WP vs Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN

WP Email Template 2 things – beautifully Applies a responsive, customizable, optimized HTML email template to every email sent from your WordPress site including plugin generated emails. Gets your beautiful / professional emails delivered. Easily Configure advanced email sending providers with any of these supported providers SMTP via your server Gmail SMTP Mandrill (API or SMTP) SparkPost (HTTP API or SMTP API) EMAIL TEMPLATE The plugin applies a HTML template to email sent from your WordPress site. The Template is optimized to show your HTML emails perfectly in the10 most popular email browsers. Apple iOS Devices MS Outlook Hotmail Apple Mail Yahoo! Mail Google Gmail Android Devices Windows Live Desktop Mozilla Thunderbird TEMPLATE EDIT OPTIONS Option to Turn the Template ON | OFF. OFF to just use the plugin use to set up wp email sender without using the template (see below). Dynamic Template Width – admin can edit the 600px default width of the Template. Template Background colour selector Background Pattern ON | OFF setting. Upload and position Email Template Header image Header Image container background, border, and padding settings. Footer – add email template custom footer content via the WordPress editor. Follow us on – add links to social media site where users can follow you. Many more dynamic style options available in the Pro version. EMAIL SENDING OPTIONS The biggest issue users have are: Email Spammers make successful email delivery a very complicated and specialized function. WordPress by default uses your web hosts local mail server to send all WordPress and plugin generated emails. Emails sent from a web host local mail server have poor delivery rates because they have very little or no reputation. Configuring any type of email delivery provider will improve email delivery rates. Every different Email Provider requires another plugin to configure. For example here are just a few of the available choices. Send Email via SMTP – WP SMTP Mail, WP SMPT, Easy WP SMTP Send Email via Gmail SMTP – SendPress Lite and any SMTP plugin if you know what you are doing. Send Email via Mandrill – wpMandrill Send Email via SparkPost – SparkPost Send via WordPress default ‘local mail server’ if using GoDaddy Hosting – Auto Config WordPress default Email Sending – SendPress Lite At a3rev we want users to be able to Create a Beautiful / Professional HTML Email template. Auto apply that template to all emails sent from WordPress and installed plugins. Easily configure a sending provider to get those emails delivered. Do it all with one plugin, quickly and easily. That is why we have added the Email Sending Provider Configuration Options so you can do all of that with just one plugin – WP Email Template. EMAIL FROM PLUGINS WP Email Template will not work with any plugin that: Applies it’s own HTML Email Template (WP Email Template is still applied but the 2 together will look bad). Send it’s emails via the php() function. WP Email Template is applied to all mail that goes through wp_mail() Some of the better known plugins of the 1,000’s of plugins that WP Email Template works beautifully with. Gravity Forms – see the screen shots – looks sensational with the default Gravity style. Contact Form 7 – see the screenshots Formidable Forms – both Lite and Pro Versions of that plugin WooCommerce – Version 2.3.9 and backward compatible to version 2.1.0. By default the plugin ignores WooCommerce email output – but you can choose to apply your WordPress Email Template to all Woocomerce emails to give you consistent branding across your entire site. WP e-Commerce – applies the template to every store generated email to customers and admins WP Mail SMPT – WP Email Template does not interfere with the way any WordPress or any plugin handles email output – it just applies the template to any output content. BackupBuddy – I love it when even my admin emails are branded – see the screenshots Wordfence – Branded security emails – nice. PREMIUM VERSION For those who want more advanced features there is a Premium version. View addition features at WP EMAIL TEMPLATE PREMIUM CONTRIBUTE When you download WP Email Template, you join our the a3rev Software community. Regardless of if you are a WordPress beginner or experienced developer if you are interested in contributing to the future development of this plugin head over to the WP Email Template public GitHub Repository to find out how you can contribute. Want to add a new language to WP Email Template! You can contribute via translate.wordpress.org Usage Install and activate the plugin Go to WP Email menu on your wp-admin dashboard. Go to the Template sub menu and add your template styling Go to the Send WP Mail sub menu and configure your preferred email sending provider. Enjoy.

Compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load automatically with the powerful Smush image optimizer to keep your WordPress site fast, without losing quality. Smush makes it easy to optimize images, compress images, and deliver images faster across your entire WordPress site. This all-in-one image optimizer automatically reduces image file sizes, enables image lazy load, and serves modern formats like WebP and AVIF, all without breaking image quality or adding extra work. Whether you’re running a blog, store, or portfolio, Smush helps you optimize images at scale and keep your site fast with a trusted WordPress image optimizer. Trusted by 1+ Million Sites | 4.8/5 Star Rating Get everything you need to optimize images and speed up your site. Smush works out of the box with no complicated setup – just install and let it handle the rest. Compress images without losing quality Reduce image file size automatically while keeping your images sharp and clear. Smush is an easy-to-use image optimizer which let’s you compress images using both lossless and lossy compression, giving you the best balance of quality and performance without extra work. You can also compress images outside the media library using Directory Smush, making it easy to optimize images stored in theme folders, plugins, or other directories on your server. Lazy load images for faster pages Enable image lazy load across your site so images load only when needed. This image optimizer improves initial page speed and creates a smoother experience for visitors without extra configuration. Serve WebP and AVIF images automatically (PRO) Convert images to WebP and AVIF and serve them automatically to supported browsers. Smush helps you optimize images using next-gen formats to reduce file size and improve load times across your WordPress site. Deliver images faster with an Image CDN (PRO) Serve images through a global image CDN to reduce latency and improve load times for visitors around the world. 119 global CDN servers Up to 500 GB of bandwidth Faster image delivery based on visitor location Improved performance for image-heavy and high-traffic sites Automatically resize and fix image dimensions (PRO) Eliminate common PageSpeed warnings and improve layout stability with automatic image sizing. Smush dynamically resizes images to perfectly fit their containers, regardless of original size, helping fix the “Properly size images” warning in Google PageSpeed Insights. It also automatically adds missing width and height attributes to your images, improving rendering speed and reducing layout shifts. This helps you meet the “Ensure images have explicit width and height” recommendation without any manual work. Optimize your entire site, automatically Smush works across your whole site as a powerful image optimizer to optimize images as you upload them and maintain performance over time without manual work. Optimize images automatically on upload Compress images in bulk or individually Works with your existing media library No need to re-upload images Enable image lazy load across your site Convert images to WebP and AVIF Deliver images with an integrated image CDN Automatically resize and serve correctly sized images Optimize images outside the media library with Directory Smush Built for performance Smush improves page speed and overall performance by reducing image weight and improving how images are delivered. Reduce page load times Improve user experience Better performance for image-heavy pages Supports image lazy load and preload images (PRO) for faster perceived performance Works with your existing setup Smush is built to work with your current WordPress setup, including popular themes, page builders, and plugins. Compatible with Gutenberg, Elementor, WPBakery, and more Works with WooCommerce stores No need to change your workflow Easy to enable and configure Designed to be simple You don’t need to be a performance expert to optimize images with Smush image optimizer. Works out of the box Simple settings when you need them No technical knowledge required Safe to use on any site Why choose Smush? There are plenty of image optimization plugins, but Smush focuses on making it easy to optimize images, compress images, and improve performance without complexity. As a leading WordPress image optimizer, Smush gives you powerful optimization tools without the technical hassle. Trusted by over 1 million WordPress users Built specifically for WordPress Regular updates and improvements Backed by the WPMU DEV team Get started in minutes Install Smush, activate it, and start to compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load right away. This easy-to-use image optimizer helps most sites see improvements immediately without changing how they upload or manage images. About Us WPMU DEV is a premium supplier of quality WordPress plugins, services and support. Learn more here: https://wpmudev.com/ Don’t forget to stay up to date on everything WordPress from the Internet’s number one resource: WPMU DEV Blog Hey, one more thing… we hope you enjoy our free offerings as much as we’ve loved making them for you! Contact and Credits Originally written by Alex Dunae at Dialect (dialect.ca, e-mail ‘alex’ at ‘dialect dot ca’), 2008-11.