This plugin allows you to compress and optimize your WordPress images through the CheetahO API. Your website will be faster, keeping the images high q …
This plugin allows you to resize/scale images down to your specified size, optimize and compress new and existing WordPress image uploads through CheetahO Image optimizer API. You can choose lossless or lossy optimization modes. At this moment supported filetypes are JPEG, PNG, GIF.
Smaller image sizes on your website mean faster page loads and less bandwidth usage. The faster your site loads, the more Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines will like it.
You can try a quick demohere.
Also you can create a staging copy of your site using WP Staging and test it there.
Set a max width and height and large images will scale down as they are being compressed. CheetahO compresses images using a proprietary algorithm & blazing fast servers to quickly compress images & optimize images. Also cuts all the unnecessary data without slowing down your website/blog which helps to boost SEO & performance.
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Sign up for your FREE CheetahO.com Account and try out the CheetahO image optimization tool. We suggest:
- Free 500 images every month (can buy more)
- Max file size 4 MiB (with a paid plan get more)
- API access
- Pixel-perfect optimization using innovative tools and progressive rendering.
- ONE API key for multiple sites
- Lossless or lossy optimization
- Optimization Statistics and History
- ‘Bulk’ optimize all the existing images in Media Library
- It is safe to test and use the plugin: all the original images are stored in backup folder (optional feature, you can disable it)
- Skip already optimized images
- Optimize thumbnails as well. You can also select individual thumbnails to exclude from optimization.
- Works with both HTTPS and HTTP websites
- Works with eCommerce websites using WooCommerce plugin
- ALso compatible with galleries Modula, Foo Gallery and any other galleries or sliders
- Keep or remove EXIF data from your images, compress images with lossless option. This option is great for photographers
- Able to compress JPG, PNG, GIF images
- Option to deactivate auto-optimizing images on image upload
- Able to compress WOOCOMMERCE products images.
- Images can be automatically resized before being optimized. No need to install additional plugins like Imsanity or Resize Image After Upload
- Compress/resize images even your site is not public.
- Compatible with WP Retina 2x. All retina images are automatically compressed.
- Supports Cloudflare. Purge the image automatically from CloudFlare cache after it is optimized.
- Ignore images by filtering them by patterns.
- Optimize images from custom folder.
Need more? Have a look at our plans: https://cheetaho.com/pricing/
Once you have obtained your credentials, from your WordPress admin, go to the settings page and there you can enter your API credentials, and select your optimization preferences. Once you have done this, click on Save. If everything is in order, it will simply say “settings saved” and give you a reassuring green tick that your credentials are valid. You can now start optimizing images from within Media Library. Any image you upload from now on, through any of the media upload screens will be optimized on-the-fly.
Please send bug reports, problems, feature requests and so on to support (at) cheetaho dot com, or directly to the author of this plugin.
Contact us by email support (at) cheetaho dot com.
To install the CheetahO WordPress Plugin:
/wp-content/plugins/
directoryCheetahO – Getting Started
Cheetaho.com WordPress plugin settings page. You must enter your credentials, and select your optimization mode from there. /assets/screenshot-1.png
Media library with optimization button. /assets/screenshot-2.png
Bulk image optimization page. /assets/screenshot-3.png
Bulk image optimization in media library. /assets/screenshot-4.png
Image optimization directly in image edit page. /assets/screenshot-5.png
From CheetahO panel, right here.
Yes you can.
Register to CheetahO and get 500 free image optimization credits each month. Exceeding the monthly free quota will pause the optimization process till the quota is reset or extended by buying one of our plans.
If you exhaust your free image quota, CheetahO will stop working. You will have to wait for the next month’s quota when your plan will renew.
You can purchase a one-time plan for processing you images. You will pay for it only once, this is not plan subscription. This plan is recommended for websites that have a large gallery that needs to be optimized.
Your original images are saved in a backup folder located on your server at: /wp-content/uploads/CheetahoBackups/
The Bulk option makes CheetahO optimize all your images at once. You can optimize your images in the Media > Bulk CheetahO section by clicking on the compress images button.
Please be patient and do not close the WordPress admin while you are rolling the bulk processing on your media gallery.
Yes. All processed files in our servers are stored only for a few hours.
For now, CheetahO supports JPEG, GIF, and PNG formats.
CheetahO lets to optimize image up to 4 MB with free subscription plan. If you would like to optimize bigger files, you will need to take other plans from here
You can use the plugin on as many sites as you wish. The only limit is the optimization quota of your account.
You can resize/scale images by setting maximum width and height in the CheetahO settings page. CheetahO will resize only original (full size) images to a predefined size while keeping its aspect and proportions intact. The thumbnails will not be touched.
Yes, we have API. More information you can find here: https://cheetaho.com/api-documentation/
You can not use plugin on a localhost. Your site is not public and our servers can not download images to optimize.
If you choose the option to resize your images and set max with and height then the image can be resized to a predefined size while keeping its aspect and proportions intact.
Yes. You can filter images by pattern. You can skip image by name or by path. Useful if you want to skip images from remote storage (for example, /alicdn/)
Yes, all the images are optimized in our Cloud. This takes the load off of your server and allows us to produce the best results.
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Yes! You need to use the CloudFlare plugin or setup credentials in the CheetahO Settings page. If the credentials are correct, the plugin will automatically purge image cache from the CloudFlare when they are optimized.
Yes if theme use native WordPress image upload functions. For example tested WPResidence theme.