{"id":815,"date":"2024-05-07T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/how-should-i-use-shortpixel-image-optimizer-and-resize-image-after-upload\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:42:33","password":"","slug":"how-should-i-use-shortpixel-image-optimizer-and-resize-image-after-upload","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/how-should-i-use-shortpixel-image-optimizer-and-resize-image-after-upload\/","title":{"rendered":"How should I use ShortPixel Image Optimizer and Resize Image After Upload?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/resize-image-after-upload\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resize Image After Upload<\/a> (RIAU) is a plugin owned by ShortPixel that does only one but very useful function: resize your images after being uploaded. Say you got a 4000&#215;3000 image: with this plugin you&#8217;ll be able to upload it and automatically resize it to the size you want, 1920&#215;1920 for instance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plugin also allows to convert any uploaded PNG file to a JPG file, which results in a smaller file. In addition, you can choose the JPEG compression level, overriding WordPress&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/file-WABk0FdqL4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/shortpixel-image-optimiser\/\" rel=\"noopener\">ShortPixel Image Optimizer<\/a> (SPIO) is ShortPixel&#8217;s main plugin, which optimizes your images, new or existing. It has lots of features, and among them, you can also <a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/can-shortpixel-automatically-resize-new-image-uploads\/\" rel=\"noopener\">resize the images<\/a> and convert them to JPG, just as RIAU does. So how would you use both plugins at the same time? The answer is simply that <strong>if you are using SPIO, you do not need to use RIAU<\/strong>, as you will not get any benefit from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resize Image After Upload (RIAU) is a plugin owned by ShortPixel that does only one but very useful function: resize your images after being uploaded. Say you got a 4000&#215;3000 image: with this plugin you&#8217;ll be able to upload it and automatically resize it to the size you want, 1920&#215;1920 for instance. The plugin also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[41,37],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-815","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-resize-image-after-upload","doc_category-shortpixel-image-optimizer"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":158,"total_views":"1219","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Resize Image After Upload","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/resize-image-after-upload\/"},{"term_name":"ShortPixel Image Optimizer","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/shortpixel-image-optimizer\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/815\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}