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Disable gzip on WordPress

I can see WordPress enables Gzip compression on the site I disabled all plugins to ensure that no plugin enabled that And also I created a simple php script and it doesn't enable gzip by default by ...
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Blurry images when using add_image_size with crop

I've got the following image size: add_image_size( 'medium-thumb', 350, 350, true ); The images generated using the code snippet above are heavily compressed and turn blurry. This is the original ...
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Wordpress built-in compression of images? How well does it compare to Photoshop or Shortpixel?

I think the quiestion is pretty straight forward. I have around 5000 images I want to upload. I need to compress them somehow, but how?! Photoshop compression or use the built-in compression of new ...
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Gzip compression or Mod_deflate not working

Our wordpress website we need to enable gzip compression we followed below instruction to enabled. we have wp rocket plugin this plugin automatically added compression mode_deflate lines in .htaccess ...
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Restrict media upload size by format

I'm looking for a way to restrict the size of the media when uploading (a plugin or just a function). So I found this: function increase_upload_size_limit( $limit ) { return 524288; } add_filter( '...
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Custom Plugin - Package and Deployment Solutions

We are a very small company working with a specific customer base. In this, we often have to create small WP plugins specific to the customer. Typically, we re-use our own basic folder structure and ...
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Having an issue in compressing Images in wordpress site

I am having a trouble in getting my images to be compressed. Can images be automatically compressed? Is there any other solution for images compressing because its increasing my technology rental ...
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Advice on image heavy site, compression and slow page loads

I have a videogame fansite. By its nature it's image intensive. No matter how I capture the images, process them, run them through compression plugins like Smush or standalone software, I cannot ...
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Disable all resizing and compression

How do you successfully disable all image compression and resizing? I would like Wordpress to use the image exactly as it is uploaded. same pixel dimentions, same quality. I have gone down the route ...
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Should I not compress my jpeg files before uploading to avoid double compression?

Wordpress compresses jpeg files to a lvl 82 quality. Should I upload my files in 100 quality to avoid double compression? Or will Wordpress know the file is already compressed and will skip this ...
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Enable compression

I am trying to make Enable compression 100% for my website speed optimization but I can not get the result. I tried plugins: Autoptimize, w3 total cache, wp rocket, clean cache, and others. The web ...
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Stop WordPress compressing images? – Quality is terrible

I understand WordPress creates smaller versions of the original image file. These versions are blurry in comparison to the original which is a big issue as a photographer. I set up this page you can ...
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Media Gallery Upload Thumbnail Compression is Changing Image Hue

When I upload an image to my media gallery, all the image sizes that are generated are discolored. Here's an example. This is the full-size image: And now here is one of the smaller image sizes: ...
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Image Quality Thumbnail Compression in Wordpress?

I’m lost I don’t know where to turn. I am trying to get my thumbnails to NOT be compressed at all. My uploads are nice and colorful, but the thumbnails gets very visibly duller and poorer quality. I ...
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Wordpress REST API json - How to activate gzip compression?

Im currently trying to activate the gzip compression on a Wordpress website. But the json output of the wordpress embed api doesn't seem to be affected by my htaccess settings. Here they are: <...
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Make Wordpress compress full size image?

Regardless of size uploaded, I need Wordpress to compress the original full size image to 30% upon upload. Full size is the only image I use. I have already disabled all thumbnail creation upon ...
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Alternative image sizes are too large

Very new to WordPress here so still learning a lot so if anything I say here is silly then please go easy on me 😉 On a site I've created I'm using this plugin here : https://wordpress.org/plugins/...
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Run function before uploaded image is saved

I wish to run the following ImageMagick command before each image is saved to the server, how can I do so: convert image_name.jpg -sampling-factor 4:2:0 -strip -quality 85 -interlace JPEG -colorspace ...
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Setting JPEG compression for custom image sizes doesn't work in specific cases

I have a custom image size hello-image: add_image_size( 'hello-image', 700, 300, true ); Whenever an image is uploaded, I compress the cropped hello-image sized image to 40% JPEG compression. It ...
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Minify HTML, CSS, JS with PHPWee?

I want to use PHPWee to minify my site HTML, CSS and JS. Below is the code that I modified it from here: class WP_HTML_Compression { // Settings protected $compress_css = true; protected ...
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Compress WordPress core files ( JS and CSS )

I checked WordPress core files, and I found a lot of uncompressed JS and CSS files. Is there any disadvantage, if I compress these files using YUI-Compressor? Secondary question: Why didn't compress ...
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Enabling compression in .htaccess file is causing 500 internal error

This is the code I am adding to my .htaccess file for compression and browser caching and gzip. # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /wordpress/ RewriteRule ^...
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No compression occurs on my jpegs after adding jpeg_quality hook to my functions.php file

I'm attempting to perform some basic jpeg compression by using the jpeg_quality hook inside my functions.php file but there is no compression/resizing taking place. I'm only measuring file compression ...
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ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED: How to fully delete gzip compression plugins?

