One of the most common mistakes I see when browsing friends’ blogs, is that they upload their images and photos unoptimized–i.e. full-sized. This matters for a number of reasons, top among which are the following:
- Large images mean you may run out of storage space. Your blog host may then ask you to upgrade to a more expensive hosting plan.
- Large images take longer to display.
- Large images can eat up a reader’s monthly bandwidth when they’re visiting on a mobile phone.
Optimizing Your Images
Chris Graham, aka everyone’s favorite simian, recently posted a series of posts on the subject on his excellent blog, Chris the story-reading ape. These include detailed instructions on how to resize your photos and images on both the old WP-admin environment and the new one. Depending on your blog’s theme, you may want to resize them to as little as…
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Many thanks for sharing, Charles 🙂
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You’re welcome. By the way, the people who run the Ask Me Anything site asked if I knew an author that would be interested. Was wondering if you wanted me to give them your name. They seem to contact through twitter.
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Sure thing! Thanks for thinking of me 🙂
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