Free Version Doesn’t Do Much Except Nag

First off, Smush functionally worked well – installation was easy and setup was a breeze. As a test, I loaded my standard PSP-enhanced images and “smushed” them – virtually no space savings, 1.X% at best. So then I loaded in the un-edited, bloated original images and let Smush have a go at them – the results were a bit better, about 9% space savings. The only problem is that the edited images were 37-45K and the unedited ones were 200K+, so you’re far better off doing some graphic tweaking on your own, at least for the Free version.

All this is forgivable, but each and every time I would load up the WP Admin Dashboard, there would be a “Buy the Pro Version of Smush” nagware item on the dashboard. I would dismiss it, and the next time it would be right back there nagging me. Dismiss it again – yep, it comes right back like a zombie penny that just won’t give up the ghost.

If not for the nagware, I would give Smush 4/5 just for effort and the assumption that the Pro version does much better, but I literally had to delete it just to get rid of the constant nagging.