WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform

Alex Dunae

<p><strong>Compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load automatically with the powerful Smush image optimizer to keep your WordPress site fast, without losing quality.</strong></p>
<p>Smush makes it easy to optimize images, compress images, and deliver images faster across your entire WordPress site. This all-in-one image optimizer automatically reduces image file sizes, enables image lazy load, and serves modern formats like WebP and AVIF, all without breaking image quality or adding extra work.</p>
<p>Whether you’re running a blog, store, or portfolio, Smush helps you optimize images at scale and keep your site fast with a trusted WordPress image optimizer.</p>
<p><strong>Trusted by 1+ Million Sites | 4.8/5 Star Rating</strong></p>
<p>Get everything you need to optimize images and speed up your site. Smush works out of the box with no complicated setup – just install and let it handle the rest.</p>
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<h3>Compress images without losing quality</h3>
<p>Reduce image file size automatically while keeping your images sharp and clear. Smush is an easy-to-use image optimizer which let’s you compress images using both lossless and lossy compression, giving you the best balance of quality and performance without extra work.</p>
<p>You can also compress images outside the media library using Directory Smush, making it easy to optimize images stored in theme folders, plugins, or other directories on your server.</p>
<h3>Lazy load images for faster pages</h3>
<p>Enable image lazy load across your site so images load only when needed. This image optimizer improves initial page speed and creates a smoother experience for visitors without extra configuration.</p>
<h3>Serve WebP and AVIF images automatically (<a href="https://wpmudev.com/project/wp-smush-pro/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=smush-readme-next-gen" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO</a>)</h3>
<p>Convert images to WebP and AVIF and serve them automatically to supported browsers. Smush helps you optimize images using next-gen formats to reduce file size and improve load times across your WordPress site.</p>
<h3>Deliver images faster with an Image CDN (<a href="https://wpmudev.com/project/wp-smush-pro/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=smush-readme-cdn" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO</a>)</h3>
<p>Serve images through a global image CDN to reduce latency and improve load times for visitors around the world.</p>
<ul>
<li>119 global CDN servers</li>
<li>Up to 500 GB of bandwidth</li>
<li>Faster image delivery based on visitor location</li>
<li>Improved performance for image-heavy and high-traffic sites</li>
</ul>
<h3>Automatically resize and fix image dimensions (<a href="https://wpmudev.com/project/wp-smush-pro/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=smush-readme-auto-resize" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO</a>)</h3>
<p>Eliminate common PageSpeed warnings and improve layout stability with automatic image sizing. Smush dynamically resizes images to perfectly fit their containers, regardless of original size, helping fix the “Properly size images” warning in Google PageSpeed Insights.</p>
<p>It also automatically adds missing width and height attributes to your images, improving rendering speed and reducing layout shifts. This helps you meet the “Ensure images have explicit width and height” recommendation without any manual work.</p>
<h3>Optimize your entire site, automatically</h3>
<p>Smush works across your whole site as a powerful image optimizer to optimize images as you upload them and maintain performance over time without manual work.</p>
<ul>
<li>Optimize images automatically on upload</li>
<li>Compress images in bulk or individually</li>
<li>Works with your existing media library</li>
<li>No need to re-upload images</li>
<li>Enable image lazy load across your site</li>
<li>Convert images to WebP and AVIF</li>
<li>Deliver images with an integrated image CDN</li>
<li>Automatically resize and serve correctly sized images</li>
<li>Optimize images outside the media library with Directory Smush</li>
</ul>
<h3>Built for performance</h3>
<p>Smush improves page speed and overall performance by reducing image weight and improving how images are delivered.</p>
<ul>
<li>Reduce page load times</li>
<li>Improve user experience</li>
<li>Better performance for image-heavy pages</li>
<li>Supports image lazy load and preload images (PRO) for faster perceived performance</li>
</ul>
<h3>Works with your existing setup</h3>
<p>Smush is built to work with your current WordPress setup, including popular themes, page builders, and plugins.</p>
<ul>
<li>Compatible with Gutenberg, Elementor, WPBakery, and more</li>
<li>Works with WooCommerce stores</li>
<li>No need to change your workflow</li>
<li>Easy to enable and configure</li>
</ul>
<h3>Designed to be simple</h3>
<p>You don’t need to be a performance expert to optimize images with Smush image optimizer.</p>
<ul>
<li>Works out of the box</li>
<li>Simple settings when you need them</li>
<li>No technical knowledge required</li>
<li>Safe to use on any site</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why choose Smush?</h3>
<p>There are plenty of image optimization plugins, but Smush focuses on making it easy to optimize images, compress images, and improve performance without complexity. As a leading WordPress image optimizer, Smush gives you powerful optimization tools without the technical hassle.</p>
<ul>
<li>Trusted by over 1 million WordPress users</li>
<li>Built specifically for WordPress</li>
<li>Regular updates and improvements</li>
<li>Backed by the WPMU DEV team</li>
</ul>
<h3>Get started in minutes</h3>
<p>Install Smush, activate it, and start to compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load right away. This easy-to-use image optimizer helps most sites see improvements immediately without changing how they upload or manage images.</p>
<h3>About Us</h3>
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<h3>Contact and Credits</h3>
<p>Originally written by Alex Dunae at Dialect (<a href="http://dialect.ca/?wp_smush_it" rel="nofollow ugc">dialect.ca</a>, e-mail ‘alex’ at ‘dialect dot ca’), 2008-11.</p>


Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN

Thank you for taking over half of the WordPress dashboard with your giant ad. It motivated me to remove your plugin and install EWWW Image Optimizer instead.

Huge black friday Ad. Stop advertising on my dashboard.


Unfortunately, it does not support WordPress Multisite and Arabic Language.


Does not support WodPresss Multisite and Arabic Language

Compress and optimize images, enable lazy load, serve WebP & AVIF, and speed up your site with a global image CDN.

Andres Garcia Hernandez

<p>Allow image upload on comments to create a guestbook. All images will be resized and originals deleted in order to save space in your server. This plugin will add “Comment Pub” under comments and “Comment Pub Options” under settings.</p>
<p>Comment Pub…</p>
<ul>
<li>Will notify the administrator if the plugin is not compatible with their hosting environment</li>
<li>Supports PNG, GIF, JPG, and JPEG images</li>
<li>Will notify readers if their attached image is not allowed to be uploaded</li>
<li>Will add an additional tab under <em>“Comments”</em> in the admin panel allowing easy monitoring</li>
<li>Will add an additional tab under <em>“Settings”</em></li>
<li><strong>Will allow you to control the Width and Height of the resized version of the original image.</strong></li>
<li>You can remove the requiered e-mail input when post a comment as a guest</li>
</ul>
<h3>Development Information</h3>
<p>Commen Pub was built using…</p>
<ul>
<li>Image Validation by Tom McFarlin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-images/</li>
<li>Respect for WordPress bloggers everywhere 🙂</li>
</ul>


Comment Pub

Create a guestbook or local avatars or unique comments. The images be will resized on upload and originals deleted.

Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN vs Comment Pub