Explain Image Plugins in WordPress

Images make the website more attractive and make the user engage with your content. But sometimes it becomes difficult to manage the images on your website and makes the website a little bit slow and unarranged. let’s see some of the plugins which help in managing the images and make your WordPress website more efficient.

Smush: Here is a Smush plugin that helps in optimization and managing your images. It has a tagline that says Lazy Load Images, Optimize & Compress Images.

Smush is one of the best free image optimization plugins for WordPress it turn-ons the lazy load of the images, resizes, compresses & improves your site speed, and helps in ranking the website.

It compresses the size of the image without losing its quality it also provides the feature of a bulk compress of images at one goes 50 images at one single click. And locate the images which slow down your website it optimizes the file types such as jpeg, png, pdf, and gif.

How to install smush:

Step 1: Go to the Dashboard click on the plugin and then click on Add New.

Step 2: Search Smush in the search box and then click install now.

Step 3: After installing the smush plugin click on Active to active the plugin, so that it starts functioning.

Step 4: After activation of the smush plugin, smush will start appearing on the Dashboard. 

Click on smush and then Dashboard, the smush setting wizard will appear on the screen.

Smush Dashboard

Scroll down you will get the setting section from where you set all the settings related to image optimizations.

Step 5: After setting, click on save changes for applying all the settings.

You can also bulk smush (bulk compress) the images from the smush Dashboard in the bulk smush section.