Repository/Wordpress-CompressImage/readme.md

🖼️ Web Image Compression Script

🔧 What it does

• Recursively scans a folder for PNG and WebP images.
• Uses ImageMagick (magick) to recompress:
  • PNG → strip metadata, set quality/compression, write temp file
  • WebP → lossy re-encode with target quality
• Replaces the original only if the compressed file is smaller; otherwise keeps the original.
• Logs basic progress to the console.

✅ Prerequisites

• ImageMagick installed and magick available in PATH.
• Read/Write permissions to the target folder (supports UNC paths).
• The script modifies files in place → make a backup or test on a copy first.
• Run when the site load is low to avoid serving partially written files.