Every product image, perfectly uniform

Yes. Australcode Uniform Images handles both uniformization (which they don't do) and format conversion to AVIF + WebP (which they do, but with cloud dependencies and quotas). If you have one of those installed, disable it before activating the plugin. Migrating from Smart Image Resize? Run wp acimg migrate-from-sir to import your settings — free, one command.

Yes. A dedicated output buffer rewriter (free tier) intercepts the page-builder's rendered HTML and replaces <img> tags with <picture> elements. Tested with Bricks 2.x, Elementor 3.x, Oxygen 4.x, Beaver Builder and Divi.

Only if you explicitly enable "Apply trim to original". When enabled, the plugin creates a pristine backup before any modification, and wp acimg restore-originals reverts at any time. Default behaviour: originals untouched, derivatives generated separately.

The free version is the full uniformization pipeline. No image cap, no daily quota, no nag screens. Pro adds scale features (CDN delivery, Catalog Watch, multi-site, full WP-CLI), not the core promise. We sell to people who need scale, not to people who hit a deliberate limit.

Yes. The Dashboard flags images that get heavily padded — tall or panoramic shots squared onto the canvas with 40%+ empty space — and a gentle, dismissible notice points it out without forcing a change. That detection is free. The fix is the per-aspect-ratio override (Pro): process 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, vertical and horizontal differently within the same WordPress size, so square photos stay proportional while the rest follow your base mode.

No. Image SEO writes the alt text, title and caption attributes — it does not touch filenames. Renaming a file after upload means rewriting every URL that already points at it, and getting that wrong breaks live product pages. If file renaming is what you're after, this is not the plugin for it.

Image SEO reads your WooCommerce product data — title, category, brand — and builds the alt text from a template. It's instant, free, deterministic, and runs on every upload. AI alt text (Pro) looks at the image itself and describes what it sees, using your own OpenAI or Anthropic key at a fraction of a cent per image. Most stores run Image SEO on everything and AI only on the images where the product name doesn't describe the picture. They write the same field, so neither runs automatically on top of the other, and neither overwrites alt text you wrote yourself.

No. The automatic path only writes where the field is empty. The plugin also records what it generated, so if you edit an alt text by hand afterwards it's locked — no automatic pass will touch it again. The only way anything gets overwritten is if you click the button on that specific image yourself, or explicitly pick the "replace existing" option on a bulk run.

Because they aren't attached to a product. Image SEO builds the text from the product title, category and brand — a logo, a banner or a blog image has no product to read from, so the plugin writes nothing rather than inventing something. The Dashboard counter reflects this: it reports how many images it can actually fill, not how many are missing alt text.

The plugin detects Polish on activation via a probe request and shows an admin warning, because Polish re-encodes the AVIF/WebP it has already generated optimally. Disable Polish for wp-content or accept the double-encoding cost.

Four presets — Maximum, High, Standard, Economy — each setting calibrated per-format quality for AVIF, WebP and JPEG independently. Standard (the default) lands at roughly half the size of the original while staying visually identical for product photography; Economy pushes compression further for bandwidth-sensitive catalogues. Available in the free version.

No. 100% local processing. The optional Cloudflare CDN integration uses your Cloudflare zone, not ours.

PHP 8.2+, WordPress 6.5+. Imagick 3.4.4+ is preferred for AVIF support; GD is a supported fallback for sites where Imagick isn't installed.

It is Bring Your Own Key: you paste your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key, and the plugin generates alt text per image via OpenAI Vision (gpt-4o-mini) or Anthropic Vision (claude-haiku-4-5), enriched with the WooCommerce product title, category and brand. We are not a Merchant of Record over AI costs — you pay your provider directly at their rates, which are fractions of a cent per image. Pro feature.

Yes, on the Agency plan. The Multi-Site Manager is a central dashboard inside one wp-admin that monitors up to 25 client sites (unlimited on the top Agency pricing) — aggregated derivatives, bytes and issues, with automatic hourly sync. It talks wp-admin to wp-admin over native REST using a Bring Your Own Application Password, so no images or data pass through any external service.

Yes. Compatibility with custom_order_tables and cart_checkout_blocks is declared from day one. No manual configuration required.

Originals are untouched. Derivatives can be left in place (no harm) or cleaned via wp acimg purge-cache --all before uninstall.

14-day unconditional money-back guarantee, processed by Freemius — our Merchant of Record. Licenses renew annually (or buy lifetime once); if a license lapses the plugin keeps working, you just stop receiving updates.