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I recently switched to aruba.it hosting, with redis and cache via your plugin, and I have to say that it is excellent compared to litespeed cache that I used before. One thing I don’t understand: in the media library, when I press the convert button for webp a duplicate of the image is created in webp format. To use it on the post do I have to manually change the image or is it an operation that the plugin performs? Or how are the converted webp files used? Thanks a lot for your support.
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Hello Remigio,
Thank you for reaching out and I am happy to help!
I am very glad you are enjoying using the W3 Total Cache and I am happy to answer your question
I’ve checked your website and it appears that you are not using the W3 Total Cache to convert the images to webp.
W3 Total Cache does not create a duplicate image.
All images converted with the webp converte tool are sent to a third-party server maintained by the W3 Total Cache team which reduces resource consumption and allows for a large number of conversions in environments where resources can be limited such as shared hosting. Images sent to the W3TC server for conversion are only held temporarily and no permanent information is kept on the server regarding the images.
WebP optimizations with the Image Service tool do not replace the original image file and all conversions can be reverted without any loss of data. W3 Total Cache uses the rewrite capabilities of your server to serve images as webpAfter checking your website, I noticed that the converted images have the .webp extension which is not something the W3 Total Cache does as explained above. After inspecting the images closely, I noticed that they are all coming from a folder /wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/
And the extension is for example: image.png.webpThis being said it’s most likely that you are using the following plugin instead of the W3 Total Cache webp converter:
Can you please confirm this and possibly share a screenshot of what you are clicking to convert the images in the media library, and is the webp converter enabled at all in the W3 Total Cache Performance>General settings?
Thanks!
Now I have restored the use of the webp extension with w3
But I have some questions to ask you:
how many images can I convert in a month?
so if the images of a post are in jpg are they served as webp or do I have to convert them to webp and change the image in the post?
I use cloudflare, and often in the inspector cf-status-cache is miss: why?I’m exactly in the same situation – I converted a couple of images but on the site where I tested it, still the “old” jpg images are served.
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