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1. #IMAGEMAGICK WORDPRESS HOW TO#
2. #IMAGEMAGICK WORDPRESS INSTALL#
3. #IMAGEMAGICK WORDPRESS UPDATE#
4. #IMAGEMAGICK WORDPRESS PATCH#
5. #IMAGEMAGICK WORDPRESS VERIFICATION#

Update July 2018: if you’re using the Timber plugin, you can use the wp_editor_set_quality hook as well as the WordPress standard jpeg_quality hook. My own brief testing this morning shows that a value of 80% is fine too: by setting this value to apply to JPGs generated on this website, I could reduce the total size of images added to the site in December 2015 from 135mb to 101mb, using the following code in my functions.php and then re-generating the thumbnails using this plugin. Detailed research and testing by Joe McGill in preparation for this proposal to WordPress Core indicates that a value of around 82% produces significant size savings, whilst remaining within acceptable optical similarity limits. (Aside from video, of course.)Ī complicated algorithm in server-side tools like GD or ImageMagick means that even where images are optimized as much as possible in (for example) Lightroom, compression when uploading to CMS like WordPress can sometimes create images which are actually larger than the originals.Ī tip for WordPress developers is to use the jpeg_quality hook to set a lower quality setting than WordPress’ default setting of 90%. One of the best places to make savings is amongst images, as they are the “heaviest” content on a regular website. Imagick classes => Imagick, ImagickDraw, ImagickPixel, ImagickPixelIterator, ImagickKernelĪlternatively, by adding the phpinfo() function to a php script, and then accessing the script from a web browser, we are able to see the module is installed and enabled.With ever more internet activity taking place over mobile connections, it makes sense to optimize website content as much as possible so that content loads as quickly as possible. Which will output the following information, where the modules status is shown as enabled.

#IMAGEMAGICK WORDPRESS VERIFICATION#

imagickįor a much more detailed verification of whether the PHP module was installed correctly, use the phpinfo() method.įrom the command line, run the following command php -r 'phpinfo() ' | grep imagick If the installation was successful, the output of the command will simply show one line, and it will only contain the name of the module imagick. Run the following command to verify the installation. To verify the installation was successful and that the module is enabled properly, we can use php -m from the command line, and grep the results to limit the output to only the line that is important. sudo systemctl restart apache2 Verify Installation In order for any new PHP extension to be used with your web application Apache must be restarted. Installing the module alone isn’t enough. It can read and write over 200 image file formats, and can support a wide range of image manipulation operations, such as resizing, cropping, and color correction. php-imagick/bionic,now 3.4.3~rc2-2ubuntu4 amd64 Restart Apache Web Server ImageMagick® is a free and open-source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image and vector image files. The output will look similar to the following, and at the time of this writing, there was only a single version available. The -a flag tells apt to list all version of a package available from the repositories.

#IMAGEMAGICK WORDPRESS PATCH#

This would be useful in the event that the latest patch introduces regressions, which is fairly uncommon. If you require a previous version of php-imagick, you can list the version available from the Ubuntu repositories using the apt list command.

#IMAGEMAGICK WORDPRESS INSTALL#

Like ImageMagick, to do an imagick php install we can simply run the apt install command. Version 3.4.3 of the Imagick PHP extension is available from the Ubuntu’s repositories. sudo apt install imagemagick:6.9.7.4 Installing Imagick PHP Extension For example, to install version 6.9.7.4 you would run the following command. sudo apt list imagemagick -aĪnd to install a specific version of a package we specify it with the apt install command. To list all available version from the Ubuntu repositories, use the apt list command with the -a flag. The following command will install the latest version available in the Ubuntu source repositories.

ImageMagick version 6.9.2 is available from the default Ubuntu repositories, and it can simply be installed by running the apt install command.

#IMAGEMAGICK WORDPRESS HOW TO#

This tutorial will show you how to do so on Ubuntu 18.04. To use the ImageMagick library with PHP applications, such as WordPress, we must first install the library and then it’s corresponding PHP class. Web applications often use the library for its high performance with operations against uploaded images, such as resizing and format conversions, for example. ImageMagick is a popular multi-platform image manipulation tool.