Wpwatercooler - Weekly Wordpress

Today's topic we will be discussing the use of images and galleries in WordPress. There are many plugins and prebuilt solutions to help with these, we'll be exploring a few of them from the 1000ft level and then digging deeper into our favorites. Tips for working with imaged and galleries in WordPress When used correctly (as in do not upload all images or even all files from your computer onto your WordPress site) the new and improved Media Library and its ability to attach and put galleries directly into your post without needing any plugin is pretty amazing. Make sure you properly name your images so they’ll be searchable. Plugins for managing images consistency and size: WP Smush.it which is supported by WP Engine. It has a way of being able to smush down those images, remove the excess metadata and reduce the file size. Auto Image Resizer: This Plugin reduces all uploaded images to the maximal used image dimensions of your WordPress website. Imsanity: automatically resizes huge image uploads down to a siz