What is the recommended way to save Image Files in WP?
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Hi,
Is there a recommended setting (or even plugin) to use when saving image files on my Wordpress blog?
Which folders etc.Thanks
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Agreed with everything said here. The default Media uploader for Wordpress is the best to use unless there's something special about what you're trying to do with the images.
As Bradley said, optimizing images is important. http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/ is a popular plugin that will let you do this as you upload images.
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You upload images through WordPress' built in Media upload tool. Don't FTP images directly into WordPress as they won't be recorded in the database and you won't get the built-in feature of having several different sizes of the images made (thumb, small, medium, large).
I would also recommend optimizing your images before uploading them. Use a tool like tinypng.org if you are primarily uploading pngs.
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Thanks for the answer, I have updated the question to make it clear...
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Hi, if by media files you mean audio media files then save them as mp3 format. Depending on what they are you can normally save speech at around 64kpbs whereas with music do for a minimum 128kbps.
Peter
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