Smush
What does it do? Reduce image file sizes, improve performance and boost your SEO using the free WPMU DEV WordPress Smush API.
Details:
-Optimize images, turn on lazy load, resize, compress & improve your Google Page Speed
- Lossless Compression – Strip unused data and compress images without affecting image quality.
- Lazy Load – Defer offscreen images with the flip of a switch.
- Bulk Smush – Optimize & compress up to 50 images with one click.
- Image Resizing – Set a max width and height and large images will scale down as they are being compressed.
- Incorrect Size Image Detection – Quickly locate images that are slowing down your site.
- Directory Smush – Optimize images even if they are not located in the media library.
- Automated Optimization – Asynchronously auto-smush your attachments for super fast compression on upload.
- Without Monthly Limits – Optimize all of your images up to 5MB in size, free forever (no daily, monthly, or annual caps).
- Gutenberg Block Integration – View all Smush stats directly in image blocks.
- Multisite Compatible – Offers both global and individual Multisite settings.
- Process All Your Files – Smush will process PNG, JPEG, and GIF files for optimum results.
- Super Servers – Smush images with no slowdown using WPMU DEV’s fast, reliable Smush API.
- Convert to WebP (Pro Only) – Upgrade and automatically serve images in Next-Gen WebP format.
- Configs – Set your preferred Smush settings, save them as config, and instantly upload to any other site.
Positive Reviews:
“It just works”
It does a good job reducing the file sizes.
“Great plugin to handle images”
Easy and great. It does what it should. Great job!
Negative Reviews:
“REMOVED ALL IMAGES; DO NOT INSTALL”
This plugin removed all of my images on my website, do NOT install this trash plugin.
The amount of people who complain about this VS people who hadn’t run into this problem *yet* is too small to be noticeable in the reviews section, but make no mistakes, this problem happens consistently for a small percent of people who install this plugin.
RUN A BACKUP ON YOUR WEBSITE BEFORE SMUSHING!
This plugin is trash and EVERYONE should be careful before activating – you either lose all your images or everything works decent and you save 13% on your image sizes.
Reached out to developers and still haven’t heard back in 13 days… what a shame.
“I’d give it less than a star if I could”
I downloaded “smush” to compress my images as recommended by a website training course I signed up for…. DISASTER! After almost a whole day of apparently compressing the images, my site wouldn’t load at all!! No access to half my pages! I reversed the process which involved staying up til 3am to keep the screen open as it will abort if the screen goes off apparently, and still it’s taken me the whole weekend to put everything back in order as it interfered with my top bar menu, footer, all sorts of things I didn’t really think it’d need to touch. This was the ONLY plugin that I had installed (I always activate one at a time, till I make sure they work, thankfully!) Gutted! I still need to compress my images but very very nervous to try now! By the nature of my business, I need to include a LOT of images on my site. I’m using the ASHE PRO theme and have the latest versions of WP and PHP. I have no idea what went wrong but I would NOT recommend this plugin to anyone!
I like the plug-in, I think i will be very useful and convenient. By using this plug-in, I won’t have to resize pictures in photoshop.