EWWW Image Optimizer
Performance Asset Optimization
EWWW Image Optimizer is a WordPress plugin for Asset Optimization. It ranks #1 of 154 in that group by active installs and was last updated 1 week ago.
Slug ewww-image-optimizer
Maintenance check
Is EWWW Image Optimizer still maintained?
Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.
- Updated recently. The last release was 1 week ago.
- Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
- Support is patchy. Only 1 of 5 forum threads in the last two months were resolved.
- Well rated. 4.8 out of 5 from 1,842 ratings.
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More installed than 99.9% of the directory
Ahead of 47,668 of the 47,735 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.
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Details
The record
Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.
- Current version
- 8.9.1
- Requires WordPress
- 6.8
- Tested up to
- 7.1.4
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Added to the directory
- 7 June 2012
- Last updated
- 29 October 2026
- Contributors
- 1
- Author
- Shane Bishop
- Support threads resolved
- 1 of 5
Its own tags
- compress
- convert
- lazy load
- resize
- webp
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