ImagePipe Lite

ImagePipe Lite generates resized WebP/JPEG/PNG versions of your WordPress
Media Library images on demand and caches them permanently. Free tier:
JPEG/PNG/WebP output and Fit/Cover resize only (no AVIF, no Crop/Contain/
Stretch, no watermarking, no pretty URLs. See ImagePipe Pro for those).

Why it speeds up your site

WordPress often serves images at their original upload size, oversized
for the space they’re actually displayed in. ImagePipe Lite instead
serves a WebP variant sized for where the image is used, a lighter
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) element on most pages, one of the three
Core Web Vitals metrics behind Google’s PageSpeed Insights score and
search ranking. Because every variant is cached permanently after its
first request, this costs nothing on repeat visits: no resize work, no
lookup beyond a disk read.

Features

• On-demand image route with a permanent disk cache: repeat requests are
  served straight from cache, never regenerated.
• [imagepipe] shortcode (same tag as ImagePipe Pro, so content keeps
  working unchanged after an upgrade), a PHP template helper for theme use, a
  native Elementor widget, and a native Gutenberg block (“ImagePipe” in
  the block inserter), preset or manual sizing (including WordPress’s
  own registered image sizes: thumbnail/medium/large/custom), link,
  caption, blur-up placeholder, and responsive srcset (one width field
  per breakpoint, active Elementor breakpoints for the widget, a fixed
  Mobile/Tablet pair for the block).
• Automatic replacement: swaps the src of content images, the site logo,
  and featured images to an ImagePipe URL, in a single fixed format/mode
  (no per-browser negotiated <picture> element: that’s an ImagePipe Pro
  feature).
• WooCommerce product grids/galleries and cart/checkout images (Store API)
  are covered by the same automatic replacement.
• Admin dashboard with analytics (requests over time, cache-hit rate over
  time, served-format breakdown) and a 7/30/90-day/all-time period
  selector.
• Per-format quality settings, a journal of the last 20 generation events,
  and a one-click “Clear cache” button.
• Available in English plus 14 translated languages (French, Spanish,
  German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Polish, Czech, Turkish,
  Romanian, Greek, Arabic, Indonesian, Russian).

Usage

[imagepipe id="123" width="400" height="300"] in any post/page

content, or from a theme template:

<?php echo esc_url( \ImagePipe\WordPressLite\TemplateHelper::url( get_post_thumbnail_id(), null, 400, 300 ) ); ?>

Building pages with Elementor instead? Drag the “ImagePipe Lite” widget
onto the page from the “ImagePipe” category, no shortcode/template code
needed.

Using the block editor (Gutenberg)? Insert the “ImagePipe” block, same
options, no shortcode/template code needed.