The challenge I am engaged on, I could not discover a straightforward approach to have WordPress create the thumbnails sizes I wanted with out tons of waste, nor to concurrently generate WebP variations, so I disabled the thumbnails, I add a full-size jpg or png, after which I manually generate my WebP and different sizes and duplicate them to the uploads. A customized PHP operate handles constructing responsive <image>.
Nonetheless, I might prefer to keep away from the media library loading up the full-size picture because the thumbnail on a regular basis, as it is a waste of bandwidth. I might prefer to level to a small WebP or JPG model that’s not within the library however within the uploads folder and have it load that picture as a substitute. The file identify is sort of the identical, simply must be appended with _width (width being a quantity) which I might do with strtr or one thing.
Is there a approach to entry the Media Library File column with a operate and a hook/filter so I can change the src path to the thumbnail picture? I might additionally have to keep away from PDF, SVG and TXT file uploads and simply goal JPG or PNG information. If it is not doable, I will must generate a thumbnail with a customized dimension.
