Title: Webp Image Format
Last modified: April 10, 2020

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# Webp Image Format

 *  [themefour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themefour/)
 * (@themefour)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-image-format/)
 * I have stated this many times. It was supposed to be in WordPress 5.3, then they
   said in WordPress 5.4 but it didn’t end!
 * I hope this support is done in WordPress 5.5! Please refer to developers and 
   administrators.
 * tnx.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by [themefour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themefour/).

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 *  Moderator [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/)
 * (@fierevere)
 * 永子
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-image-format/#post-12654978)
 * 1. webp is not yet supported by all browsers
    [https://caniuse.com/#feat=webp](https://caniuse.com/#feat=webp)
 * no IE, no Safari (mobile/desktop)
 * 2. here are plugins that offer this functionality, with fallback for the browsers
   above.
 * 3. [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/) is for
   such kind of requests, i bet here are already many tickets about webp format.
   
   You can find a live ticket and comment on it.
 * I will close this topic.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-image-format/#post-12657027)
 * You also need to understand that there are other issues than just support for
   the format in WordPress.
 * WordPress doesn’t do any of its image handling itself, it farms this out to the
   underlying libraries. Specifically, WordPress supports the GD and Imagemagick
   libraries for image handling.
 * While these have support for webp, that support is relatively recent, meaning
   that most hosting systems don’t have the latest versions which have that support
   built in. So even if WordPress added support for it, without the library support
   on your host to do all the resizing and other work to those images, nothing would
   really allow it to work.
 * Considering that and the lack of browser support for a not-insignificant number
   of users, webp isn’t gaining any real traction. I know that we all want to use
   the nice new toys, but WordPress has to work for everybody. This often means 
   supporting the common denominators.
 * You can follow along with the development in these tickets:
    [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35726](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35726)
   [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35725](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35725)
   [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43023](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43023)

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 * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
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 * Last reply from: [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-image-format/#post-12657027)
 * Status: not resolved

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