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Pixel-Lite

Pixel-Lite for WordPress: compress, resize and convert photos to WebP on upload, and strip GPS and camera data. By North Texas Web Design.

by North Texas Web Design · github.com/northtexaswebdesign/pixel-lite · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/northtexaswebdesign/pixel-lite/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/northtexaswebdesign/pixel-lite ↗

Pixel-Lite

Pixel-Lite for WordPress

Compress, resize and convert photos to WebP the moment you upload them, and strip GPS and camera data. On your own server: no account, no API key, no quota.

Pixel-Lite is the WordPress version of the free Pixel-Lite web app, made by North Texas Web Design (Richard Taveira).

What happens when you upload a photo

  1. Turned the right way up. The EXIF orientation is applied to the pixels.
  2. Resized. Longest side scaled down to 1440 px (or 1920, 2048, 2560 px, or not at all). Never enlarged, never cropped.
  3. Compressed. Saved again as JPEG or WebP at quality 82.
  4. Cleaned. GPS, camera make/model/serials, dates, XMP, IPTC, comments and embedded previews are removed. Wide-gamut colour profiles are kept.
  5. Never bigger. If the result isn't smaller, the original image data is kept and only the metadata is removed, losslessly.

It hooks into wp_handle_upload, so it works for the Media Library, the block editor and REST uploads, before WordPress makes its smaller sizes.

A 2000 × 1331, 433 KB photo Size Saved
JPEG (default) 1440 × 958, 260 KB 40%
WebP 1440 × 958, 190 KB 56%

Screenshots

Settings Attachment details
Settings Attachment details
How it works Pixel-Pro (coming soon)
How it works Pixel-Pro

Install

  • From WordPress.org: Plugins → Add New, search for Pixel-Lite.
  • From GitHub: download the zip from Releases, then Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.

Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 7.4+, with Imagick or GD.

Files

Path What it does
pixel-lite.php Plugin header, constants, loads inc/
inc/engine.php The compressor: Imagick or GD, orientation, resize, encode, and the lossless JPEG metadata stripper. No WordPress calls, so it can be tested on its own
inc/upload.php The wp_handle_upload hook, per-image records (_ntxwd_pixel_lite post meta), Media column, attachment details, uploader note
inc/settings.php Option ntxwd_pixel_lite, admin menu, Settings tab
inc/pages.php How it works and Pixel-Pro tabs
assets/ Admin CSS and the icon
.wordpress-org/ Banner, icons and screenshots for the WordPress.org listing (not part of the plugin zip)

Developers: return true from the ntxwd_pixel_lite_skip filter to leave one upload alone.

License

GPLv2 or later. See LICENSE.

Made by North Texas Web Design · Richard Taveira · pixel@ntxwd.net