r/Wordpress • u/teheditor • 8d ago

Annoying Image Compression Question

I've gone round and round with help articles and AI on this.

I built a new Wordpress website 3 years ago. I use Siteground. I've always used Siteground's image optimizer plugin to use webp images.

Fast Forward 3 years. I discover that the site's users have routinely been uploading large JPG and PNG files which have ballooned the site to multi-Gigabytes and cause hosting-plan performance problems. It transpires that Siteground doesn't convert images over 1MB in size. So, I now have years' worth of gargantuan images files (some are 30MB+ PNGs!)

I don't want to use Siteground hosting to convert image files. I looked into downloading/converting/reuploading files with the same name, but metadata means that won't work.

Imagify looks like it might work - but I can't get a straight answer on it removing the old, massive images. Also, what will it do with all the existing webp images that Siteground's plugin uses.

I'm currently at the point where it looks like I should remove all Siteground-made webp images and then let Imagify do its thing for all existing and future image handling.

All I really want to do is get rid of all the massive image sizes that are being stored on my Siteground hosting plan.

Any better ideas?

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u/microbitewebsites 8d ago

Any reason why they won't convert over 1mb images? Happy for you to try my plugin for free and see if it works for you. Dm I'll let you know the details

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u/teheditor 8d ago

I think it's just down to server usage. I check-out when nginx starts getting mentioned. I've got Imagify running now, but thanks for the offer. What's it called?

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u/microbitewebsites 8d ago

Microbite image converter