If your site runs through Cloudflare, you’ve probably noticed the Polish setting in your dashboard. One click, and Cloudflare starts compressing your images. So it’s a fair question: if Cloudflare already does that, does Polish replace an image optimization plugin?…
“Compress your images before you upload them” is one of the oldest pieces of WordPress advice around. It’s also one of the least examined. The short answer: once ShortPixel is running on your site, you don’t need to compress or…
Many managed WordPress hosts advertise “built-in image optimization” somewhere on their pricing or feature pages. It sounds like one feature, but in practice, each host has taken a different approach, and each one solves a slightly different part of the…
Yes, image optimization can remove your embedded copyright information if metadata gets stripped along the way. Compression itself doesn’t automatically erase it. That’s a separate step, although image optimization tools often handle both in the same process. Most people never…
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…