{"id":16870,"date":"2022-08-09T12:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=16870"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:47:01","slug":"bookmarked-webp-by-default-merged-into-core-for-wordpress-6-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/bookmarked-webp-by-default-merged-into-core-for-wordpress-6-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarked: WebP by Default Merged Into Core for WordPress 6.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen converting medium-resolution photographs (approx 1600px \u2013 2500px on the long edge), WebP files are often larger than the JPEG equivalent,\u201d WordPress developer Mark Howells-Mead <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/55443#comment:14\">commented<\/a> on the main ticket for WebP work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This plugin will disable WebP generation by default. No settings, just a filter for those who can\u2019t do it on their own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XL3mjE2mTv\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/disable-webp-by-default\/\">Disable WebP By Default<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Disable WebP By Default&#8221; &#8212; Plugin Directory\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/disable-webp-by-default\/embed\/#?secret=8y1yvLQev3#?secret=XL3mjE2mTv\" data-secret=\"XL3mjE2mTv\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just from the point of not having many duplicates, jpg and webp versions taking up server space the plugin seems woth a though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen converting medium-resolution photographs (approx 1600px \u2013 2500px on the long edge), WebP files are often larger than the JPEG equivalent,\u201d WordPress developer Mark Howells-Mead commented on the main ticket for WebP work. And from the comments: This plugin will disable WebP generation by default. No settings, just a filter for those who can\u2019t do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/pinboard.in\/url:20d08f2301ce5d555ff5572a4fb3bb15ae79d252"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[610,409],"tags":[62,63,1518,11],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-16870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-enviable-stuff","8":"tag-google","9":"tag-images","10":"tag-webp","11":"tag-wordpress","12":"post_format-post-format-status","13":"kind-bookmark","15":"h-entry","16":"hentry","17":"post-kind"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-4o6","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16871,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16870\/revisions\/16871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16870"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=16870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}