Cloudinary – Deliver Images and Videos at Scale vs Optimize More! – Images

Boost the performance of your WordPress site by optimizing your images and videos with the Cloudinary WordPress Plugin. WordPress developers, content creators, and administrators can efficiently create, manage and deliver images and videos. The plugin scales from individual blogs to enterprise sites that deliver hundreds of thousands of images and videos and that need to be accessed across a variety of devices. What can Cloudinary do for you? Automatically optimize and transform all your new and existing images and videos through best-in-class algorithms that improve site performance and SEO rankings. Check out some examples! Rapidly edit assets, via AI, that deepen engagement through capabilities such as smart cropping, thumbnail generation, automated transcoding, and more. Deliver dynamically created responsive images across various devices and different resolutions. Utilize lazy loading and customizable placeholders to load images that are viewed by your users. Support both headless and UI-based WordPress deployments, maintaining flexibility in website development. Maintain compatibility with popular page builders. Provide end-to-end support for the WooCommerce plugin. Stream videos using the Cloudinary Video Player, featuring advanced capabilities to enhance user engagement. Present a responsive and interactive Product Gallery for creating captivating visual experiences. About Cloudinary’s award-winning plugin makes automating your image and video workflows easy, offering a variety of features. Supporting nearly two million developers and over 10,000 customers, Cloudinary enables companies to manage, transform, optimize and deliver image and video assets. The Cloudinary Plugin supports all these capabilities, providing users with a true plug-and-play solution. Getting started takes only minutes using the intuitive onboarding wizard. Learn more about the plugin with the Cloudinary Academy – Introduction to Cloudinary for WordPress Administrators After deployment, users can access a dashboard that provides insights into optimization metrics and data usage. The Cloudinary Plugin is based on an architecture that supports any type of site including business, enterprise and personal. Optimize your site performance and user experience by achieving faster page load times and implementing advanced auto-responsive delivery. This not only improves your Google page rankings but also enhances Core Web Vitals, and Lighthouse scores. By leveraging features such as video and image optimization, advanced responsive design, customizable lazy loading, and built-in CDN support, you can publish content faster while consistently delivering engaging user experiences. The Plugin supports both headless and UI-based development models, and allows you to customize development and extend functionality with the Cloudinary Plugin actions and filters. Moreover, you can create engaging visual experiences with automated quality and encoding settings, video and image resizing and cropping via AI, comprehensive transformations and effects, and seamless delivery to any device in any resolution or pixel density. Getting Started To use the Cloudinary Plugin and all the functionality that comes with it, you will need to have a Cloudinary Account. If you don’t have an account yet, sign up now for a free Cloudinary Programmable Media account. You’ll start with generous usage limits and when your requirements grow, you can easily upgrade to a plan that best fits your needs. Upon account creation you can plug in your account credentials and customize your configurations as desired. That’s it. About Cloudinary Read more about Cloudinary: Our website Blog Feature guides DAM solution Detailed documentation Image transformations documentation Video transformations documentation Cloudinary FAQ Cloudinary Academy – Introduction to Cloudinary for WordPress Administrators

A lightweight yet powerful image, iframe, and video optimization plugin. Lazy load, preload, and more. No jquery dependency. Features Lazy Load – Lazy loading images, iframes, and videos, using the high performant lazysizes.js. No jquery dependency. Preload Featured Images – Automatically preloading featured image from common page/post (homepage, pages except homepage, single post, and woocommerce single product pages). Use CDN for Images – HTML rewrite if you want to serve images from your favorite CDN. Add Missing Image Dimensions – Add missing width and height attributes from your images. New (since 1.1.1) Add no-lazy and skip-lazy class as default exclude class for lazyloading images. Enable loading eager to also target no-lazy and skip-lazy class. Automatically exclude featured image (add no-lazy class) from lazyloading if Preload Featured Images feature is enabled (useful to avoid Largest Contentful Paint image was lazily loaded warning in Google Pagespeed Insights ). Add webp extension to CDN HTML rewrite regex. New (since 1.0.7) We changed the lazy load library from lozad.js to lazysizes.js. Add field to modify lazysize default configuration. Read the docs. Add fields to specify width and height fallback value if the Add Missing Image Dimensions feature failed to get the actual image dimension. New (since 1.0.3) Lazy load CSS Background Images – Load faster by lazy loading background images from the CSS background-image property. Tested and works well on CSS background image from GenerateBlocks, Elementor, and Oxygen Builder. Noscript Fallback – Extra option to use fallback for lazy images and iframes. Add Loading Eager – Extra option to Automatically add loading=eager to the lazy load excluded list. This plugin only adds 1 extra row in your database. And it will self delete upon uninstalation. About Lazysizes Lazysizes is highly performant lazy load library, written by Alexander Farkas in pure JS with no dependencies. Taken from lazysize’s github description: High performance and SEO friendly lazy loader for images (responsive and normal), iframes and more, that detects any visibility changes triggered through user interaction, CSS or JavaScript without configuration. Optimize More! Need to optimize more? Try our WordPress Speed Optimization’s Service. Other USEFUL PLUGINS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR SITE’S SPEED: Optimize More! – Selectively Optimize your CSS/JS Delivery: Load CSS Asynchronously, Delay CSS and JavaScripts until User Interaction, Preload Critical CSS and JavaScripts, and Remove Unused CSS and JavaScripts Files. Lazyload, Preload, and more! – A simplified version of this plugin. The plugin size is only around 14kb zipped. Without UI for settings, but you can customize the settings using filters. The default configuration is the best for optimizing images and other media files to speed up your site (just install and activate it and you’re good to go): lazyload your below the fold images/iframes/videos, preload your featured images, and add loading=”eager” to your featured image and all images that have no-lazy or skip-lazy class. Other USEFUL PLUGIN: Shop Extra – A lightweight plugin to optimize your WooCommerce & Business site: Floating WhatsApp Chat Widget (can be use without WooCommerce), WhatsApp Order Button for WooCommrece, Hide/Disable WooCommerce Elements, WooCommerce Strings Translations, and many more. Animate on Scroll – Animate any Elements on scroll using the popular AOS JS library simply by adding class names. This plugin helps you integrate easily with AOS JS library to add any AOS animations to WordPress. Simply add the desired AOS animation to your element class name with “aos-” prefix and the plugin will add the corresponding aos attribute to the element tag.