Title: WebP conversion
Last modified: May 9, 2018

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# WebP conversion

 *  Resolved [Will Stocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willstockstech/)
 * (@willstockstech)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-conversion/)
 * Hi guys,
    Is there any plan to include webp image conversion as part of Smush?
   Appreciate there’s a fair bit of work, but in terms of bandwidth, storage, speed
   and general image optimization, WebP seems to be pretty important?
 * I’m looking at ways to implement webp conversion at the moment, so would be good
   to know if Smush is going to cater for this soon(ish)?

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 *  [Andy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andywpmudev/)
 * (@andywpmudev)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-conversion/#post-10264441)
 * Hi Will,
 * Yes, WebP will be available in Smush pretty soon. Can’t give a solid ETA but 
   it won’t be too much of a wait :). Keep an eye out!
 * Cheers,
    Andy
 *  Thread Starter [Will Stocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willstockstech/)
 * (@willstockstech)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-conversion/#post-10265228)
 * That’s great news, thanks Andy!
    Are you able to share any extra info around 
   the upcoming functionality, such as: Will we be able to bulk convert existing
   images? Will Smush handle displaying WebP for sites or are we going to have to
   use something like “Cache Enabler” as per a lot of other plugins? If Smush is
   handing output of WebP images, I assume it will also handle graceful “fallback”
   to jpeg/png for non-webp users? Thanks 🙂
 *  [Andy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andywpmudev/)
 * (@andywpmudev)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-conversion/#post-10268054)
 * I’ve just confirmed a few finer details with the team.
 * 1. Yes, although WebP will be a Pro only feature served from our CDN. I haven’t
   confirmed yet whether a free version of this will be available.
    2. Yes, it will
   handle the display of the WebP images. 3. Yes, it will gracefully fallback to
   a Jpeg or PNG version.
 * Hope this helps! Keen to hear your feedback 🙂
    Andy
 *  Thread Starter [Will Stocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willstockstech/)
 * (@willstockstech)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-conversion/#post-10269087)
 * Thanks Andy – I’ll wait patiently for the functionality then.
 * I do have a question around your point 1 – will there be the option to convert
   to webp, but not use your CDN? So for those of us that use S3/Cloudfront (WP 
   Offload S3), we can still serve our content via our own CDN, as opposed to via
   your CDN? Or do you mean the conversion itself will be handled by your CDN/servers?
 *  Plugin Support [Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support6/)
 * (@wpmudev-support6)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-conversion/#post-10269959)
 * Hello [@willstockstech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willstockstech/),
 * hope you’re doing good today!
 * Currently there’s no WPMUDEV CDN for hosting/serving images that got compressed
   via Smush, these are the servers that the actual compression happens. 😉
    Smush
   is sending your images there, where it compresses them and then send them back
   into your server, if their file-size is smaller than initial image.
 * Warm regards,
    Dimitris
 *  [Andy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andywpmudev/)
 * (@andywpmudev)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-conversion/#post-10276235)
 * Hey Will,
 * Just to add on from Dimitris response… The first version of WebP conversion will
   be converted and hosted on our WPMU DEV CDNs only, I don’t believe S3 will be
   supported. With that said however, I am putting it into the pipeline to support
   S3 and non-CDN hosted webp conversion.
 * Understand that’s not ideal for your particular use case to begin with but I 
   hope it won’t be long till we support it 🙂
 * Cheers,
    Andy
 *  Thread Starter [Will Stocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willstockstech/)
 * (@willstockstech)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-conversion/#post-10276868)
 * Perfect – thanks both! Looking forward to this one 🙂

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