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Media Uploads: Better support WebP uploads
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Description
Expected behavior
The core WordPress Performance team have introduced a WebP Uploads plugin that generates WebP images when JPEGs are uploaded. A user in 7802217-zen wrote in to let us know they expected this behaviour to carry over to the app.
Actual behavior
If a user has the WebP Uploads plugin enabled and uploads to the app, a WebP is not generated. Furthermore, when image optimization is enabled, WebPs uploaded to the app are auto-converted to JPEGs.
It would be good to, at the least, support WebPs when image optimisation is enabled, especially considering the core WordPress team's support for that image format for performance.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the app's media upload and image-optimization paths, using the linked WebP Uploads plugin behavior as the reference. Done means JPEG uploads can produce WebP files when the plugin is enabled, and WebP uploads are preserved rather than converted to JPEG when image optimization is enabled.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android
- Domain
- mobile, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100