Webangon Image Optimizer

Description

Webangon Image Optimizer gives WordPress users one place to manage heavy image maintenance tasks. It helps reduce storage, improve image delivery, rebuild thumbnails after theme or migration changes, and run large jobs from WP-CLI.

Benefits for WordPress users:

• Find unused Media Library images with a safe dry scan before deletion.
• Protect images used in Elementor, post content, featured images, WooCommerce galleries, widgets, theme/plugin options, SEO fields, and more.
• Regenerate thumbnails after theme changes, imports, migrations, or image-size updates.
• Remove old generated thumbnail files while keeping original/main images.
• Convert images to WebP or AVIF for better performance.
• Rewrite image URLs across posts, post meta, Elementor data, and options after conversion.
• Run image cleanup, thumbnail, and conversion tasks from WP-CLI.

The admin screen is available under Media > Image Optimizer.

WP-CLI Commands

Image cleaner:

wp webangon-image-optimizer clean
wp webangon-image-optimizer clean --older-than=30
wp webangon-image-optimizer clean --deep-meta
wp webangon-image-optimizer clean --include-revisions
wp webangon-image-optimizer clean --skip-options
wp webangon-image-optimizer clean --batch=200
wp webangon-image-optimizer clean --delete
wp webangon-image-optimizer clean --delete --yes

Thumbnail regeneration:

wp webangon-image-optimizer thumbnails regenerate
wp webangon-image-optimizer thumbnails regenerate --sizes=thumbnail,medium,large
wp webangon-image-optimizer thumbnails regenerate --delete-old
wp webangon-image-optimizer thumbnails regenerate --from-original
wp webangon-image-optimizer thumbnails regenerate --ids=12,34,56
wp webangon-image-optimizer thumbnails regenerate --dry-run

Thumbnail purge:

wp webangon-image-optimizer thumbnails purge
wp webangon-image-optimizer thumbnails purge --backups
wp webangon-image-optimizer thumbnails purge --ids=12,34,56
wp webangon-image-optimizer thumbnails purge --dry-run
wp webangon-image-optimizer thumbnails purge --yes

WebP / AVIF conversion:

wp webangon-image-optimizer convert --format=webp --quality=82
wp webangon-image-optimizer convert --format=avif --quality=70
wp webangon-image-optimizer convert --format=webp --quality=82 --delete-old
wp webangon-image-optimizer convert --format=webp --regen
wp webangon-image-optimizer convert --ids=12,34,56 --format=webp
wp webangon-image-optimizer convert --format=webp --skip-rewrite
wp webangon-image-optimizer convert --format=webp --rewrite-only
wp webangon-image-optimizer convert --format=webp --dry-run
wp webangon-image-optimizer convert --format=webp --quality=82 --yes

Recommended Workflow

1. Take a full file and database backup.
2. Run Image Cleaner in dry scan mode before deleting anything.
3. Regenerate thumbnails after changing theme image sizes or after imports/migrations.
4. Convert to WebP first for broad compatibility, or AVIF when the hosting stack supports it.
5. Test important pages, Elementor templates, product galleries, and image-heavy pages after conversion.