Kirby 3 CMS plugin for converting JPG, JPEG and PNG into much smaller WEBP – speed up your website! 🚀🔥
composer require felixhaeberle/kirby3-webp
git submodule add https://github.com/felixhaeberle/kirby3-webp.git site/plugins/kirby3-webp
Activate the plugin in the site/config/config.php file with kirby3-webp => true.
return [
'kirby3-webp' => true
]
After installing and activating the plugin, you need to serve webp files to the frontend with your server configuration.
Add the following to your .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
# Checking for WebP browser support ..
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} image/webp
# .. and if there's a WebP version for the requested image
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.webp -f
# Well, then go for it & serve WebP instead
RewriteRule (.+)\.(jpe?g|png)$ $1.webp [T=image/webp,E=accept:1]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header append Vary Accept env=REDIRECT_accept
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddType image/webp .webp
</IfModule>
For NGINX, use the following virtual host configuration:
// First, make sure that NGINX' `mime.types` file includes 'image/webp webp'
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
// Checking if HTTP's `ACCEPT` header contains 'webp'
map $http_accept $webp_suffix {
default "";
"~*webp" ".webp";
}
server {
// ...
// Checking if there's a WebP version for the requested image ..
location ~* ^.+\.(jpe?g|png)$ {
add_header Vary Accept;
// .. and if so, serving it
try_files $1$webp_ext $uri =404;
}
}
You have multiple options when using kirby3-webp to configure it to your needs:
| Option | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
kirby3-webp.quality |
Integer | 90 |
See the Auto quality section. |
kirby3-webp.maxQuality |
Integer | 85 |
Only relevant for jpegs and when quality is set to "auto". |
kirby3-webp.defaultQuality |
Integer | 85 |
|
kirby3-webp.metadata |
Array | "none" |
Valid values: "all", "none", "exif", "icc", "xmp". Note: Currently only cwebp supports all values. gd will always remove all metadata. ewww, imagick and gmagick can either strip all, or keep all (they will keep all, unless metadata is set to none) |
kirby3-webp.encoding |
Array | "auto" |
See the Auto selecting between lossless/lossy encoding section. |
kirby3-webp.skip |
Boolean | false |
If true, conversion will be skipped (ie for skipping png conversion for some converters) |
Sometimes, if the pictures are really big (multiple MB's) the converting process takes naturally longer, but does complete for sure. The .webp gets generated, but not selected, because if the client can accept .webp, the .webp is sent to the client instead of the .png, .jpeg or .jpg. Therefore, you are in need of the Apache/nginx configuration.