WPSSO Tune WP Image Editors

Have you noticed that WordPress creates small images that are a bit “fuzzy” – nothing like the nice sharp original you uploaded?

After resizing an image, the image must be sharpened but WordPress doesn’t do any sharpening, so the resized image remains a bit “fuzzy” – not what you want for a featured image or shared image on social sites! The WPSSO Tune WP Image Editors (WPSSO TIE) add-on provides this missing WordPress image sharpened feature – it automatically applies sharpening to all JPEG images resized by the WordPress ImageMagick library.

Compatible with all image compression / optimization plugins:

Image sharpening is applied during the WordPress resize operation so the resulting images can still be optimized with any compression / optimization plugin.

WPSSO TIE Add-on Features

Extends the features of the WPSSO Core plugin (required plugin).

Applies adjustments to resized images (aka thumbnails) using ImageMagick:

• Enable or disable image adjustments / sharpening for resized images.
• Uses a better compression quality of 92% (WordPress default is 82%).
• Applies a default amount of sharpening values to all resized images.

Optionally select different primary / secondary image editor(s) for WordPress:

• GD Only
• GD and ImageMagick
• ImageMagick Only
• ImageMagick and GD (WordPress default)

Optionally fine-tune the image filter priority and image adjustment options:

• Modify the default ‘image_make_intermediate_size’ filter hook priority.
• Enable / disable contrast leveling.
• Increase / decrease the compression quality percentage.
• Adjust sharpening values individually (sigma, radius, amount, threshold).

WPSSO Core Required

WPSSO Tune WP Image Editors is an add-on for the WPSSO Core plugin, which creates extensive and complete structured data to present your content at its best for social sites and search results – no matter how URLs are shared, reshared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.

Install and Uninstall

• Install the WPSSO Tune WP Image Editors add-on.
• Uninstall the WPSSO Tune WP Image Editors add-on.

1. 

   WPSSO TIE settings page to select the default WordPress image editors and fine-tune the ImageMagick PHP extension.

Version Numbering

Version components: {major}.{minor}.{bugfix}[-{stage}.{level}]

• {major} = Major structural code changes and/or incompatible API changes (ie. breaking changes).
• {minor} = New functionality was added or improved in a backwards-compatible manner.
• {bugfix} = Backwards-compatible bug fixes or small improvements.
• {stage}.{level} = Pre-production release: dev < a (alpha) < b (beta) < rc (release candidate).

Standard Edition Repositories

• GitHub
• WordPress.org

Development Version Updates

WPSSO Core Premium edition customers have access to development, alpha, beta, and release candidate version updates:

Under the SSO > Update Manager settings page, select the “Development and Up” (for example) version filter for the WPSSO Core plugin and/or its add-ons. When new development versions are available, they will automatically appear under your WordPress Dashboard > Updates page. You can reselect the “Stable / Production” version filter at any time to reinstall the latest stable version.

WPSSO Core Standard edition users (ie. the plugin hosted on WordPress.org) have access to the latest development version under the Advanced Options section.

Changelog / Release Notes

Version 4.1.0 (2024/08/25)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Changed the main instantiation action hook from ‘init_objects’ to ‘init_objects_preloader’.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.4.33.
  • WordPress v5.9.
  • WPSSO Core v18.20.0.