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 compression, so resulting image is visually identical to the original.
Want to see how it works? Try the live demo: https://www.pixpie.co/demo.html
Plugin at Wordpress Directory: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp...
If you find it useful or have an idea how to improve your experience with the plugin, drop us a line support@pixpie.co
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@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
@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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@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?
@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 compressed.
* The actual number of thumbnails depends on the theme and installed plugins. But in average, you will need not more than 5 transformations per each uploaded image.
So, for example, you have 100 pictures in the WordPress. The plugin will use maximum 500 actions to compress all the images.
@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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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 unethical and heavy-handed sales techniques, I might have even signed up for their pro plan and recommended Pixie to others. Instead, I am now warning others not to use it. Well done guys! Real smart
@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) you would receive at least two emails with the warning that your plan is soon to be exceeded.
Actions are taken:
* we disabled emails with the automatic sign up to the premium plan,
* we're working on the hotfix for the plugin. The update will give you an estimate how many actions are needed to compress all images in the Media Library and won't do any compressions above included in the plan until you sign up for the premium plan.
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@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 to stop processing images once the free limit is reached and then offer the premium plan if they want to compress more images. That is how pretty much every other SaaS business operates.
Sneaky tactics such as sending users an invoice for a service that they have not signed up to use does irreparable harm to a business. I recommended your service to 4,000 members of my Facebook group. They are all small business owners who use WordPress.
I have now had to retract that recommendation and warn them about your unethical sales tactics. The damage has already been done. I find it really hard to believe that this was due to a simple error and not plain old greed.
"Satisfied customers tell 3 friends, angry customers tell 3,000"
@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 few early adopters during tests on local market showed us the most probable plugin's life flow:
- after plugin installation no one have clicked "Convert all" images
- blog editors have uploaded new images during first month (20-40 compressions per day)
- during that time they have been comparing the quality of original images and compressed images
- during the first month if they had exceeded 80% of tariff plan - they received the first notification email about usage and potential conversion to the next plan
- after the first month of usage they have known the average amount of compressions that were processed per month and it was possible to understand how many compressions would be processed if they run "Convert all" (based on how many months the blog exist)
- our market research showed us that old posts and images make not so great importance as all new posts and images
- after the first month of usage no one have clicked "Convert all" as well, so we were pretty sure that this feature will be used by a few % of customers
Have we made a mistake with implementation and structure of billing process? We did and we have been fixing it.
Does our billing process confuses you? Yes, it does and we see it now - thanks for your comment.
Do you think we're trying to mislead you? No, we don't and I'm sorry that it looks like this.
@dannyrichman it's not possible because we have cancelled your billing subscription a long time ago.
I'm pretty sure that you have received just statistic summary.
I've already unsubscribed you from that as well.
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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
@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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