Title: Thumbnails and optimisation
Last modified: November 26, 2018

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# Thumbnails and optimisation

 *  Resolved [HillofBeans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hillofbeans/)
 * (@hillofbeans)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-and-optimisation/)
 * Hi Frank and team!
 * I was using this a while back but stopped because it didn’t pick up the raw YT
   url WordPress embed (didn’t fancy going back on 300 posts!), but I’m glad to 
   see it works out of the box now.
 * One question about the thumbnails. I’ve taken quite some pains to optimize all
   my images recently, I’m using Optimus which is an awesome solution.
 * However, I don’t think it allows me to specify a directory (only wp-uploads)
 * Hence, my post images are all now super-optimised (WebP), but the plugin’s video
   thumbnails are unoptimised jpgs.
 * This means that on some posts, the page file sizes are actually bigger when your
   plugin is installed (but the page still loads quicker… ha ha) – because of the
   thumbnails.
 * Is there anything I can do about this?
 * Does choosing a smaller video embed resolution use a smaller thumbnail size for
   instance?
 * Thanks 🙂

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-and-optimisation/#post-10920022)
 * > Is there anything I can do about this?
 * for starters make sure the “high quality video” option is not ticked as that 
   forces the thumbnail to be in higher quality as well ..
 * and if you’re not afraid to code you could use the `lyte_match_thumburl`-filter
   to str_replace hqdefault.jpg with mqdefault.jpg ? 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [HillofBeans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hillofbeans/)
 * (@hillofbeans)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-and-optimisation/#post-10921134)
 * Great thanks 🙂
 * Switching off HQ video brought some of the thumbnails from 100kb to 18kb – big
   difference!
 * Not a coder, but happy to change some values if you can point me to where I should
   change this setting.
 * Regards
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-and-optimisation/#post-10921259)
 * It’s not a matter of changing values really, but of creating a (small) piece 
   of code that hooks into LYTE to change the thumbnails to an even lower resolution.
   Not the most difficult of tasks for a developer, so would not be expensive to
   get someone to write that for you 🙂
 * frank
 *  Thread Starter [HillofBeans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hillofbeans/)
 * (@hillofbeans)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-and-optimisation/#post-10921419)
 * Ok, thanks Frank.
 * The HD video trick worked well, but I’ll keep the filter trick in mind as well
   and put it on the never ending list of modifications for my developer to get 
   round to!
 * Thanks again 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-and-optimisation/#post-10921423)
 * you’re welcome [@hillofbeans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hillofbeans/),
   feel free to [leave a review of the plugin and support here](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-youtube-lyte/reviews/#new-post)!
   🙂

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