CodingBunny Image Optimizer Lite

CodingBunny Image Optimizer is a powerful and easy-to-use image optimization plugin for WordPress. It helps you improve your site's performance by optimizing images, converting them to the WebP format, and resizing them automatically upon upload. Features

• Automatic image optimization upon upload
• Conversion to WebP and AVIF format
• Automatic image resizing
• Option to delete original images after conversion
• Disable WordPress default big image threshold
• Preload critical image (LCP) for better Core Web Vitals scores
• Lazy loading: images load only when visible to the user

PRO Features

• Option to set WebP and AVIF quality conversion
• Disable WordPress unused image thumbnails: WordPress generates multiple thumbnails for each uploaded image. Choose which of these thumbnails you want to include when the images are optimized.
• Bulk image optimisation: this option allows you to simultaneously optimize all or several selected images in the library.
• Unused images cleaner: this option identifies unused images within the site.
• Watermark: add a watermark to your images to protect them (now also supports text watermark).
• Orphan Thumbnails cleaner: find and delete orphaned thumbnail files.
• Cleaning Product Images: delete images associated with the WooCommerce product when it is deleted.
• Alternative Text generator: automatically generates the ALT attribute for images.
• Remove Metadata: automatically remove unnecessary metadata from images (requires Imagick).
• Image Protector (add-on): advanced system for protecting against unauthorized copying and downloading of images.

The plugin is simple to install:

• Download coding-bunny-image-optimizer.zip
• Unzip
• Upload coding-bunny-image-optimizer directory to your /wp-content/plugins directory
• Go to the plugin menu page and activate the plugin

2.1.0: 2025-08-28

• Added Alt Text Template (PRO version).
• Added Force Overwrite Existing Alt Text (PRO version).

2.0.0: 2025-08-25

• New: Text Watermark added (PRO version).
• New: Orphan Thumbnails cleaner: Find and delete orphaned thumbnail files (PRO version).
• New: Cleaning Product Images: Delete images associated with the WooCommerce product when it is deleted (PRO version).
• New: Preload Critical Image: Preload the main image for better LCP and Core Web Vitals scores.
• New: Lazy Loading: Your images load only when they are visible to the user.
• New: Alternative Text generator: Automatically generates the ALT attribute for images that lack it (PRO version).
• New: Remove Metadata: Automatically remove unnecessary metadata from images (Requires Imagick) (PRO version).
• Improvement: Improved detection of Unused Images.
• Improvement: Improve code.

1.6.4: 2025-06-26

• Fix: Fixed a problem in image resizing in case the image was only 1px larger than the set value.

1.6.3: 2025-06-13

• Improvement: Added option to enable/disable logs.
• Improvement: Image statistics are now updated only manually to avoid slowdowns in sites with many images.

1.6.2: 2025-05-29

• Fix: Fixed problem with Watermark Javascript (PRO version).

1.6.1: 2025-05-05

• Improvement: Improved log messages.
• Fix: Fixed problem with deletion of original images.

1.6.0: 2025-04-30

• New: Added “Logs” page with export functionality to txt file.
• New: Added “System Information” page that replaces the “Image Stats” section on the “Settings” page.
• Improvement: Improved the operation of bulk conversion to WEBP and AVIF (PRO version).
• Improvement: Original files are now deleted only if the conversion to WEBP or AVIF is successful.
• Improvement: Improved detection of new versions that could cause WordPress backend slowdowns (PRO version).
• Improvement: Unified the Image Batch Size value for bulk optimizations of images (PRO version).

1.5.3: 2025-04-17

• Fix: Fixed problem with saving settings.

1.5.2: 2025-04-16

• Improvement: Added support for automatic updates (PRO version).

1.5.1: 2025-04-11

• Fix: Fixed error with thumbnail creation (PRO version).

1.5.0: 2025-04-04

• New: Added options to disable right-click on images.
• New: Added functionality to apply custom watermarks to images (PRO).
• New: Added Bulk image batch selection. You can now choose how many images the server can process at one time based on the performance of your server (PRO).
• Improvement: Improved code for performance.
• Improvement: Changed license management system (PRO).

1.4.5: 2025-03-17

• Fix: Fixed error that caused the Unused Images Finder function not to work with some configurations (PRO version).

1.4.4: 2025-02-20

• New: Added support for converting HEIC image format (Requires WordPress 6.7 and ImageMagick 7 or above).

1.4.3: 2025-02-09

• Improvement: Improve code.

1.4.2: 2025-01-17

• Fix: The “Image Stats” widget has been removed because it was slowing down the loading of the WordPress dashboard on some servers.
• Fix: Minor bug fix.

1.4.1: 2025-01-15

• Fix: Fixed PHP errors generated in rare cases from images already in the archive.

1.4.0: 2025-01-06

• New: Added new feature “Unused Images Finder” beta version.
• New: Added new feature “Big Image Threshold”.
• New: Added quality conversion presets (PRO version).
• New: Added new option to enable/disable “Unused Images Finder” toolbar (PRO version).
• New: Added new option to enable/disable “Bulk Image Optimizer” toolbar (PRO version).
• New: Added “Images Stats” widget in the WordPress dashboard.
• New: Added “System Info” panel.
• Improvement: Added French, German and Spanish language support (PRO version).
• Improvement: New feature “Unused Images Finder” is now in final version (PRO version).
• Improvement: Improve code security and performance.
• Improvement: Modified user interface.
• Improvement: Compatibility with PHP 8.4
• Fix: Removed the progress bar from the “Bulk Image Optimizer” toolbar because it was slowing down the optimization process on some servers (PRO version).

1.3.0: 2024-12-11

• New: Added new feature “Unused Images Finder” beta version (PRO version).

1.2.3: 2024-11-30

• Improvement: Added Thai language support (PRO version).
• Improvement: General code improvement.
• Fix: Fixed Bulk Resize translation problem (PRO version).

1.2.2: 2024-11-13

• Fix: Fixed the error that allowed images to be enlarged with Imagick.

1.2.1: 2024-11-11

• New: Added conversion status bar (PRO version).
• Improvement: General code safety improvement.

1.2.0: 2024-11-08

• New: Added conversion quality setting (PRO version).
• New: Added button to convert all library images without selecting them (PRO version).
• Improvement: Intermediate sizes of images in library are now removed after conversion (PRO version).
• Fix: During bulk optimization, images were being resized even with the option turned off (PRO version).

1.1.0: 2024-01-30

• New: Added bulk optimization of images in library (PRO version).
• Improvement: Changed interface style.

1.0.0: 2024-10-18

• New: Initial Release