{"id":579,"date":"2021-06-22T14:18:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/?p=579"},"modified":"2022-07-21T06:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T06:39:28","slug":"install-imagify-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/install-imagify-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install the Imagify WordPress Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Imagify WordPress plugin can be installed like most other free plugins using the <b>Plugins &gt; Add New<\/b> page within your WordPress Admin section.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-584\" src=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-menu-location.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-menu-location.png 532w, https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-menu-location-300x78.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/>\n<p>Once there, you can search for the Imagify plugin.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-586\" src=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-search-for-imagify.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-search-for-imagify.png 486w, https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-search-for-imagify-300x60.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/>\n<p>You should most likely see the Imagify plugin as the first result and you can click the <b>Install Now<\/b> button to install Imagify to your WordPress site.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-587\" src=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-imagify-install-now.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-imagify-install-now.png 493w, https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-imagify-install-now-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/>\n<p>You will also then be prompted to <b>Activate<\/b> Imagify, which you can do as well.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-591\" src=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-imagify-activate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-imagify-activate.png 490w, https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/plugins-add-new-page-imagify-activate-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/>\n<p>Once Imagify is activated and installed, you&#8217;ll notice that your site now has added image optimization functionality and pages associated with Imagify.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice that you now have a new menu item under <b>Media &gt; Bulk Optimization<\/b>, which is a page you can use to <a href=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/optimize-images-wordpress-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">optimize all the images on your site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-877\" src=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imagivy-v2-bulk-optimization-1024x820.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imagivy-v2-bulk-optimization-1024x820.png 1024w, https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imagivy-v2-bulk-optimization-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imagivy-v2-bulk-optimization-768x615.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also see a menu item under <b>Media &gt; Other Media<\/b> and this is where you will see optimized images that are located outside of your standard WordPress Media Library location. These are images located in <b>Custom Folders<\/b>, which you can specify in the Imagify plugin settings page.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-878\" src=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2022-07-21-at-08.38.35-1024x431.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2022-07-21-at-08.38.35-1024x431.png 1024w, https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2022-07-21-at-08.38.35-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2022-07-21-at-08.38.35-768x323.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also notice some differences in your Media Library page, particularly when you change to the list view. For each of your images, you&#8217;ll now have new options available, including a button to optimize images individually, a new Imagify column with optimization stats for each image, and options to re-optimize to different compression level.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-869\" src=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2022-07-21-at-08.13.47-1024x371.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2022-07-21-at-08.13.47-1024x371.png 1024w, https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2022-07-21-at-08.13.47-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2022-07-21-at-08.13.47-768x278.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n<p>You should also see a new page at <b>Settings &gt; Imagify<\/b> where you can customize your <a href=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/recommended-imagify-settings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imagify image optimization settings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-599\" src=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imagify-settings-page-menu-location.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imagify-settings-page-menu-location.png 326w, https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imagify-settings-page-menu-location-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Imagify WordPress plugin can be installed like most other free plugins using the Plugins &gt; Add New page within your WordPress Admin section. Once there, you can search for the Imagify plugin. You should most likely see the Imagify plugin as the first result and you can click the Install Now button to install [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress-plugin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}