WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform

Alex Dunae

<p><strong>Compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load automatically 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. Automatically reduce image file sizes, enable image lazy load, and serve 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.</p>
<p>Trusted by over 1 million WordPress sites.</p>
<p>With a 4.8/5 rating.</p>
<p>Everything you need to optimize images and speed up your site.</p>
<p>Works out of the box with no complicated setup.</p>
<h3>Compress images without losing quality</h3>
<p>Reduce image file sizes automatically while keeping your images sharp and clear. Smush lets you compress images using both lossless and lossy compression, so you get 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 improves initial page speed and creates a smoother experience for visitors without extra configuration.</p>
<h3>Serve WebP and AVIF images automatically (PRO)</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 (PRO)</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 (PRO)</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 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.</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.</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. Most sites see improvements immediately without changing how they upload or manage images.</p>
<h3>About Us</h3>
<p>WPMU DEV is a premium supplier of quality WordPress plugins, services and support. Learn more here:<br />
<a href="https://wpmudev.com/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=smush-readme&utm_content=wpmu_dev_link" rel="nofollow ugc">https://wpmudev.com/</a></p>
<p>Don’t forget to stay up to date on everything WordPress from the Internet’s number one resource:<br />
<a href="https://wpmudev.com/blog/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=smush-readme&utm_content=wpmu_dev_blog_link" rel="nofollow ugc">WPMU DEV Blog</a></p>
<p>Hey, one more thing… we hope you <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpmudev/#content-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">enjoy our free offerings</a> as much as we’ve loved making them for you!</p>
<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.

bcupham

<p>If your WordPress website crops certain image sizes, you may find this plugin useful. This plugin uses machine learning to automatically find the main focus of an image, and crop to that, regardless of the crop ratio.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Automagically crop to the “main focus” of an image, whether a face or object. </li>
<li>Preview smart crops before saving them.</li>
<li>Select multiple images to smart crop or select all displayed.</li>
<li>Load as many images as you want with infinite scroll loading (like Media library).</li>
<li>Smart crop a specific attachment’s image sizes with a smart crop button on the attachment page.</li>
<li>Compatible with thumbnail regeneration and image optimization plugins (but see below).</li>
</ul>
<h3>How Does It Work?</h3>
<p>This plugin uses the Google Cloud Vision API to guess the perfect crop for an image. It requires a Google Cloud Vision API key, which is free and can be acquired <a href="https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/setup" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>. As of 2022, the first 1000 requests per month are free. If you need more that is between you and our Google overlords (i.e. you’ll need to give them your credit card).</p>
<h3>Can I automatically smart crop all images at once?</h3>
<p>Yes and no. You can load all of the eligible images in the tool by scrolling down until they’re all on the page, then selecting all and clicking “save and overwrite”. This long-running operation may time out, or you may run out of credits with Google. If so, just refresh the page and only the un-smart cropped images will be displayed. Good luck!</p>
<h3>Is it Compatible With Image Optimization Plugins?</h3>
<p>Yes, but you may need to recompress any smart cropped images. If a smart cropped image is derived from an image that is already compressed, it is likely to be fairly small anyway. TinyPNG keeps track of what images have changed after compression so you can recompress them. Smush and Shortpixel do not.</p>
<h3>Is it Compatible with WebP?</h3>
<p>Not yet. I plan to include automatic smart cropping of webp images in a future version.</p>
<h3>Is it Compatible with Retina?</h3>
<p>Not yet. I plan to include automatic smart cropping of retina images in a future version.</p>
<h3>Can it automatically smart crop on image upload?</h3>
<p>I have deliberately left out this feature to avoid conflict with other image plugins. I may add it later.</p>


Smart Image Crop AI

Use the power of machine learning to crop images automatically.

Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN vs Smart Image Crop AI