3 stars for the moment – i need some explanation

Thanks for taking time to review my plugin!

A few notes:

in few hours, i’ll have probably a lot of 404 error status due to image not found.

I think you’re missing something here.
There shouldn’t be any errors from a CDN because the original files are kept intact by default (never get deleted). UNLESS, you choose (via plugin settings) to delete originals upon upload. (Which by the way, won’t happen retroactively, only for new files that get uploaded.)
So you shouldn’t worry about getting 404’s. If this in fact has happened to you, I will appreciate to get the details from you so I can improve the plugin and make it useful to many people as possible.

Can you tell me more about this? Do you plan to let the user choose if the prefix will be added or not after the process?

I’m planning to make this as default, but still keep the original files (which will be renamed to wsi-*.)
Do you think this will be useful for you?

Moreover, the API you are using is free… for the moment because in beta. But they will probably makes pay user to use it. Do you plan to add others API in the futur? And some automatic resize option in order to let us specify a max width and height?

True that! My idea is to expand this plugin to other APIs so in case one isn’t free anymore, you’ll be able to fall back to a different service. Also, there will be manual control over the services, for maximum control.

Regarding resize for max width/height — I’m not sure how useful it is, by the way the plugin works now (sends image to optimization service -> stores new files -> runs over all registered image sizes and slices them into individual files.)

If you have any ideas, I’m open to hear.

Again, thanks for the feedback!

Hi,

You gained one more star for responding :p It’s always important to have feedbacks and feelings about the devs of a new plugin.

Regarding the renaming of the files : yes, I choosed to erase original images in order to have only the optimized images stored. I don’t really need to keep original one, for my project.

In facts, i’m building a website where every logged in users will be able to submit a new post, directly in the frontend, with the ability to put images in this frontend post system. And I don’t want to make the process too much difficult for them, like restricting with a small file size (<1 Mo) or limited at X width or Y height.

And if I want to make a submission process easy for my guests, I need then an automated system which will “optimize” the images with the best web standards. That’s why I was asking about the possibility to resize + optimize, for website likes mine who have set a standard image max width for all their post. This will be just a pain… I’m pretty sure lot of people will find this feature very useful.

I have actually a system like this by combining YOUR plyin, and this one for the resize : https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/resize-image-after-upload/ 40000 active users isn’t nothing, there’s is a “demand” ^^ But the perfect thing will be to have one and only one plugin dedicated plugin these tasks… in order to avoid any futur conflicts.

I was speaking about my project because it gives you a good example of how your plugin will be usefull for my case. And I’m sure I’m not an isolated case, and lot of people will be happy to have a plugin like described below. Not a joke, I’m not rich, but I’ll be able to pay the standard prize of a premium addon for a plugin offering these features.

Last point about the rename process : the solution to rename original files in wsi-* is better imo. The most important thing is that the optimized images need to have the same name as the original ones. So yes, better rename the original files with your wsi prefix, and then give the optimized mages with the default names. This will keep the original files intact, and will not makes 404 error for some hardcodes a webmaster can put. No more missing background in our CSS we made 3 years ago, because the CSS file indicates to display bg-image.jpg and the file is now wsi-bg-image.jpg.

I hope this will help a bit.

Regards.

Just to let you know that the author of the API is going to be live the next month. Without the addition of other free API, i’ll probably delete it.