Title: cwebp support
Last modified: November 5, 2020

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# cwebp support

 *  Resolved [alexfeel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexfeel/)
 * (@alexfeel)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cwebp-support/)
 * Hello,
 * Please tell me do you have any plans to enable support for [cwebp encoder](https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/cwebp)
   like [this plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-express/) did? This plugin
   has a bug that prevents it from working with images that have non-latin symbols
   in their names.
 * I use Dreamhost as my hosting provider and they said that there is no the GD 
   or Imagick for the latest PHP version they use. At the same time their cwebp 
   encoder works as it should.

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 *  Plugin Author [Mateusz Gbiorczyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mateuszgbiorczyk/)
 * (@mateuszgbiorczyk)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cwebp-support/#post-13627468)
 * Hi [@alexfeel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexfeel/),
 * Thank you for your message.
 * At the moment I do not plan to add support for another converter. I would like
   to use the libraries available in PHP. I want the plugin to be compact.
 * Using the cwebp library means placing the library files in the plug-in for each
   system and testing it on each environment separately. I don’t want to overload
   the plug. Additionally, I would like to double-check every functionality to ensure
   it works perfectly.
 * I think you understand me.
 * It is very strange that your hosting does not support these libraries, even though
   they have been around for many years. WebP for GD has been available in PHP since
   version 5.4.
 *  Thread Starter [alexfeel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexfeel/)
 * (@alexfeel)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cwebp-support/#post-13629290)
 * Hi [@mateuszgbiorczyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mateuszgbiorczyk/),
   thanks for the update, I completely understand 👌

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 * Last reply from: [alexfeel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexfeel/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cwebp-support/#post-13629290)
 * Status: resolved