Title: Request Update
Last modified: December 10, 2018

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# Request Update

 *  [JDTravel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdtravel/)
 * (@jdtravel)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-update/)
 * This plugin was recommended by WP Rocket Technical Support but it seems to have
   been abandoned so cannot risk using it. There is a definite need for a plugin
   like this now that Google’s Page Speed Insights is recommending use of Next Gen
   Image formats such as WebP. There doesn’t seem to be any equivalent plugins available
   so hoping that this one can be updated.

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 *  [rosell.dk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roselldk/)
 * (@roselldk)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-update/#post-11011561)
 * Hello JDTravel,
 * Yes, it seems abandoned. I’m not the maintainer of this plugin, but I maintain
   WebP Express ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-express/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-express/)).
 * As Mozilla and Microsoft have now jumped the webp boat, it seems possible that
   webp is going to replace jpeg and png as the preferred format. It seems that 
   the future question should not be: how do we serve our jpegs in webp for webp
   enabled browsers, but rather: how do we serve our webp files as jpeg/png for 
   older browsers. But with this amazing library ([https://webpjs.appspot.com/](https://webpjs.appspot.com/)),
   we won’t even have to do that. We can simply just add the javascript, and we 
   have webp support for older browsers. How amazing is that?
 * But with WordPress, you aren’t even allowed to upload webp files in the media
   library. Without being able to insert webp images, adding the javascript has 
   no value, it seems. Or am I missing something?
 * A solution could be a .htaccess 301 redirect from jpg/png to existing webp in
   same folder. If webp does not exist, the solution could be to redirect to an 
   image converter, which generates the webp – like its done in WebP Express.
 * Redirection however produces another request. A better solution would probably
   be to replace the image src in the HTML. But that is complex.
 * What do you think?
 *  [rosell.dk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roselldk/)
 * (@roselldk)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-update/#post-11011612)
 * Related topic: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/worked-on-staging-but-not-working-on-production/#post-11011601](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/worked-on-staging-but-not-working-on-production/#post-11011601)

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## Tags

 * [webp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/webp/)
 * [WP Rocket](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-rocket/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [rosell.dk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roselldk/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-update/#post-11011612)
 * Status: not resolved