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Explore image management and optimization in WordPress, covering strategies for uploading, editing, and displaying images effectively. Learn about plugins and techniques for image compression, lazy loading, and responsive design. This tag is ideal for WordPress users looking to enhance the visual appeal and performance of their websites by optimizing their use of images.

Where to Find Stock Icons for Your Blog Post Featured Images

A popular trend nowadays is to have a nice banner at the top of every post published on a blog. This helps set the tone and create an emotional response with the reader. In previous years it was more common to use photography for these banners or featured images, and it is indeed still a very good idea to use photography. However in more design or tech oriented blogs icons are all the rage at the moment. Here are the best stock icon sites I use on a regular basis.

Jean Galea July 13, 2023

Optimize Images and Improve Website Performance: ImageRecycle Review

It is no secret that website speed matters a lot when it comes to improving the performance of your website. Google has openly stated on numerous occasions that faster page load times equal better user experience and as such, websites that load fast have a better chance of getting a higher search engine rank.

Sufyan bin Uzayr July 17, 2023

Free & Paid (Legal) Images for Your Blog

The issue of copyright and images has been a long-standing one ever since you could just search for any image you want on a search engine and copy it into your blog post.

Mark Zahra July 22, 2023

How to Resize Images on the Fly in WordPress

While working on moving WP Mayor to Genesis, I needed image resizing on the fly functionality, as the old theme used Timthumb and I wanted to get rid of that for a number of reasons.

Jean Galea July 13, 2023

How to Add Featured Images to Categories and Tags

Did you think featured images were limited to posts? As always, WordPress is infinitely extendible, so some plugin developers have given us plugins that let us set a featured image/thumbnail for categories, tags and all types of custom taxonomies.

Jean Galea July 14, 2023

How to Remove Image Sizes in WordPress

In an earlier post about image sizes in WordPress, we had shown you a way to choose which image sizes are available for choosing when you’re inserting an image in a post or page.

Today, we are posting a more complete solution where you can actually tell WordPress which image sizes it should or should not generated, and then choose which ones are available in the media uploader/image insertion screen.

Jean Galea July 13, 2023

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