WebP has been developed by Google to be able to create smaller and better looking images that can help make the web faster. A WepB file consists of VP8 image data, and a container based on RIFF. It is a new image format that uses lossy compression for photographic images.
This WebP converter supports also the conversion of animated GIF to animated WebP.
Also the controll over the filesize in some cases can be important instead of quality.
On some onlineconverters you are able to specify a % or a direct target filesize which are optional to the quality settings. Like:
In my website i'm now converting my upload images into webp, because is smaller than the other formats, the users will load my pages more faster(Also mobile user). But it's take some time to converter a medium image.
Whats puzzling is if you inspect the HTML you can see that webP images are in the source. Some images are being requested as webp & working, some are being requested & the request is cancelled, and some are just being requested as the original image file type.
Forcing images into the webp option does not appear to be configurable now, and how you might alter the code to do it would depend on whether you work with the old/current editor the new Lexical editor.
@Jaycee_Lewis I don't believe the Elements tab of the inspect tool will ever show webp since, as the docs mention, the images will still show as their original format on the front-end. The Network tab, as you mentioned, though is definitely the place to look. I just looked on our own website and our images show as jpg/png in the code and download as jpg/png, but in the Network tab are shown as being served as webp.
Another important note is, if you upload pretty large images you'll still likely get the "Serve images in next-gen formats" message from Pagespeed Insights because it does not serve that message based on the file format provided. It takes the image, even if it's already webp, converts and compresses it, and compares the size to the original. So even with images being served as webp, you'll still need to ensure you're uploading images at a decent file size.
This plugin, [wordpress.org/plugins/webp-converter-for-media/](WebP Converter for Media) for Webp wordpress is very popular and needs some minor modifications to wpcommon for it to work. The current webp rules (see below) do not follow how the extension works--it converts and places webp photos in another directory. It also uses the original extension and then adds .webp (so image.jpg becomes image.jpg.webp)
I'm trying to think of a more elegant way to do this so I can just add a include file instead of modifying wpcommon itself. Every method I tried wouldn't work as the wpcommon webp rules would take precedence. Hope this helps someone using the plugin and perhaps someone much more knowledgable can come up with a better solution
zelik888 I'm trying to think of a more elegant way to do this so I can just add a include file instead of modifying wpcommon itself. Every method I tried wouldn't work as the wpcommon webp rules would take precedence. Hope this helps someone using the plugin and perhaps someone much more knowledgable can come up with a better solution
Configuration below should work in example.com/config/nginx/new-webp.conf without changing default WordOps configuration. Name it as you wish but keep .conf extension. Based on -convert-jpegpng-to-webp-on-demand-on-the-fly-for-wordops. Attention: I never tried it, but I'm quite confident that it will work if your conf does work. ?. Please let me know if this works for you or what you had to change.
Thank you for this. I was able to build off it and came up with something where I wouldn't have to have to worry about modifying the config files (until it breaks anyways). I also removed the Cache-Control "private" always so cloudflare would cache the webp images and uses up the server's bandwidth. But this causes the plugin to yell at me to enable rewrites which I'll just ignore.
I would like to ask if it is possible to enable convert Convert Image... menu for webp files?
I know that the plugin is working fine for opening a webp file in image viewer and then save it as png.
I have many files that I would like to convert and is boring saving file by file.
And in the Edit 'Images" File Type Group the .webp extension is already listed but i only get GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP in the Convert Images dialog box when i right click on some .PNG files to try and convert them to .webp.
Would anyone smarter then me be able to confirm if this is the correct command to get lossless conversion done to .webp format please? I'm trying to achieve a .png equivalent with alpha channel and lossless for screenshots etc.
Thanks Leo but i think you misread. I'm wanting to go from png to webp and wanted clarification building on lxp's helpful code. I'm slightly unsure because the sample code on ImageMagick's website in the webp listing shows both the -quality and lossless settings existing int he same line even though i think enableing lossless would negate any quality setting... but again.. i'm not sure.
The documentation for the Telegraphics plugin mentions releases through CS6 but not beyond. I tried it anyway but could neither import nor export webp. I've emailed them for clarification but am not hopeful.
The reason that I failed to open an image earlier is that I had saved the image from the web using Chrome. When I saved it, the Mac helpfully converted it into a web link (.webloc) instead of a webp image.
I pasted the URL into Safari. Since Safari doesn't support webp, it delivered a PNG, which was what I needed. So from now on I'll just use Safari when I need to download an image that Chrome delivers in webp format.
Hey Jeff, can you actually use that image? I have the same specs as you, can I can install and successfully export a webp the way have. Finder doesn't recognise it as an image file and I can't get it to work as part of a locally developed website in Chrome, but it shows in Firefox.
WebP has become a popular choice on the web, offering impressive performance in terms of both quality and size. Utilizing Tinify's image converter, you can effortlessly transform your JPG and PNG images into the WebP format.
After setting the filters go to Settings -> Converter for Media in the admin panel and click the Save Changes button. .htaccess files with appropriate rules should be created in the directories /uploads and /uploads-webpc.
Looking at the closest utility offered by Google, I don't see an immediately obvious way to do that. I don't like having to use online converters for individual files, one by one, I'd rather do it offline using my computer in batch.
Note that you may need to use just mogrify -format gif *.webp without magick depending on the options you selected during the ImageMagick installation, your platform or if you are using an older version of ImageMagick.
Using this method (mogrify), random files gave me significant dropouts, in my results. Per the suggestions in this thread ( -can-i-avoid-dropouts-when-using-imagemagick-mogrify-to-convert-webp-file ), I got much better results, using convert.
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Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow when the ReadHuffmanCodes() function is used. An attacker can craft a special WebP lossless file that triggers the ReadHuffmanCodes() function to allocate the HuffmanCode buffer with a size that comes from an array of precomputed sizes: kTableSize. The color_cache_bits value defines which size to use. The kTableSize array only takes into account sizes for 8-bit first-level table lookups but not second-level table lookups. libwebp allows codes that are up to 15-bit (MAX_ALLOWED_CODE_LENGTH). When BuildHuffmanTable() attempts to fill the second-level tables it may write data out-of-bounds. The OOB write to the undersized array happens in ReplicateValue.
I successfully implement the option to upload Webp image format. Following the below link, now I can upload Webp on my product page.
However, Prestashop is automatically converting my webp image format to JPG. Even in the backend when I check the folder using FTP, I do not find my webp image uploaded in it.
In short, my images are getting converted into JPG format. And, even Webp is not available on my server
Kindly note, I am using Prestashop 1.7.8.9 and i think this is because of Prestashop not supporting multiple image format. So, can anyone help in allowing multiple image formats in Prestashop 1.7
Please Help. I want to show Webp image not JPG compressed image.