Tachyon #6 in Media & Images
Rewrites WordPress image URLs to use Tachyon
by Joe Hoyle | Human Made | Automattic Inc · github.com/humanmade/tachyon-plugin · website
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Install
No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:
wp plugin install https://github.com/humanmade/tachyon-plugin/archive/refs/heads/master.zipAlso on Packagist as humanmade/tachyon-plugin:
composer require humanmade/tachyon-pluginFrom the readme
Tachyon
Faster than light image processing. Inspired / forked from Photon.
A Human Made project. Maintained by @joehoyle.
Tachyon is an image resizing service built to be used with Amazon S3 as the image backend, AWS Lambda (or any node.js server) to process images using sharp, and sits behind a CDN such as CloudFront or CloudFlare.
This plugin handles modifying WordPress image URLs to use a Tachyon service instance.
Installation
1. Upload and enable this plugin.
2. Add define( 'TACHYONURL', 'https://your.tachyon.url/path/to/uploads' ) to your wp-config.php file.
Usage
Typically the above steps are all you need to do however you can use the following public facing functions and filters.
Functions
tachyonurl( string $imageurl, array $args = [] )
This function returns the Tachyon URL for a given image hosted on Amazon S3.
Filters
The following filters allow you to modify the output and behaviour of the plugin.
tachyondisableinadmin
Defaults to true. You can override this by adding the following code to a plugin or your theme's functions.php:
tachyonoverrideimagedownsize
Defaults to false. Provides a way of
Read the full README on GitHub →
Releases
| Tag | Published | Asset | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.11.10 | Aug 9, 2025 | — | — |
| 0.11.9 | Apr 15, 2024 | — | — |
| 0.11.8 | Mar 25, 2024 | — | — |
| 0.11.7 | Mar 21, 2023 | — | — |
| 0.11.6 | Nov 7, 2022 | — | — |
| 0.11.5 | Oct 22, 2021 | — | — |
| 0.11.4 | May 11, 2021 | — | — |
| 0.11.3 | Mar 26, 2021 | — | — |
| 0.11.2 | Feb 18, 2021 | — | — |
| 0.11.1 | May 6, 2020 | — | — |
| 0.11.0 | Feb 21, 2020 | — | — |
| 0.10.2 | May 20, 2019 | — | — |
| 0.10.1 | May 10, 2019 | — | — |
| 0.10.0 | Apr 29, 2019 | — | — |
| v0.9.2 | Sep 20, 2018 | — | — |