WordPress image crunching

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When I upload an image to WordPress, it says "crunching." Does this mean minimising the image size with lossless compression?

Does that mean its a waste of time compressing images in Adobe Fireworks before uploading?

Thanks,

Jon
#website design #crunching #image #wordpress
  • You most likely have the WP Smush.it plugin installed. If so, it is uploading it to the Yahoo! servers, compressing it, and using that version. So, yes, you are wasting time
  • Has absolutely nothing to do with smushit or whatever.

    It's WP terminology for processing the image. Depending on theme and plugins, WP will usually create at least 3 different-sized images every time you upload an image.

    So yes, you should continue to optimize your images before uploading them.
  • Hi Jon,

    No, you are not wasting time compressing images in the Adobe FW.

    As crunching means resizing. When you upload images in WordPress, the image editor resizes the original image into three separate images: thumbnail, medium, and large.

    You can set those sizes in Wordpress Dashboard..
    go to MEDIA > Media Settings
    and there you can set sizes for Thumbnail, Medium and Large.

    Also please note , premium themes with thumbnail functionality also come
    with their own defined thumbnail sizes for different areas of the site, to change
    those dimensions you may have to go into the theme's functions.php code ...


    With Best Regards,
    Mohsin Rasool
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    When I upload an image to WordPress, it says "crunching." Does this mean minimising the image size with lossless compression? Does that mean its a waste of time compressing images in Adobe Fireworks before uploading?