How you go about seeing which ones you actually used is a topic for another post. *We have since decreased this to 15 thumbnails, we weren’t using 5 of the sizes generated in our layouts and so were just wasting resources– yeah, something else to look into! You can see what thumbnails are being produced, usually, in your theme’s functions.php file. Their theme creates 20 thumbnails* of each image (if the original was correctly sized when uploaded). The client added 540 original images one month. To help you calculate your usage I’ll use an example of one site we developed and host. There is a handy calculator on their website, below are a few tips on using it.

When you set up an account, you get the first few hundred images and thumbnails compressed for free, after that they are a few hundredths of a cent each. Then click the link on your WordPress dashboard to set up your Account with TinyPNG (or go to the TinyPNG developer page directly) and enter your email and credit card information to get your API Key. *this varies by theme and the use or intended display size of the image you are uploading- you likely have no reason to upload a 4032 x 3024 full resolution iPhone image to your site unless you love paying for storage Setup in WordPressįirst install and activate the Compress JPEG & PNG images plugin in WordPress. In short, it’s handy and saves more labor than it costs. It also tracks the images it has compressed so they aren’t re-compressed. When you upload your properly* re-sized images, tiny PNG does all of the compression for you on the server, in the background. It’s ease of use (removing a step from Photoshop processing of images for upload to WordPress) and amazing compression algorithm make it a no-brainer for any website, especially one that uses a lot of images vs text. To utilize and automate server-side image compression, we recommend TinyPNG ‘s plugin for WordPress.

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