{"id":2923,"date":"2026-08-28T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:43:41","slug":"optimize-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/optimize-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimize Images"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Follow these steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Duplicate<\/strong>&nbsp;the image you are using, save the original if you need it and shrink the copy. You can shrink an image by 1) reducing its size (in pixels) &nbsp;and also its resolution (in px\/in).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rename the copy<\/strong>&nbsp;to a name you can find easily in the Media Library (that includes your name, like \u201cjoline_project1_1\u201d), then open it in &nbsp;Preview on mac (or similar software on PC).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select&nbsp;<strong>Adjust Size<\/strong>&nbsp;from the Tool Menu:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-bottom is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-bottom is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/optimize1-1200x950-1-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/optimize1-1200x950-1-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/optimize1-1200x950-1-1024x811.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/optimize1-1200x950-1-768x608.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/optimize1-1200x950-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-bottom is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/optimize2-300x276.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/optimize2-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/optimize2-768x706.png 768w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/optimize2.png 848w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then with\u00a0<strong>both blue boxes clicked<\/strong>, and the dropdown next to width &amp; height set to \u201cpixels\u201d,\u00a0<strong>set the largest edge of your image to\u00a01024 px<\/strong>\u00a0(the other will change automatically and in proportion), or if the image needs to be even smaller 800 px. \u00a0Make sure the\u00a0<strong>resolution is set to\u00a072 pixels\/in<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Save image<\/strong>\u2013it is now ready to upload to your post if it is below or near 500 KB. The example above went from 2.4 MB to 257 KB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to label &#038; optimize images BEFORE uploading to Wordpress <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-108"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}