I have installed a compressing plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/tiny-compress-images/) in WordPress to minimize the file size of all the images that I upload. Works really well, the only problem is the following:
If I create a new page, insert a picture and resize it manually in the editor WordPress seems to create a new version of the picture with exactly the resolution that I have chosen. For instance I have a newly created file called airline-768×447.png in my uploads folder that was apparently created by WordPress when I resized the original image in the editor to this size.
The problem is that this newly created file doesn’t get compressed by the plugin and therefore its file size is way bigger than it should be.
Why isn’t wordpress just using the original file and just resizes it using css or the width and height attributes? Is there any option to turn off this behavior where WordPress seems to create images with individual size?
I have searched for quite a while but couldn’t find any solutions. Thanks 🙂