Title: ImageMagick and WordPress
Last modified: April 27, 2022

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# ImageMagick and WordPress

 *  [alhai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhai/)
 * (@alhai)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/imagemagick-and-wordpress/)
 * Hello, some simple Questions for a expert. I have an account on IONOS, but there
   WP is only running with the GD-Library. After contacting the support, they said
   after doing some things changing php.ini and so on you can also use ImageMagick.
   But I saw there is also a Plugin for that.
 * First Question, what does ImageMagick exactly do at WordPress. I think it is 
   the working software for pictures at wordpress in the mediathek and it has got
   better options than the GD-Library, therefore it is the better way. Do I see 
   that correctly?
 * Question two, if i will install the plugin, have I to run the plugin as a PHP-
   Modul not from the command-line, provided it is already installed at the directory
   usr/bin ?
 * Would be nice to get a soon answer
    thanks Alfons from Germany

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 *  Plugin Author [Rickard Westerlind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickardw/)
 * (@rickardw)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/imagemagick-and-wordpress/#post-15608428)
 * Hi,
 * 1. This plugin makes use of ImageMagick when it is installed on the server. It
   can be installed and executed via the command line or via a PHP module. This 
   plugin supports both ways.
 * 2. You don’t have to run anything on the command line. That is what this plugin
   does for you when images are uploaded to the media library.
 *  Thread Starter [alhai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhai/)
 * (@alhai)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/imagemagick-and-wordpress/#post-15610054)
 * Hello Rickard, thanks for your answer.
 * I understand your answer in this way, it doesn’t matter how to run it either 
   in command line mode or as well as php-modul because you can the plugin configure.
 * But what is the better way or the difference to use the plugin in the mode command
   line or as php-module?
 * Again thanks a lot you
    Greetings
 *  Plugin Author [Rickard Westerlind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickardw/)
 * (@rickardw)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/imagemagick-and-wordpress/#post-15610277)
 * Very little difference. PHP module is of course a middle step. Command line is
   more direct. But nothing you will notice or should notice regarding the performance
   of the server either.

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Rickard Westerlind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickardw/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/imagemagick-and-wordpress/#post-15610277)
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