Option to not Krak Please

Brian Jackson
(@brianleejackson)

9 years, 2 months ago

Hello,

I use your plugin for a lot of my clients and I love it. It has become a “must have” plugin for me.

I work with tons of clients in the same niche but in different geographical locations and I am always copying out new images, etc… The problem I keep running into is this.

I need a way to not krak an image.

Example: Say I have an article for a client all setup the way I need it in AZ. Now I have a 2nd client in WA that I am doing the same article (re-written but with the same pictures). If I copy the picture and re-upload it then it kraks it twice and gets very pixelated. I don’t want to upload it via FTP because then it won’t be attached to the page/post. So the only option I have is to disable the plugin, upload the image, and then re-enable the plugin.

Is it possible to create a checkbox or something to manually upload an image without kraking it?

Thanks

https://wordpress.org/plugins/kraken-image-optimizer/

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frenchmedia
(@frenchmedia)

8 years, 12 months ago

Very good question Brian
i am planning on switching from tinypng to kraken but want to make sure that v2 is stable and works fine as all my image are currently already optimized

Thread Starter Brian Jackson
(@brianleejackson)

8 years, 12 months ago

Hi frenchmedia…

Yes I currently have Kraken running on 20+ client sites and it works good. They still don’t have an option “not to krak” when uploading but you can always disable the plugin temporarily in that regards if you need something to upload at full quality. I am nagging them to still add this option 🙂

As far as installing Kraken with a media library already optimized you have nothing to worry about. Kraken won’t try to optimize the library without you doing it. So don’t worry about it trying to compress again. It is only uploading new images that I was wishing they have a “not krak” option. Hopefully that makes sense.

As far as optimizing the images when uploading, I have found the Kraken compression to be top notch!

frenchmedia
(@frenchmedia)

8 years, 12 months ago

Ok will start to test today
I noticed you are using kinsta and wp rocket
is there a use of wp rocket I tried it in the past with no real results they were pro and refunded me as we could not save any loading time but now I moved also to kinsta and amazing service
is it worth looking to wp rocket again

frenchmedia
(@frenchmedia)

8 years, 12 months ago

Ok will start to test today
I noticed you are using kinsta and wp rocket
is there a use of wp rocket I tried it in the past with no real results they were pro and refunded me as we could not save any loading time but now I have also to kinsta and amazing service
is it worth looking to wp rocket again

Thread Starter Brian Jackson
(@brianleejackson)

8 years, 12 months ago

Yes I am on Kinsta and using WP Rocket. Because Kinsta’s caching (they have their own caching system like WP Engine) is so great, you can’t actually use the caching part of WP Rocket. It will interfere. All you can use is the CDN + lazyload portions of WP Rocket.

frenchmedia
(@frenchmedia)

8 years, 12 months ago

ok i see i have cloudlfare for CDN?
is it not a good idea
i am in Miami if there is a way we can touch base on the phone or skype

Plugin Author karim79
(@karim79)

8 years, 12 months ago

Hi Brian,

Actually, the “not to Krak” feature has been there a while now.

In Settings->Kraken.io simply uncheck the “automatically optimize uploads” checkbox.

That way, you can upload images (without having to wait for them to krak) and then do them manually from your Media Library. In other words, in this way you won’t have to keep disabling the plugin and then reactivating it.

I hope that helps,

Karim

frenchmedia
(@frenchmedia)

8 years, 12 months ago

Amazing plugin

Using the paid version since today
keep the good work

eventorism
(@eventorism)

8 years, 10 months ago

We need the ability to set a max size (Megapixels preferably… or Megabytes) for images that should not be processed.

That would be ideal for pretty much any website out there that wants to publish untouched photos with EXIF, but still use kraken.io for everything else!

Could this be added? It would be bring much awesomeness and give you the edge over pretty much all of the competitors.