Finally I got rid of JPEG image compression in WordPress

antagonist

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Oct 15, 2012

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• Jul 6, 2013

• #1

Boy, was I annoyed.

I pretty much accepted the fact that WordPress reduces the uploaded image quality by default - which sucks because I like my images clean and crisp.

Finally I found a neat little snippet to stop WordPress from reducing the image quality:

Code:

<?php add_filter('jpeg_quality', function($arg){return 100;}); ?>

Put this into your functions.php and you're good.

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Credit goes to http://wp-snippets.com/keep-wordpress-from-compressing-jpgs/

PS: It seems that you need PHP 5.3.1+ installed on your webserver to make this work.

 

Moosey

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Dec 5, 2011

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• Jul 6, 2013

• #2

I like using png images, although the file size is much larger. If you have a solid cache plugin configured correctly it never becomes an issue from my experience.

 

kindarthur

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Nov 27, 2011

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• Jul 6, 2013

• #3

Perfectly said!, I agree on you mate! @op Here, You can get the plugin,
Check this out:http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-resized-image-quality/

You can change the compression level of uploaded JPEG images and thumbnails.

Moosey said:

I like using png images, although the file size is much larger. If you have a solid cache plugin configured correctly it never becomes an issue from my experience.

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SpookSEO

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Dec 15, 2012

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• Jul 6, 2013

• #4

I am also experiencing some troubles with regards to the quality of images in wordpress. Thank you for sharing this useful tip.

 

antagonist

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kindarthur said:

Perfectly said!, I agree on you mate! @op Here, You can get the plugin,
Check this out:http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-resized-image-quality/

You can change the compression level of uploaded JPEG images and thumbnails.

Click to expand...

Thanks mate. I have to admit I never thought about doing it with a plugin. And as it's really simple to implement the above snippet I will save the bandwidth for now.

I like simple solutions and I really just needed to get rid of the annoying image quality reducing "feature"

 

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adamprattler

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Jun 28, 2013

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• Jul 6, 2013

• #6

Thanks mate, you helped me a lot. I was also looking for this jpg image solution in WP. It really works.

 

coolboy113u

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Oct 27, 2009

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• Jul 6, 2013

• #7

that's cool. Now good luck configuring the CDN. Use cloudflare or similar services to make sure that it loads up quickly