Will it not break the source code?

  • Resolved Melpomene

    (@melpomene)


    8 years ago

    More of a question before I attempt to use it rather than an observation based on use

    I’ve probably got in the region of 2500 PNG images in a website. Clearly this is my fault for not using JPG’s in the first place. I have a few questions therefore regarding how I can rectify this

    Does the plug-in convert the PNG’s to JPG’s in the website? or does it do it from image library in WordPress? Not all the images I have in the website at present are in the image library

    Assuming it can do it to the website, will it not break the source code in the HTML and effectively convert them into snapped images. I’m aware that people using Smush have complained about this and it would be a concern to me, as clearly losing 2500 images in one application would be pretty drastic

    Obviously I’m desperate to avoid having to render every image one at a time, (it’ll take months) but equally I’m worried that I could break all the images in a single action if it breaks the HTML

    Thx

    in anticipation (and no small about of hope!)

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  • Thread Starter Melpomene

    (@melpomene)

    8 years ago

    OK, I’ve tried to experiment a bit, and now realise that no one is likely to reply to the first question(s) because the answer should be self-evident (apologies for that).

    The first one is answered it pulls through all PNG files that have ever been posted to the domain (which came as a surprise to me). I thought these were long ago gone and didn’t realise they were still rattling around the system. I could do with a whole load of them exterminating rather than taking up memory. Is there any way of doing this?

    The second question concerns the default setting of 90%. Why would anyone want to reproduce a JPG image that is 90% of the quality of the PNG? Should I not set it at 100%? or is the 90% setting something to do with compressing the image, and the image quality itself doesn’t look any different?

    Plugin Author kubiq

    (@kubiq)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    sorry I don’t understand your question in second paragraph.

    About JPG quality, there are many articles online… you can see one of them also with examples here: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/jpeg-quality

    Simply said – lower quality means lower image size = faster web load, less data usage, but if quality is too low, then image can be ugly… most photos are almost unnoticeable on 55-60% quality and file size is a way lower… be careful with images with some significant red element, they need at least 70%

    Also when image has only few colors (max 32) then it’s good to keep it as PNG and just use some PNG optimizer – it will be lower on filesize and keeps its quality on 100% … or use SVG

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