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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
Hey, guys, we're excited to release a plug-in for WordPress. Make your website faster by compressing your new and existing WordPress image uploads. Features: * 500 compressions per month free. * JPEG and PNG images supported * Plugin optimizes images uploaded to the Media Library on-the-fly. All generated thumbnails are optimized too. * Intelligent lossy … See more
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Krishna De@krishnade · Digital strategist and speaker
@dmitry_osipa Interested to check this out - what happens if you have a long established site and therefore have a lot of images on the free account does it only optimise images going forward or can you configure it for past images using the WordPress plugin? Thanks
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@krishnade by default, the plugin will compress only new uploads, but it can optimize all images in the media library on demand.
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Krishna De@krishnade · Digital strategist and speaker
@dmitry_osipa Thanks - and will it therefore just tell you how many images you have if you have no idea as it is a long established site but want all images optimising?
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@krishnade right now the plugin doesn't tell this. We will add the estimate in future updates. Right now you can estimate how many transformations you will need. Here's how: * One image in the media library may require ~4-5 transformations because Wordpress generates ~4-5 thumbnails for each uploaded image. * Each of the thumbnails may need to be compresse… See more
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Krishna De@krishnade · Digital strategist and speaker
@dmitry_osipa Thanks for the information
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@krishnade happy to help
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Raju@rajupp
@dmitry_osipa @pixpie Wonder why you went with number of compressions instead of bandwidth. I pay $8.99 for 2GB bandwidth (approx 20,000 compressions) on Imagify
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@rajupp we're considering this pricing model in the future too. Currently we designed pricing model be cheaper than Cloudinary and TinyPNG
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Raju@rajupp
@dmitry_osipa would be great if you can do that. Currently, I have around 10 thumbnails per image, so this model won't work out
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Paul Shuteyev@paul_shuteyev · CMO, PromoRepublic
Great tool! Invited you on Linkedin :)
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@paul_shuteyev thanks for the feedback :)
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Andrew Marin@andrew_marin
Hey guys, thanks for such an amazing tool! Tried it in dev environment and it truly decreases the traffic significantly! Great for people who want to cut their bills a bit
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@andrew_marin thanks for your feedback! It saves the bandwidth and increases web-site position in search engine too :)
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Anton Skyba@antonskyba · Co-founder at Moggie
Wow, looks really nice. Well done!
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@antonskyba thank you!
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Anton Diatlov@anton_diatlov
What happens to the optimized images if I uninstall the plugin?
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@anton_diatlov it can restore originals, or leave optimized images untouched. You can configure this behavior in the plugin settings.
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Marina Yalanska@myalanska · CMO and Content Writer for Tubik Studio
Oh thanks, for crazy bloggers like me it's going to be the helping hand. Hurry up to try!
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@myalanska hope it will be useful for your needs :)
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Lisa Dziuba@lisadziuba · Swift Learner & FlawlessApp.io Founder
What are your next product plans?
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@lisadziuba we want to create similar plugins for other popular CMS, such as Magenta, etc. And add support for video compression at some point
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Vegard Wikeby@vegardwikeby · CEO @ WiMake Solutions
@dmitry_osipa @lisadziuba Craft CMS would be great professional add-on (ready plugin).
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@vegardwikeby @lisadziuba we'd be happy to add support for other CMS, especially if there's no competitive alternative yet.
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Ayush Chandra@ayush_chandra · Research Intern & Tech Evangelist
Great tool! Hope there is some tool for videos? Thanks 😊
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@ayush_chandra thanks! The product for video compression is in development :)
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Vegard Wikeby@vegardwikeby · CEO @ WiMake Solutions
Seems a lot cheaper than tinypng.com, now anyone who can develop a Craft CMS plugin for PixPie?
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@vegardwikeby we're planning to add support of other CMS in future. But even now we have a simple to use REST API, so implementing a plugin for the CMS should be relatively straightforward. Here's the doc on our REST API: https://pixpie.atlassian.net/wik...
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Justin Zheng@legionof7
@Dmitry_osipa do you know if the compression method this uses is better then the Google PageSpeed one?
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@legionof7 AFAIK Google PageSpeed reduces JPEG images quality to fixed value of 85%, Pixpie reduces visual quality depending on the image content. So resulting image visual quality may be between 30% and 90%. And Pixpie does lossy PNG compression, which results smaller files too. For the site customer images after Pixpie and PageSpeed will look identical.
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Dmitry Rogov@rogovdm
So awesome!
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@rogovdm thanks!
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Gordon Drayson@gdrayson · Self Employed Magician
Are the optimised images stored on the wordpress site?
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Vladimir Usychenko@accord · CTO
@gdrayson yes, they are. And you can revert them back to your originals if you haven't unchecked "Keep Original Files" on Settings page. We are looking to store originals and optimized images on our cloud in the future and also implement "backup to cloud" feature.
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Danny Richman@dannyrichman
WARNING! Like most WordPress users, I have little idea how many images are on my site. Pixpie has a limit of 500 images that it will compress for free. If you go over that limit you will be automatically invoiced for their premium plan. This happens without you ever agreeing to sign up to the plan or enter any card details. Had they not used such unethic… See more
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Dmitry Osipa@dmitry_osipa · CEO, Pixpie
@dannyrichman sorry for the inconvenience. First of all, You and other customers will not be charged. The customer should explicitly give us a permission and credit card details, only after that we can charge. Secondly, some customers reported this issue. We didn't expect that the clients would exceed the free plan so quickly. Typically (in other plans) y… See more
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Danny Richman@dannyrichman
@dmitry_osipa I'm sorry Dmitry but I find it hard to believe that this wasn't just a ploy to scare people into paying for a premium plan. "The customer should explicitly give us a permission and credit card details, only after that we can charge." Yes, of course they should! That should have been obvious to you. The correct way to go about this would be … See more
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Vladimir Usychenko@accord · CTO
@dannyrichman I'm really sorry about this misunderstanding but at the same time I can't see the "damage" that you're talking about. I would be totally agree with you if we got your card and processed payments without asking - that would be awful and dishonest at all. As @dmitry_osipa mentioned - we haven't expected such behaviour. Our market research + a… See more
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