Activation and settings issues

Resolved Anonymous User
(@anonymized-15351932)

6 years, 1 month ago

HI

I’m testing your plugin on my staging site before activating it on my live site. I have a few questions:

1. Does the smushing alter ONLY the original images uploaded to the library and NOT the size or way they are displayed on posts/pages? There is a pop up note:

“The images listed below are being resized to fit a container. To avoid serving oversized or blurry images, try to match the images to their container sizes.
Note: It’s not always easy to make this happen, fix up what you can.”

While there aren’t any images listed there at the moment, this comment concerns me as (1) if I still need to resize every image manually while having this plugin which is supposed to do all this work for me – what do I need the plugin for? (2) This indicates that smushing CAN affect the images on the frontend, which is not good.

2. With several images that I have only one copy of in the library, the Smush result says: 8 images or 10 imaages or 15 images reduced ….etc. what are those multiple images quoted and where did they come from? IN your dashboard it says: “WordPress generates multiple image thumbnails for each image you upload”. That’s news to me. If that’s case, how come I can’t see those 15 duplicates? Where are they hidden?

Could you please address these issues for me? I need to understand exactly what this plugin does before I activate it on my main website.

thanks!

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Plugin Support Imran – WPMU DEV Support
(@wpmudev-support9)

6 years, 1 month ago

Hello @magicpowers

I trust you are doing well!

1. Does the smushing alter ONLY the original images uploaded to the library and NOT the size or way they are displayed on posts/pages?

The free version of the Smush plugin optimizes the thumbnails that are created from originally uploaded images. The thumbnails are not being resized.

It has an option from Smush > Bulk Smush that will allow resizing only the original images.

The option that mentioned in a slide-in module is “Detect and show incorrectly sized images”, located from Smush > Tools. It detects images that are larger than their container size. It means that an image, where placed in a container that has a smaller width and height defined, than an actual image.

These images need to be scaled down and replaced manually. You can deactivate “Detect and show incorrectly sized images” to not seeing this information anymore.

2. With several images that I have only one copy of in the library, the Smush result says: 8 images or 10 imaages or 15 images reduced ….etc. what are those multiple images quoted and where did they come from?

The WordPress, automatically upon image upload, creates thumbnails, a smaller version of an image that can be used on a front end. These thumbnails are defined by the theme and the plugins installed on a site.

On your site, you can either to choose to use an image thumbnails or your theme/ plugin will do it automatically. From Settings > Media, you can edit the dimensions for the WordPress default thumbnails.

These images located in /wp-content/uploads/ directory.

For more detailed information please see this article
https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/functionality/featured-images-post-thumbnails/

Kind regards,
Nastia

Thread Starter Anonymous User
(@anonymized-15351932)

6 years, 1 month ago

Hi @wpmudev-support9

thanks for your reply.

There are still a couple of points that I find confusing.

1. You keep referring to the thumbnails of the original images, saying that they are optimised on the front end, as if thumbnails were the only size in which the images can be displayed.

When I want to insert an image from my media library into a page or post, I can select one of the three available sizes: original, medium and thumbnail. Some of my images are in their original size (which I might have adjusted manually in the editor), some are medium and some thumbnails. Not all of them are thumbnails. So my question is – are you referring to thumbnails generically or specifically? meaning that images in other size than thumbnails are NOT being optimised on the front end?

2. I understand the relationship between an image and its container. However,I’m not sure why you mention it at all, as I never insert a container first and then the image – I don’t handle containers on my site at all. When I want to insert an image into a post or page, I click on ADD MEDIA, select one from the library and insert it in the size I want. At which point in this process do I need to be concerned with the container for my image?

I would be grateful for your advice.

thanks 🙂

Plugin Support Imran – WPMU DEV Support
(@wpmudev-support9)

6 years, 1 month ago

Hello @magicpowers

I hope you are doing well!

1. Thumbnails, no matter their size if it is Large, Medium or Small, are all the resized versions from original images. On your site images with sizes original, medium and thumbnail are being optimized by Smush.

2. Usually, a container dimension where an image is located is pre-defined by an active theme on your site. Unless an option is given to change its size, which can happen if a Page Builder is used. Container size can also be changed with CSS.

You can follow the Smush suggestion and resize images according to their container size, to improve the performance score.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Nastia
Thread Starter Anonymous User
(@anonymized-15351932)

6 years, 1 month ago
Hi @wpmudev-support9

Thanks for your reply.
You have clarified my question 1.

My question 2 still remains unanswered and it is a mystery, as once again, I don’t have ANY constraints or predefined containers for inserting images on my website – unless I use Page Builder with the Image widget. Normally, I can insert any image from my library of any size and modify its size on the page in any way I want to any size constrained only by the size of the page.

So, the concept of “image container” and the need to modify an image to fit the container is foreign to me, as I have never had to deal with it (and I myself have built my website).

UPDATE – I have just checked the link you have provided in your earlier reply – it is a WP article about Featured Images.

So you have been referring all along to FEATURED IMAGES – which is a different issue, not any images inserted in the page/post -and so it’s importnat to specify them. Yes, I know that Featured Images have containers. I don’t use this feature, but simply insert images to pages via ADD MEDIA feature which doesn’t have any containers.

Anyway, I note your comments for future reference and will leave it at that.

thanks again.
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Plugin Support Imran – WPMU DEV Support
(@wpmudev-support9)

6 years, 1 month ago

Hello @magicpowers

I trust you are doing well!

Since you have a notification that says "The images listed below are being resized to fit a container." this means that the images of a certain size, ar positioned in a container that has a smaller size.

Please share here a link to your site where this message is shown so we could have a closer look

Bu thumbnails, I mean all images that are created from originally uploaded images, not only the feature images.

Please advise,

Kind regards,
Nastia

Thread Starter Anonymous User
(@anonymized-15351932)

6 years, 1 month ago

hi @wpmudev-support9

thanks – as I indicated above all is clear.

regards

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