By ImageKitImageKit – URL based image manipulation and optimization Plugin
Faster & lighter experience for your users. Deliver optimized images on all platforms instantly using ImageKit.
Images make up a critical part of all websites and mobile applications these days. They are the centerpieces of a great product and user experience. Managing your images and delivering the perfect image, tailored and optimized for your user’s device is, therefore, more critical than it has ever been. However, this takes up a lot of development and maintenance time that could have otherwise been used in building your core product. This is where ImageKit can excel.
This plugin will automatically update all the image URLs in your post so that images are fetched from ImageKit for optimization and faster delivery instead of your web server.
Gets the best out of all your images in less than 10 minutes
- Your existing images get all the benefits instantly.
- Size, quality & format optimizations work automatically.
- URL-based image transformations like resize, crop, rotate etc.
- Responsive images for a tailored experience across devices.
- Up to 50% load time reduction with quality and format settings.
- CDN-powered delivery of images across the globe.
- Simple dashboard to monitor usage and manage your images.
- Easy to integrate SDKs for uploads and other features.
Requirements
You just need to Create an account on ImageKit to use this plugin and get optimization benefits on your WordPress website instantly.
About ImageKit
Support
- Support Email: [email protected]
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/plugin-namedirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- Use the Settings->ImageKit setting screen to configure the plugin. Check out WordPress integration guide
FAQ
Yes, you need to create an account on https://imagekit.io first to use this plugin.
This plugin changes the HTML content of the post to replace base URL with ImageKit endpoint so that images are loaded via ImageKit.
This plugin automatically optimize the images and serve them in next-gen format including WebP. However, this plugin does not automatically resize the images as per the layout. WordPress 4.4 has added native support for responsive image. Learn more to make your themes image responsive.
No, this plugin automatically takes care of that.
Yes, you can email [email protected] to configure custom CNAME for your account and then specify that in the plugin setting page.
Yes, you can specify any number of custom directory locations on plugin settings page
ImageKit supports all popular image formats that cover 99.99% of the use case. On the settings page, you can further configure if you want to allow or disallow a particular file type to be loaded via ImageKit.
This is because image dimensions are not as per the layout. We could have done it using Javascript in the frontend like other plugins, but we do not recommend it. The browser triggers the image load as soon as it sees an image URL in HTML and intentionally delaying this while Javascript calculates the ideal width will ultimately slow down the image load for your users. WordPress 4.4 has added native support for a responsive image. Learn more to make your themes image responsive.
Changelog
4.1.3
Tested on WordPress 6.4.2
4.1.2
Bug Fixes
4.1.1
Bug Fixes and tested on WordPress 5.7.2
4.1.0
Bug Fixes. Tested for PHP 8 and WordPress 5.6
4.0.1
Bug Fixes and Lazy Load Update
4.0.0
Bug Fixes and Added Lazy Load support
3.0.5
Modified the Registration message on settings page
3.0.4
Updated readme
3.0.2
Bug fix
3.0.1
A bug fix for checking value of imagekit_id
3.0.0
Added and updated documentation links. Simplified the integration steps.
2.0.7
Stopped transforming image urls to use ImageKit’s resizing transformations.
2.0.6
Added CNAME support