Show HN: We made the first WordPress Resizer that resizes images pre-upload
Hi HN, we (Rowan and Joerie) created Resize Control! It's our first project together so we are really excited to show you.
Find it here: https://tuningwp.com/resize-control/#get
The Problem Working at web design agencies, we constantly faced the issue of clients uploading massive images with wrong resolutions or aspect ratios. Especially for webshops, beautiful sites were ruined by bad images. Existing plugins didn’t let us customize settings based on post type or user role.
Our Solution We built a "before upload" plugin that truly processes images pre-upload. It offers more control with features like:
Role and post-type based settings Custom size and scaling methods Background options for contained formats (great for webshops!)
Check out our free version or the pro tier. Let us know your thoughts.
Cool idea, tho' I'm not one to just download something unknown. Sorry.
Certainly your product can be helpful. Congrats.
While we're on the topic of WP and images, two thoughts to add:
1) More themes need to use object-fit and/or aspect-ratio. If the image location's properties are known - and typically they are - then they should be specified (in order to mitigate some of the issues you've mentioned)
2) Consistently, WP's unspoken problem when it comes to images is its inefficient defaults for the img tag's sizes and srcset. Get sizes wrong - and typically WP does - and the browser has no choice but to make bad decisions.
/rant :)
Again, congrats. It's going to be interesting to see the reaction to this tool.