 images at once. After the bulk tool completes, is there a similar report I can view that lists all the thumbnails, and whether they were compressed or not?

    I ask because at first, I compressed a few images individually. In a few of those, the Smush report notified me that the original image was not compressed, as it exceeded the 1 MB limit. I’d like to know if this occurred with any of the images I compressed with the bulk Smush tool.

    Thanks.

    Predrag – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support1)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hi @cag8f,

    Let me start with a bit of a followup on which images Smush optimizes.
    In the free version of Smush, your full-size image is skipped but all of your thumbnails will be optimized.

    I’m afraid that there’s not a report to show a list of the skipped images and you will need to check the stats inside the Media panel.
    However, since WP creates defined thumbnails those are usually below 1MB, if you don’t have some huge thumbnails on your site, so there shouldn’t be a lot of images that got skipped.

    Cheers,
    Predrag

    Plugin Support Imran – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support9)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hello @cag8f

    Hope you’re doing well!

    We’ve not heard from you in a while. I’ve marked this ticket as resolved for now, but if you need anything else at all, we’re here for you, please just reopen the ticket or create a new one.

    Have a good day and take care!

    Cheers,
    Nastia

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