Puneet Tiwari

Digital Creatings AVIF WebP Image Optimizer is developed by Puneet Tiwari and built for practical, server-friendly image optimization on real WordPress sites.
Instead of converting images only during page requests, it can queue conversion jobs and process them in controlled batches via WP-Cron (and optional shutdown processing). This helps reduce page-time CPU spikes on medium and large media libraries.
Key capabilities:
<ul>
<li>Converts images to AVIF and/or WebP depending on your selected mode and server support.</li>
<li>Supports responsive desktop/mobile variants with configurable quality and max width.</li>
<li>Scans your media library and queues missing variants with progress reporting.</li>
<li>Background queue controls: batch size, time limit, cron interval, retry failed, clear pending/failed, stop and clear queue.</li>
<li>Optional lazy loading support for image tags.</li>
<li>Optional Gravatar caching to local disk (with optimized variants where possible).</li>
<li>Optional CSS background processing for inline <code>style</code> attributes and <code><style></code> blocks.</li>
<li>Live admin dashboard for queue and cache status.</li>
</ul>
Designed for production safety:
<ul>
<li>Queue-based processing to avoid heavy one-request workloads.</li>
<li>Pending queue guardrails to prevent unbounded backlog growth.</li>
<li>Recovery-oriented controls for scan pause/resume and queue maintenance.</li>
</ul>
About Digital Creatings:
Digital Creatings AVIF WebP Image Optimizer is maintained by Puneet Tiwari (<code>puneetbca</code>) to provide reliable, performance-focused WordPress tooling for businesses and agencies.
Website: https://www.digitalcreatings.com 
Support: https://www.digitalcreatings.com/contact/
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin can optionally connect to Gravatar (Automattic) to download comment author profile images when Cache Gravatars is enabled in the plugin settings.
<ul>
<li>What it is used for: Gravatar supplies default avatar images for WordPress comments and author profiles. The plugin downloads those images once, converts them locally to AVIF/WebP when possible, and serves cached copies from your site to reduce third-party requests.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: Only when Gravatar caching is enabled and a page or comment displays a Gravatar URL (typically <code>secure.gravatar.com</code>), the plugin sends an HTTP GET request for that avatar image URL and size. No WordPress user account data, email addresses, or site content beyond the public Gravatar URL is transmitted by this plugin.</li>
<li>Service provider: Gravatar (Automattic) — <a href="https://en.gravatar.com/site/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>, <a href="https://automattic.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</li>
</ul>
All other image optimization is performed locally on your server. Original uploads and generated cache files remain on your hosting unless you configure separate CDN or backup services outside this plugin.
<h3>Technical Notes</h3>
If you are integrating or extending behavior, these hooks are available:
<ul>
<li><code>dcawio_defaults</code> – Filter default settings.</li>
<li><code>dcawio_is_excluded</code> – Filter image URL exclusion behavior.</li>
<li><code>dcawio_skip_img_rewrite</code> – Filter per-image rewrite skip logic.</li>
<li><code>dcawio_max_queue_batch_size</code> – Filter maximum allowed queue batch size.</li>
<li><code>dcawio_admin_queue_jobs_limit</code> – Filter number of jobs shown in admin queue list.</li>
</ul>
Cache and queue behavior depends on server CPU, available image libraries, and cron reliability. For large libraries, prefer queue mode with conservative batch/time limits and monitor progress from the dashboard.

Digital Creatings AVIF WebP Image Optimizer

Convert media images to AVIF/WebP with a background queue, responsive variants, and automatic picture-element delivery.

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This WordPress plugin provides integration with our SaaS <a href="https://www.imghaste.com/" title="Image Service" rel="nofollow ugc">Image Service</a> 
By leveraging the Power of <a href="https://www.imghaste.com/blog/client-hints-explained" rel="nofollow ugc">Client Hints</a>.
We’ve chosen to integrate to WordPress via a Service Worker in order to provide best possible compatibility against 
Caching plugins (e.g. W3TC, WPSuper Cache, Elementor…) as well as images coming from your CSS files.
This way you won’t have to rewrite your URLS and lose your images SEO juice.
Nor you will get overcharged in case of a BOT crawl your website.
WHAT DOES THIS PLUGIN DO?
This plugin registers a Service Worker, providing Progressive Web App functionalities to your 
website in order to intercept your Images in order to automatically detect the best possible Image required by your end user.
Since we are speed monkeys, we need to say that the required javascript 
that will load on your page is 708 bytes gzipped. (without a k)
FEATURES OUT OF THE BOX:
<ul>
<li>White Label.</li>
<li>Automatic Integration.</li>
<li>Removes EXIF information.</li>
<li>Compatible with Page Builders.</li>
<li>Effective Connection Type Detection.</li>
<li>Quality drop on slow 3g or Save Data on.</li>
<li>Backup your images for Disaster recovery.</li>
<li>Works with images coming from CSS files.</li>
<li>Search Engines will grab the origin images.</li>
<li>Works with images coming from Ajax requests.</li>
<li>Compatible with Caching / Lazy Load plugins.</li>
<li>Backup your original image safely in the cloud.</li>
<li>Automatic AVIF Conversion based on browser support.</li>
<li>Automatic WebP Conversion based on browser support.</li>
<li>Progressive JPEGs & Interlaced PNGs as Net Gen fallback.</li>
</ul>
FULLY WHITE-LABEL
One of the reasons we decided to go with this approach is no other than SEO. 
Using Client Hints Combined with Service Worker will get you all the performance benefits 
for your end users without the SEO disadvantages that comes with the URL Rewrite.
WHY ITS IMPORTANT NOT TO CHANGE IMAGE URLS
In case you rewrite your image urls into something else all 
SEO juice from all image urls goes to the Vendor domain 
even if the urls contain a canonical name, they are still searchable using the vendor url.
PREREQUISITES
<ul>
<li>Your website runs https only</li>
<li>Your website doesn’t have a Service Worker already.</li>
</ul>
IMPORTANT
This plugin is not compatible with other plugins that registers a Service Worker. You’ll need to disable other plugins 
that registers a service worker on your website or use our <a href="https://www.imghaste.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Integration Guide</a> and lose the white label feature.

AVIF, WebP, Image Optimization, CDN, Service Worker & Client Hints All in One

Speed up your website using cutting edge Image Service. Service Worker, Client Hints, WebP, 100% white labeled. NO URL Rewrite required.

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