October 6, 2026
Product Variation Galleries (Color/Size) Without Multiplying Generated Files
How ImagePipe's on-demand cache handles WooCommerce color/size variations without pre-generating every preset combination in advance.
Practical guides.
Concrete explanations to take advantage of ImagePipe on your shop.
October 6, 2026
October 1, 2026
Preparing Your Image Library Before a Traffic Spike (Black Friday, Sales)
A practical checklist for the week before a seasonal peak: preset coverage, cache warm-up, and site quota, so the first visitor of the day isn't the one generating variants.
September 22, 2026
Managing Multiple Stores With a Single ImagePipe License
A practical walkthrough for an agency running several client stores on one Ultimate or Business license: activating a new site, tracking the remaining quota, and freeing a slot.
September 17, 2026
Stop manually setting catalog/gallery sizes in the WooCommerce Customizer
Why WooCommerce's native catalog and gallery image-size settings become irrelevant once ImagePipe presets cover those placements.
September 3, 2026
Troubleshooting an image that stays JPEG/PNG instead of switching to WebP/AVIF
An image stubbornly stays in JPEG or PNG even though automatic replacement is enabled? Before looking for a bug, this checklist covers the most frequent causes, from the simplest to the rarest.
September 1, 2026
Sizing your presets for a custom WooCommerce theme
The five presets provided by ImagePipe cover the standard spots of a classic WooCommerce theme, but a custom theme rarely displays its thumbnails at exactly the same dimensions. How to compute the right target sizes instead of keeping the defaults.
August 27, 2026
<picture> vs native srcset: why ImagePipe replaces one with the other
WordPress natively generates a srcset attribute on every media library image. ImagePipe systematically removes it on the spots it replaces, not to replace it with its own srcset, but in favor of a <picture> that plays a different role.
August 25, 2026
Setting up a watermark on your product images without slowing down your store
A watermark protects your visuals against theft, but poorly configured, it can multiply the number of variants to generate for no real benefit. How to enable it on the right image families without weighing down your store.
August 20, 2026
Do you need to clear the ImagePipe cache after a theme change?
Switching themes often changes the actual display sizes of your images, does that mean you need to clear the ImagePipe cache? In most cases, no: here's why, and the rare cases where it's still worth doing.
August 18, 2026
Migrating to ImagePipe from Smush, ShortPixel or Imagify without double compression
Switching from a classic compression plugin to ImagePipe changes the underlying logic: ImagePipe never touches or replaces your original file, it generates variants on demand instead. How to cleanly disable the old plugin to avoid double compression and URL-rewriting conflicts.
August 13, 2026
Why format=auto should never end up in a cached page
An image reachable through a single URL, whose format changes depending on the visitor: that's what format=auto allows, and exactly what should never end up in a cached page. How ImagePipe protects against this by default, and the trap that remains if you build your own integration.
August 11, 2026
Alt text, file name and ImageObject schema: what actually matters for image SEO
Descriptive alt text, an explicit file name, an ImageObject schema: 2026 studies show up to +12-18% clicks on Google Images for product pages that check these three boxes. None of them is automated by an image optimization engine, here's why, and how to handle them.
August 6, 2026
Generating an image sitemap to capture Google Images traffic
Google Images alone drives about 22% of web traffic according to several 2026 studies. A dedicated XML image sitemap speeds up discovery by Google, independently of the usual crawl of product pages.
July 24, 2026
Test your license without consuming an activation
A local development domain doesn't count toward your license's site quota, so you can validate your installation before switching your real store to production.
July 15, 2026
How to activate WebP/AVIF automatically on WooCommerce
Install ImagePipe, let it automatically negotiate the lightest format each browser can display, without touching the theme or re-uploading a single image.
July 10, 2026
Understanding ImagePipe Presets
product_card, product_page, category_banner, manufacturer_logo, mobile_thumbnail: what each preset is for and when to use it.