Simple Local Image Compress for WordPress

Description

Key benefits:

• 100% local, 100% private. Images never leave your server. No external API calls means no privacy concerns, no rate limits, and nothing to break when a third-party service goes down.
• No re-compression, no quality loss from double-processing. The plugin is smart enough to skip files WordPress has already re-encoded, and it only keeps a recompressed original if it’s actually smaller — so you never pay a quality cost for no size benefit.
• Modern formats, automatically. Convert JPEG and PNG uploads to WebP or AVIF for smaller, faster-loading images your visitors will feel.
• Keeps what matters, strips what doesn’t. Removes bloated EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata (and GPS data, for privacy) while preserving color profiles and orientation — so images look right and don’t leak location data.
• Works on your existing library too. A built-in bulk tool (with WP-CLI support) compresses images you uploaded before installing the plugin — no need to start from scratch.
• See the savings. Before/after file sizes are tracked right in the Media Library and on each attachment, so you can see exactly how much space and bandwidth you’re saving.
• Free, forever. No premium tier gating the core feature — smaller images shouldn’t cost you a subscription.