Every image optimization plugin is easy to install. Almost nobody thinks about what happens when you take one out. But it comes up more often than you’d expect. You’re switching tools, you’ve taken over a client site with a plugin…
Headless WordPress solves a lot of problems. Images aren’t one of them. You keep the editor your team already knows, you get a Next.js frontend that feels instant, and everyone’s happy, right up until someone runs Lighthouse on a post…
The short answer: yes. If the European Accessibility Act applies to your website, your images need text alternatives, and for ordinary web images that means alt text. The longer answer is that the Act never uses the words “alt text”…
You export a logo as SVG, drag it into the Media Library, and WordPress refuses it: “Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.” Which feels wrong. SVG is a web standard, modern browsers handle it, and for…
You upload mountain-view.jpg. A week later you copy the image URL off a page, and it says mountain-view-scaled.jpg. No plugin did that. Nobody renamed your file. WordPress did it the second you hit upload, and it’s been doing it since…
We’re excited to announce that ShortPixel image optimization is now available for Drupal! The ShortPixel ImageAPI Optimize Processor is live on Drupal.org, and it brings the same compression engine our WordPress users have relied on for over a decade straight…