{"id":19030209,"date":"2026-09-26T19:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T19:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/import-of-webp-files\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T19:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T19:09:57","slug":"import-of-webp-files","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/import-of-webp-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Import of webp-files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some time I have practised import of images in the webp-format instead of jpg. My images have always been reduced in bytes (by way of quality and literal size compared to original photo). Webp does this better than jpg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have also been an active user of the &#8220;Alt &amp; Title Text \/ Description&#8221; fields, as well as &#8220;Tags&#8221;. I find that imported jpg-files usually keep such meta information intact. However, webp-files don&#8217;t. They merely insert the file name into the Title Text field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, this causes a huge extra job in manually (re-)inserting the missing information in uploaded files. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do I fix this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19030209","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19030209","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\/19030209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19030209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}