WordPress Plugin

The plugin hooks into the standard WordPress upload flow and compresses every image through the Pictomancer.ai API: the original upload and each generated thumbnail size. It works with anything that creates media library attachments — the Media Library itself, WooCommerce product images, page builders. Smaller images mean faster pages, lower bandwidth, and better Core Web Vitals.

Features

• •Automatic optimization on upload: the original file and every generated thumbnail size are compressed through the API
• •Thumbnail control: limit optimization to the original upload from the settings
• •Safe by design: an optimized file is only kept when it is actually smaller, and the pristine original WordPress keeps for regeneration is never touched
• •Regeneration friendly: regenerated thumbnails are re-optimized, the main file is never compressed twice
• •Dashboard in wp-admin: real accumulated savings and live API health
• •Keeps secrets out of the database: set PICTOMANCER_API_KEY in wp-config.php
• •Composes with WP Offload Media, WP Stateless, and your CDN: bytes are optimized before they reach your bucket

Installation

1. 1Download the plugin ZIP from the GitHub releases page or the WordPress plugin directory
2. 2In wp-admin, go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin and select the ZIP
3. 3Activate the plugin
4. 4Open the Pictomancer menu to set your API key, compression quality, and preferences

Without an API key the plugin uses the Pictomancer.ai free tier. The plugin is currently under review for the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Source code

The plugin is open source (GPL-2.0-or-later). Code, build tooling, and issue tracker live at github.com/pictomancer/plugin-wordpress.