Hey everyone! Just wanted to post a quick “public service announcement” that Stoyan Stefanov’s smush.it tool now comes as an automated Wordpress plug-in! Smush.it offers the following resources:
* stripping meta data from JPEG images
* optimizing JPEG compression
* converting certain GIF files to indexed PNGs
* stripping the unnecessary colors from indexed images
Basically, smush.it will run in the background on your Wordpress site, automatically reducing the size of your imagery on your behalf. The only sad, selfish thing is that I cannot use it on this particular blog…as the before-and-after optimization examples I try to illustrate would be impacted by all of the “before” images being adjusted. However, if you operate a Wordpress blog, definitely give that plug-in a look!
