{"id":389468,"date":"2026-10-20T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/merchlint-product-image-size-checker-for-google-merchant-center\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:00:41","slug":"merchlint-product-image-size-checker","status":"publish","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/merchlint-product-image-size-checker\/","author":23551451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"version":"0.1.0","stable_tag":"0.1.0","tested":"7.1.3","requires":"6.5","requires_php":"7.4","requires_plugins":null,"header_name":"Merchlint \u2013 Product Image Size Checker for Google Merchant Center","header_author":"Baltano","header_description":"Finds WooCommerce product, gallery and variation images under 500 \u00d7 500 px, too small for Google Merchant Center from 31 January 2027. 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Google may reject such an image or replace it with an enlarged copy.<\/p>\n\n<p>A shop that has been adding products for years can have hundreds of such images and no way to see\nthem: WordPress shows every picture as a neat thumbnail. This plugin measures every image that goes\nto Google and tells you which products need attention, and how much work each one is.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>What it checks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The main image of every published product and the own image of every variation.<\/li>\n<li>Gallery images, up to 10 per product \u2014 Google takes up to 10 additional images.<\/li>\n<li>A product with no main image: the first gallery image, because that is the one Google for\nWooCommerce sends as the main image.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The size is read from the image file itself, the full-size file that feeds send to Google.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>A verdict for every product<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Quick swap<\/strong> \u2014 the main image is too small, but a large one is already there: in the product\ngallery or on the server.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New photo needed<\/strong> \u2014 the main image is too small and there is no larger one anywhere.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Small gallery images<\/strong> \u2014 the main image is fine, but some gallery images are under 500 \u00d7 500 px.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not checked<\/strong> \u2014 the size of an image could not be read, so the plugin does not guess.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Images under 100 \u00d7 100 px are marked separately: Google Merchant Center rejects those already today\n(clothing: under 250 \u00d7 250 px).<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Larger originals already on the server<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Very often a small product image is a thumbnail \u2014 a file whose name ends in <code>-300x300<\/code> \u2014 that was\nuploaded or imported as an image of its own, while the full picture is still there. The plugin\nlooks for:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>the full image with the same name in the Media Library;<\/li>\n<li>the full image as a file in the same folder, outside the Media Library;<\/li>\n<li>an image cropped in the WordPress image editor, whose untouched original WordPress keeps\n(\"Restore original image\").<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Where you see the result<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>One screen under <strong>Tools<\/strong>: the number of products to fix, the days left until 31 January 2027,\nand a card for each verdict with thumbnails, sizes, where the large image is, and a link to edit\nthe product.<\/li>\n<li>A CSV file with one row per image: product, SKU, size, verdict and where the larger image is.\nSemicolon separated, opens in Excel and Google Sheets.<\/li>\n<li>WP-CLI: <code>wp merchlint-product-image-size-checker scan<\/code>, with <code>--export=file.csv<\/code> for the full\nlist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>What it does not do<\/h4>\n\n<p>It <strong>never changes your products or images<\/strong>. It does not enlarge images and does not add frames:\nan enlarged small picture gets bigger, not sharper. Every finding shows the size that was read, so\nyou can check the claim before you act on it.<\/p>\n\n<p>The check runs in a single request, so on a very large catalogue it can run into your host's time\nlimit \u2014 the screen says so when that becomes likely, and the WP-CLI command has no such limit.<\/p>\n\n<h4>A small part of Merchlint<\/h4>\n\n<p>This plugin comes from the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/merchlint\/\">Merchlint<\/a>, a free\naudit of the whole WooCommerce catalogue: products that sold in the past year and can no longer be\nbought, products with no price or no photo, duplicate SKUs, sale prices that should have ended and\nimages with no alt text, each with the money at stake. This plugin carries its own copy of the\nscanning engine with its own class names, so both can run side by side.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Install and activate.<\/li>\n<li>Open <strong>Tools \u2192 Product Image Size Checker<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Press <strong>Check images now<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>For large catalogues there is a WP-CLI command: <code>wp merchlint-product-image-size-checker scan<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"what%20does%20%22image%20too%20small%20for%20upcoming%20enforcement%22%20mean%3F\"><h3>What does \"Image too small for upcoming enforcement\" mean?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>It is a warning in Google Merchant Center: the image of this offer is smaller than 500 \u00d7 500 pixels,\nthe minimum Google applies to all products from 31 January 2027. Until then the old minimum applies:\n100 \u00d7 100 pixels, or 250 \u00d7 250 for clothing. The rules are on\n<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/merchants\/answer\/6324350\">Google's help page for the image_link attribute<\/a>.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"will%20google%20reject%20every%20image%20this%20plugin%20lists%3F\"><h3>Will Google reject every image this plugin lists?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Not necessarily. Google says it will optimize some images smaller than 500 \u00d7 500 automatically, and\nit does not say which. A listed image may be rejected or replaced with an enlarged copy. Images\nunder 100 \u00d7 100 px are rejected already today; the plugin marks them separately.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"my%20original%20image%20is%20large%2C%20but%20merchant%20center%20still%20says%20it%20is%20too%20small.\"><h3>My original image is large, but Merchant Center still says it is too small.<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The plugin checks the full-size file. Some feed plugins let you choose which image size goes into\nthe feed; if yours sends a smaller size, Google gets that smaller image. Set the feed to the full\nsize.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"which%20images%20are%20not%20checked%3F\"><h3>Which images are not checked?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Images whose file is not on this server (for example images offloaded to S3 or a CDN), empty files,\nand formats whose size PHP cannot read (SVG, or AVIF on older PHP). They are listed as \"Not checked\"\nwith the reason, instead of being guessed. Drafts and private products are not checked: they do not\ngo to Google.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"can%20i%20just%20enlarge%20the%20small%20images%3F\"><h3>Can I just enlarge the small images?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The plugin does not do it, and it does not help: an enlarged small picture gets bigger, not sharper.\nUse a larger original or a new photo. Google recommends about 1500 \u00d7 1500 pixels.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20it%20change%20anything%20in%20my%20shop%3F\"><h3>Does it change anything in my shop?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. It reads products and image files and stores only the last result in one option. 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