I disabled plugins by: UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = '' WHERE option_name = 'active_plugins'; and also renaming the plugins folder to something else. I am still getting: This site can’t be ...
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How to use lossless compression with WP_Image_Editor

I am using WP_Image_Editor through the Timber plugin and it's TimberImageHelper class. In my theme code I have: TimberImageHelper::resize($path,$w,$h,$cropArea);, which eventually (after various ...
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Google PageSpeed Enable Compression isn't working?

I am trying to improve pagespeed of my website. When I test my site it tells "Compressing https://z-1-static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/yF/r/SQ7jeOqw5xW.js could save 188.3KiB (70% reduction)." I have ...
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How to change compression of Wordpress uploads including original image

We are currently using this to change the compression used on jpgs when uploaded to the WP media library: add_filter(‘jpeg_quality’, function($arg){return 75;}); However, this does not compress the ...
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Cannot access my wp-admin after installing Gzip compression [closed]

I have installed a WP Plugin called Gzip Compression to increased the speedpage and had an awful surprised: have no access to the website at all, giving me an error of invalid form of compression, and ...
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Image increasing kb on resize

I'm trying to compress an image on upload, but it turns out that wordpress is creating 7 more copies of the image and one of the its more large in kb than the original one. (original has 15kb, resized ...
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Google Page Speed Insights - Optimize Images

The top recommendation from Google Page Speed Insights is to optimize & compress images. How do I do that? It lists dozens of images and that would be practically impossible to do it all manually. ...
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"load-scripts.php" hangs and times out when plupload is requested

I have a perplexing problem with Wordpress. When pages under /admin/ loads "load-scripts.php" with "plupload" as one of the arguments, it hangs for ever. The "Add New Post" page is one such page. For ...
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Is wordpress compressing my images? if so, how to prevent it?

I am using 'featured image' fields in my post and the images are sized and compressed already but whenever I upload an image that has some text, I keep noticing the image reduced in quality (...
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How to set the jpg image compression for specific thumbnail sizes?

This question was asked on Set JPEG compression for specific custom image sizes and answered very nicely by Ahmad M I'd of course comment to that thread but I don't have 50 point reputation... The ...
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Add Additional File Info (jpeg compression & file size) settings to Edit Images Screen

On the WordPress Edit Image Screen, I'd like to add a label to show the current compression level and byte file size of the image. Any ideas how to tap into this screen and echo this data? The ...
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How do I edit the htaccess file to optimize my website?

Hi I have tried to optimize my website energyshop.se for a cpl of days but I cant seem to get it done. This is how my .htaccess looks like: Header unset ETag FileETag None # Hantera och redirecta ...
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Wordpress DB: options-table –> 32 gzipcompression?

I just wondered what this row in the Wordpress Database refers to? 32 gzipcompression 0 I stumbled upon it in the WP options table. What if I set the value to 1. I do already have gzipcompression ...
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Set JPEG compression for specific custom image sizes

I use various custom image sizes (by add_image_size) and I have set my JPEG compression to 30% with this filter: function jpeg_quality_callback($arg) { return (int)30; } add_filter('jpeg_quality', ...
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How to keep WP from recompressing Full Size images

I have noticed that WP does have the bad habit of recompressing Full Size images during uploads. I mean, it does make sense creating several smaller versions of each uploaded image, applying a default ...
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Theme compression/ minifying or W3 Total Cache - which should I use? [closed]

I run a WP3.x Multisite setup. One of the themes I use on a site has options for minifying, using Gzip compression and using data URIs for images (not sure what the latter function is or does). In the ...
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What does the output of this plugin mean? [closed]

I just tried to compress a file and am not sure if it worked or not. The plugin I am using gave me the following results: adding: wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wpeditimage/editimage.html (deflated ...
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strange characters in wordpress website displayed for visitors [closed]

Apparently a lot of people complain that they only see random letters and characters: My biggest problem is that I can't reproduce the problem on ANY of my devices! Not on my Windows XP laptop, not ...
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Autogenerated Thumbnail compression depending on size

This is a follow up to this question, in witch the jpg compression is altered depending on what WP's built-in image resulting image size returns. While it may work for most of the people, i'm looking ...
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How to Compress PHP output in my plugin?

I never really dug into the compression options I have for my plugins and themes, so here I am. I was reading a few articles about PHP compression like this one and I had a question. Is it really as ...
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