{"id":18998135,"date":"2026-08-20T09:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/imagick-unavailable-switch-to-gd\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:28:33","slug":"imagick-unavailable-switch-to-gd","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/imagick-unavailable-switch-to-gd\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagick unavailable \u2013 switch to GD?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello,<br \/><br \/>I have been using the free version of Converter for Media for some time now, and I am very satisfied with it.<br \/><br \/>However, I have just noticed an issue. I currently have 427 images remaining to be converted to WebP. When I start the bulk optimization, I get the following message for each image: \u201cServer configuration: Imagick module is not available with this PHP installation.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The PHP version installed on my website is 8.5.9.<br \/><br \/>I also noticed that, in the Advanced Settings, the selected conversion method is Imagick, but the option is greyed out and the only available method is GD.<br \/><br \/>Should I switch the conversion method from Imagick to GD, or is there something else I should configure on my server?<br \/><br \/>Thank you for your help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18998135","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18998135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18998135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18998135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}