ImagePipe Lite
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Speed up your site with on-demand WebP image resizing and permanent caching — WooCommerce-ready, nothing ever regenerated twice.
ImagePipe Lite generates resized WebP/JPEG/PNG versions of your WordPress Media Library images on demand and caches them permanently. Free tier: JPEG/PNG/WebP output and Fit/Cover resize only (no AVIF, no Crop/Contain/ Stretch, no watermarking, no pretty URLs — see ImagePipe Pro for those).
Features
- On-demand image route with a permanent disk cache — repeat requests are served straight from cache, never regenerated.
[imagepipe]shortcode (same tag as ImagePipe Pro, so content keeps working unchanged after an upgrade), a PHP template helper for theme use, a native Elementor widget, and a native Gutenberg block (“ImagePipe” in the block inserter) — preset or manual sizing (including WordPress’s own registered image sizes: thumbnail/medium/large/custom), link, caption, blur-up placeholder, and responsivesrcset(one width field per breakpoint — active Elementor breakpoints for the widget, a fixed Mobile/Tablet pair for the block).- Automatic replacement: swaps the
srcof content images, the site logo, and featured images to an ImagePipe URL, in a single fixed format/mode (no per-browser negotiated<picture>element — that’s an ImagePipe Pro feature). - WooCommerce product grids/galleries and cart/checkout images (Store API) are covered by the same automatic replacement.
- Admin dashboard with analytics (requests over time, cache-hit rate over time, served-format breakdown) and a 7/30/90-day/all-time period selector.
- Per-format quality settings, a journal of the last 20 generation events, and a one-click “Clear cache” button.
- Available in English plus 14 translated languages (French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian, Greek, Arabic, Indonesian, Russian).
Usage
[imagepipe id="123" width="400" height="300"] in any post/page
content, or from a theme template:
<?php echo esc_url( \ImagePipe\WordPressLite\TemplateHelper::url( get_post_thumbnail_id(), null, 400, 300 ) ); ?>
Building pages with Elementor instead? Drag the “ImagePipe Lite” widget onto the page from the “ImagePipe” category — no shortcode/template code needed.
Using the block editor (Gutenberg)? Insert the “ImagePipe” block — same options, no shortcode/template code needed.