We’ve all been there, volunteered to put up a website for the parents or taken a look at the local footy club page and wondered to ourselves WHY DID YOU UPLOAD FOUR HUNDRED 2.8MB IMAGES????
Well, wonder no more! No more searching for bulk image resizing desktop utilities and no more fretting about your server space.
Because now Smush, in both free and pro versions, will totally resize them for you!
Here’s what the brand new feature does after Smushing them:
- Takes your uploaded original images
- Allows you to simply set a maximum height and width
- Goes through every single image and if it’s larger, crunches it down
- Gets rid of the old image (you can also keep the old image if you want, but that’s kinda self-defeating if you just wanna save space)
So, in this brave new world, you no longer have to wait for that 9216 x 13312 monitor you’ve been saving up for – every single image you serve will be delightfully viewable, right off the bat, and your hard disk will love you for it.
Let’s do a demo run on a friend’s site (who is *totally* guilty of uploading vast numbers of huge images).
Step 1: Install Smush
Install the WPMU DEV Dashboard and in one click install Smush. Of course, you can also install the WordPress.org version of Smush, but why would you do that when you can use the pro version for free right here!
Step 2: Get Ready to Rumble
I told you she liked uploading images… It’s an artist website after all 🙂
