Does BeaverBuilder or WordPress compress images automatically?

Hey guys,

https://waterfowlstampsandmore.com
I have a client who swears that the images are lower quality than those uploaded. So I checked out by downloading the image files like on this page:
https://waterfowlstampsandmore.com/gallery-6/1973-1999-iowa-trout-stamps/
I download the image (in lightbox foobox) and the image compared to the file uploaded through the media gallery is about 1/3 the size.

Is this BeaverBuilder or WordPress doing this automatically?

Thanks!

-Kaiya

Hi Kaiya,

The media library is part of WordPress and is what Beaver Builder uses when add images to modules and so forth. Therefore, you may want to check out this article - https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/fix-jpeg-compression/

Thanks,
Danny

Thanks Danny,

I am using the Beaver Builder child theme, according to this article if I put the code into the functions.php file in the child theme folder then it should start working right? Considering cache flush etc?

-Kaiya

That article is actually quite misleading :frowning:
If you read the comment by ‘Dave’ (not me BTW), on April 13 2015, I completely agree with him.
The author does not understand what the percentage actually means.
Cheers, Dave

ps - Incidentally I read this just the other day, makes interesting reading…

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/02/22/proposal-increase-the-default-image-compression-in-wordpress/

Hi Kaiya,

Yes, add that snippet to your child theme’s functions.php file and save.

@Dave - Nice catch, I didn’t notice that comment. Also, thanks for sharing the link to that post.

Thanks,
Danny

Thanks Dave and Danny,

One thing I noticed is that the lightbox pulls up a smaller dimension sized version of the image if the image comes from a gallery element such as on this page:
https://waterfowlstampsandmore.com/killer/killer-two/

If you have individually added images such as those on “posts” such as this:
https://waterfowlstampsandmore.com/marion-county-article/
It will pull up the original image uploaded in the lightbox.

Is there anything to be done to make the gallery elements in the builder when its set to “link to image url” to actually go to the actual image instead of example-image-1024x768.jpg?

Thank you, just been hitting my head against a keyboard trying to figure this out.

Hey Kaiya,

I just tried visiting both links above but it seems you’ve got an under construction plugin up. Is there a way around that so we can check the pages?

Ben

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Hi Kaiya,

I did some playing about on my test site and I believe the gallery module is similar to the WordPress gallery where it will only use an image that has been generated based on your largest media file size option.

To resolve your issue, you will want to navigate to your WordPress Admin Dashboard > Settings > Media and increase the largest media size option drastically, as you have some rather large images (one of the them is 7MB).

Once you have set this, install if you haven’t already the Regenerate Thumbnails plugins and run the plugin. When you refresh your gallery page and click on an image. It should be using a much larger version of that image or the full image if you set the largest media size to something very large…

Thanks,
Danny

OMG Danny thank you so much!!!

Task completed!

Hi Kaiya,

No problem, happy to help!

Thanks,
Danny