Super-detailed Nanny Tutorial: Teach You to Convert WebP Images in WordPress and Speed Up Your Website.

Often times, we find WordPress website opens slowlyThe reason for this is often that the web pages in theToo many picturesand each image of theThe file sizes are very largePlus the server.Limited bandwidth, these factors combine to cause the page to take too long to load.

Therefore.Optimized imagesIt becomes one of the key ways to improve the speed of your website.By reducing the file size of images, you can not only speed up the loading of web pages, but also improve the overall user experience and SEO performanceTheIn this post, I'm going to take you step-by-step through how to implement WebP image conversion in WordPress.This is a modern image format that can dramatically reduce file size while maintaining quality, helping you to effectively improve your website's performance.

pre-conditions

• You can visit the WordPress backend and install the plugin.
• The site has enabled media library access to ensure that images can be uploaded and managed.

Process Introduction

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How to Implement WebP Image Conversion in WordPress

In order to implement WebP image conversion in WordPress, you can either use a plugin to convert the image format automatically or do it manually. Here are the detailed steps for both methods:

Method 1: Manual conversion to WebP format

This approach is moresimplerThe following is an example of a program that is suited for people who need toFine control of image qualityOr justConvert a small number of imagesThe situation. This method requires you to have some knowledge of image manipulation.

Use of online tools maybe Image editing software for conversion

Online Tools

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Photo editing software

Use of online tools ::

• show (a ticket) SquooshThis is a free online tool provided by Google to quickly convert images in JPEG or PNG format to WebP. As shown in Figure 1.1.
• Upload a picture: Click on the page "Upload a picture" button to select the image to be converted.
• Adjusting Compression Settings: In the menu on the right, select "Compress" in the first one. After selecting the WebP format, you can adjust the quality, compression rate and other parameters as needed. (As shown in Figure 1.2 , Figure 1.3)
• Download converted images: When the adjustment is complete, click "downloading" button to save the WebP image to your computer.

Figure 1.1 Squoosh online tool

Figure 1.2 Squoosh selection screen

fulfillment

utilization Photoshop maybe GIMP carry out a conversion(This tutorial uses GIMP as an example, because GIMP is easy to use and free.)

Additional Introduction:

• Photoshop: After installing the WebP plugin, you can access the WebP plugin in Photoshop via the "save as (a file)" option saves the image in WebP format.
• GIMP: GIMP is a free and open source image processing software that supports exporting images directly to WebP format. After opening the image, select "File > Export as", and then select the WebP format.

GIMP has aSave Webp's built-in features, the GIMP is a bit strange in that if you try to save an image, the GIMP only allows you to save it as an XCF file. If you want to save it as any other file type (such as WebP, JPG or PNG), theIt needs to be exportedThe

Sep1 : Upload your pictures to GIMP.

Sep2: In the menu bar above, select " File ", then select " EXport As ... "

Sep3: Change the name to "xxx.webp", (e.g. if your file name is "guangzi.png" was replaced by "guangzi.webp"), and click "Export".

Sep4: Follow the prompts to select the format you want to export to. Before the GIMP exports an image to WebP format, you will see a pop-up window asking you how much quality you want to keep in the new image. If you don't want to lose any quality, check the "Lossless (Loss)" box; if this is not a concern for you, adjust the slider to meet your needs.

strike (on the keyboard)“Export“

Uploading and replacing images

1. Uploading WebP images
   • Log in to the WordPress backend and go to "media library", click on "Add New Media" button to upload the just converted WebP image.
2. Replace existing image links
   • Edit a post or page to manually replace an existing image link with an uploaded WebP image. You can do this via the "Insert Media" function selects a new WebP image to replace the original.