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This is the image shown in the post gallery (3x3 blocks) seen on the homepage. Due to the fact that the homepage/landing-page needs to be very fast, we need to optimise this photo as much as we can so it's not a burden for it.
Characteristics:
- resolutionshape: square - crop a part of your image if you don't have a square image
- max-sizeresolution: 448x448 pixels - more than this can't be used, but will increase picture size
- max size: 100KB - let's try to keep picture under this size
How to resize using an online tool (http://picresize.com)
- Pick a photo to resize:
- Crop a square photo - the resolution doesn't matter at this step, try to catch as much real-estate as you want to display:
- Configure resizing:
- Get results + save photo (300% reduction in this example):
- You can get even greater results for regular pictures:
Animated resources
For animated resources (gif/etc) I didn't find yet an easy tool that can resize the images, but I found one that easily optimises + compresses them: https://compressor.io/compress
It's fairly easy to use, so I won't do screenshots on it.
DO NOTs
- DO NOT paste blog post content from Word or copying from other richtext sources(HTML/e-mail/etc). If you need to paste content, strip it's styling with a tool like http://www.striphtml.com. You should only paste plain text and format it with the editor from Wordpress
- DO NOT link images from other websites, they might disappear at some point. DO download them and then upload them to our Wordpress and link them.
Attachments (images/etc)
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