Re-compressing images

  • Hi,

    I have a self-hosted wordpress blog where the main writer uploaded images over the recent years. However, most of them have a terrible compression ratio. Images are 2MB large and could be much smaller with a 70% compression.

    In order to fix this, there are some issues: 1st of all the media library does not show file sizes. So I would have to download the whole thing, re-compress all files and upload it again. Also, the interface does not allow the re-upload of existing media library entries. So I have to remove the image from the article, re-upload the new one and insert it again or do the whole thing via FTP.

    Any one knows the most effective method to do this?
    thanks a lot!

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    I’ve never tried it before, but it seems like you should be able to use your FTP client to replace the actual image file with one of the same filename.

    Thread Starter uncovery

    (@uncovery)

    Yeah, I am sure this is possible. I was wondering if there is a way to see the largest files in the media manager and to changing the compression w/o uploading a new file…

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