sirvo
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Thank you for responding.
So to clearly establish what happens, is the following true:
1 – I add a media file to my content – for example, I select an image from my media library to be used in a DIVI Image module.
2 – Although in the DIVI Image Module dialog I was presented with the original “unshmushed” contents of my media library and selected an “unshmushed” version of an image, WordPress somehow does not actually use the “unshmushed” image I selected. Instead, it automatically selects one of the smushed image size versions of this image and uses this compressed image instead.
Is this really what happens? Or am I misunderstanding something?
This is why as an embedded systems programmer I am so uncomfortable with web page design. I’m accustomed to having full visibility of what code does. This WordPress and DIVI is basically asking me to take it on faith that the right thing is happening, somewhere in the background invisibly. AGH!
Predrag, I have two questions:
I installed Smush after I’d already populated various ET (DIVI) modules with uncompressed images i’d uploaded to my media library.
After running Smush I see where Smush reports the compression of 8 standard WordPress versions of any single image I have uploaded.
Question 1: Do I have to re-load my images into the various modules from my now-smushed media library before I derive the benefit of faster page loads for my site users?
Question 2: I am confused about how these 8 images are actually used by wordpress. When I go through the process of uploading an image into, lets say the ‘image module’, the dialog takes me to the media library but the only image file I can actually select is the one I originally loaded. Does WordPress automatically pick one of the smaller formats and deliver your smushed version of my image in that format to the image module? If not, how do I make use of these smushed formats?
I’m an embedded systems programmer, and I’ve read the docs I could find. Still confused. If I missed the place where everyone else learns all this basic stuff, could you supply a link?
Thank you!
“Ow yea, you have to rename the file to “something”.zip and extract it and Then upload.”
This is the only text on this plugin site I’ve found that addresses the question, “How do I use a backup to recover or recreate my lost web site?”
Have I missed something? Is there a companion “recover” plugin or something?