Managing image backups generated during optimization shouldn’t eat up your disk space. And AI-generated SEO data shouldn’t feel out of control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new update is officially live, and it tackles both, plus a long list of compatibility fixes, stability improvements, and quality-of-life upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s what’s new in this release!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A handful of brand-new features that change how you work with backups and AI inside ShortPixel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until now, ShortPixel backed up every image variant, originals plus all the thumbnails WordPress generates. Safe, but heavy on disk space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smart Backups change that. Only the main image gets backed up, and thumbnails are automatically regenerated based on the main image when you restore. Same safety net, much lighter footprint, a lot less disk space used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This new option allows you to automatically delete old backups after a chosen period, so storage never gets out of control. Set it once and forget about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you’re using the AI Image SEO feature to generate alt text or image SEO data, you can now add fixed text before or after the AI SEO data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Want every alt text to end with “| Your Brand Name”? Or start with a category prefix? It’s now built in, keeping your AI-generated SEO data consistent across the whole site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Re-optimize images directly from Custom Media bulk actions, without needing to add your custom media folders again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New pagination controls make it much easier to navigate large media sets in Custom Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beyond the new features, we’ve polished a lot of details across the plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’ve also made ShortPixel play nicer with several plugins you might already be using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Multiple improvements to backup reliability, queue stability, database performance, and frontend behavior. The highlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plus smaller fixes around long-processing safeguards, alias API key handling, AI disabled message cleanup, and filesize-based exclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smart Backups alone is a reason to update. If you’re running a site with thousands of images, the disk space you’ll save is significant, and you’ll still have a full backup system protecting you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You get more control over your backups, with automatic cleanup that handles housekeeping for you. You get more control over AI-generated SEO data, with consistent prefixes and suffixes that keep your site’s voice unified. You get more control in multilingual setups, thanks to WPML support. And you get fewer surprises, with cleaner error messages and a more reliable backup system underneath everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s the kind of update that makes ShortPixel quietly better at the things you do every day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n