Stuck at .htaccess Requirement Page

If you don’t want to change your .htaccess file, then you can not use this plugin, because the main idea of this plugin can work only with changes in .htaccess file

If you want to just generate webp versions of your images, then use SSH command to do that,
or just a simple PHP loop for files and to that,
or change htaccess generate images and then change htaccess back and deactivate this plugin…

If you changed .htaccess and it’s still not working, then your server probably doesn’t support webp and you need to contact your hosting provider, or you have some non-standard WP setup and this plugin cannot handle it… hard to say without more info

Thanks for the speedy response.

Question: can Imagick retain the metadata of the file upload when converting it to WebP?

I found a code snippet that works for me, but it does not retain the metadata.

Sorry, but I have no idea what you mean by “metadata”.

My plugin does no changes in database so all attachment post meta are unchanged.

Or if you mean EXIF data, then I don’t know, because I’ve never tried that as my goal was to make the file as small as possible, so I’ve never cared about some extra data.

I am referring to EXIF / XMP data – if you don’t mind, can you please test on an environment using this plugin and let me know if it retained the EXIF data. Thanks in advance

No, sorry, I don’t know anything about WebP and EXIF data and there is no plan to make it part of this plugin, so you need to do your own tests.

Understood – wishing you a rewarding and relaxing weekend

Thank you very much, you’re very kind ??
Good luck and have a nice weekend too!