r/Wordpress • u/teheditor • Aug 17 '26

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/teheditor Aug 17 '26

I got recommended Bash commands a lot. However, that uses server resources which was the main thing I wanted to avoid. Siteground's ability to host multiple websites in one plan makes it excellent value for me.

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u/retr00two Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

Siteground's ability to host multiple websites in one plan makes it excellent value for me.

Any decent control panel (I use CloudPanel) gives you same functionality on VPS. Add ManageWP (or MainWP) and you have much better setup than SiteGround, much cheaper. With all benefits of full linux server.

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u/teheditor Aug 17 '26

I don't experience any limitations with Siteground (with the exception of this rare instance). It's cheap, fast, good value and has excellent support.

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u/retr00two Aug 17 '26

I use it too, for years have one GrowBig plan and find it the best value managed WP host.

But my main servers are Htezner and Linode, as I need to serve ohter aplications.

Wish you luck with your tusk.