The only true answer to this is to try an image in all three and compare the results. Photoshop and Shortpixel are off topic here, but also change with time so any answer would be out of date. You will need to look at non-WordPress resources to figure out the best optimisation strategy. As for … Read more
Check .htaccess on /home/ and /homr/public_html/ (For example of site root), Probably there are some codes there to add gzip to the web server a web server can enable the gzip as default check php.ini file for zlib.output_compression value, It should be off
You can store symlinks as symlinks (as opposed to a copy of the file/directory they point to) using the –symlinks parameter of the standard zip. Assuming foo is a directory containing symlinks: zip –symlinks -r foo.zip foo/ Rar equivalent: rar a -ol foo.rar foo/ tar stores them as is by default. tar czpvf foo.tgz foo/ … Read more
A nice explanation is at WPMUdev: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-change-jpeg-compression-in-wordpress/ According to their tutorial, you’d need to add the following to your functions.php add_filter( ‘jpeg_quality’, create_function( ”, ‘return 100;’ ) ); They also suggest regenerating your thumbnails once the change is made so previously uploaded images will be affected by the quality change.
DotNetZip will allow you to do this from PowerShell. It is not a one-liner, but the library will allow you to write the PowerShell script you need. You can also use the COM interface, see Compress Files with Windows PowerShell then package a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget. Googling “zip powershell” or “unzip powershell” might also … Read more
It’s not built into Windows, but it’s in the Resource Kit Tools as COMPRESS, C:\>compress /? Syntax: COMPRESS [-R] [-D] [-S] [ -Z | -ZX ] Source Destination COMPRESS -R [-D] [-S] [ -Z | -ZX ] Source [Destination] Description: Compresses one or more files. Parameter List: -R Rename compressed files. -D Update compressed files … Read more
Blurry images when using add_image_size with crop
You can set the width of each image sizes inside of WP > Settings > Media Alternatively you can select the image size to be “Full image” when inserting each image into the post. This will choose the image you uploaded and not a cropped version.
I think that the best option, as you already pointed out, is to host your images elsewhere. We use an Amazon AWS S3 account and with the WP Offload Lite plugin the process is quite strightforward
Short and anticlimactic answer: the big fancy corporate firewall protecting the server was set to HTTP “application” mode. We switched it over to simply allowing all traffic on port “80” and the issue was solved. Rarst♦ was right!