• Resolved Lupe

    (@erskine4730)


    Problem: Have a WP site with approximately 22,000 photos of about 6mb each already uploaded to the media library over the past 7 years. These photos are all used on the active site. Looking for a solution that can re-size all of these old images to max 2560 px H or W while maintaining the same aspect ratio without having to re-upload them, and that will then apply the newly re-sized images to the active site.

    Ideally, the solution would delete the old original 6 mb images from the media library, saving the re-sized images instead, while retaining proper placement on the live site along with the captions, descriptions, etc. associated with the old original image. In other words, I want the live site to be otherwise unaffected without having to do anything beyond resizing the existing 6mb images already in the media library.

    Question: Can ShortPixel do this? I’m only interested in re-sizing (scaling), not compression or other optimization techniques. Is there a way to accomplish this efficiently (in bulk), so that it can happen with a few clicks rather than requiring me to set up the process 22,000 times?

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  • Plugin Support Gerard Blanco

    (@sixaxis)

    Hi Lupe,

    Unfortunately, ShortPixel cannot do that. Our plugin can resize your past images through the Bulk Optimization but compression is always enabled and cannot be disabled.

    However, you can always use the Lossless compression method, which gives as a result a virtually identical image pixel by pixel. There is no quality loss. I think this should work for you ??

    Best,

    Thread Starter Lupe

    (@erskine4730)

    Hi, Gerard:

    Thank you for the response. Sounds encouraging with the lossless compression. Tried working with the Short Pixel plugin for a little while this morning, but couldn’t quite figure out what to do with it. Going to come back to it when I have more time to play around with it some more.

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