you can see what has been optimized on the bulk optimize page, but from the logs, only 1 attachment with 3 resizes, and a screenshot have been optimized so far.
So, there are a couple things we can do. First, it would be useful to know what plugin you are using. Then we can hopefully see what is going on, if it is creating resizes, and if so, why they aren’t being optimized. When plugins don’t use the media library, or at the very least, use the built-in wordpress functions for editing/resizing images, it makes it much harder to optimize.
After that, it sounds like you’ve already put wp-content/uploads/2014/10 in the Folders to Optimize setting, so you’re on the right track. Then you have to either run Scan & Optimize from the Bulk Optimize page, or turn on Scheduled Optimization. If this site has a lot of existing images, the typical recommendation is like so:
1. Run the normal Bulk Optimize to catch everything in the Media Library
2. Use Folders to Optimize and the Scan & Optimize function to optimize all your existing images that are not in the Media Library
3. Modify Folders to Optimize to just include images that will be uploaded in the future and then turn on Scheduled Optimization. You could potentially do the whole wp-content/uploads/ folder, but depending on how many images you upload, that could make the scheduled scan & optimize bog down too much. So I would recommend that you include just the folder for the current month, and then update that each month. If your image load is low enough, you could maybe just do it each year.
Ideally, we can work with the other plugin author to figure out a way to make sure these images are auto-optimized on upload, so that #3 becomes unnecessary.
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sbetta
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Hi,
Thank you for the quick reply!
1. The plugin is GeorDirectory
https://wordpress.org/plugins/geodirectory/
URL: http://wpgeodirectory.com/
2. This is a brand new site so there is not much there. I am trying to get if off on the right foot. I expect that the site will have A LOT of photos and many of them will be uploaded by users (meaning customers) so I want to make sure that the photos get optimized automatically and cannot let “heavy” photos be on the site and slow it down.
3. I did not put the path in the folder until AFTER I tried to optimize the first time and it looked like the newly uploaded photos were all optimized.
I added the below to the folders to optimize under the Advanced Setting then ran the Scan & Optimize and the newly uploaded photos were optimized along with some theme stuff – so I guess it worked.
/home/woofalis/public_html/muttmaps/wp-content/uploads/2014/10
Now as I understand it the photos uploaded using the above path with only get optimized hourly (or longer between depending on site visits) or I suppose I can manually run the scan & optimize, but I am looking for a solution so that the uploaded photos will be optimized automatically as we expect a lot of photo uploads coming from many different users (customers).
Can you help me with this?
Now in November I should change the folder path to account for the month change & can I delete the October path?
BTW, the guys at GeoDirectory are awesome!
Cheers,
Stacey
Good information, I’ll try and work on that over the next month or two, but things have gotten a bit hectic around here.
So yes, I would change the path each month. What you could also do, is include the path for two months at a time (current October, and future November), to ensure that you are covered for the first part of the next month until you get the path updated. Then in November, you can drop the October path, and add December.
From what I can see, GeoDirectory is using the Media Library, which means all photos are optimized automatically upon upload, so there is no need to manually specify the ../wp-content/uploads/ folders at all.
