The Media and Sizes panels

Two panels under Settings on the Media > Flying Pigs Uploader page decide what each upload becomes. Media sets how the photo itself is treated. Sizes sets which image sizes are made, and which of them get WebP or AVIF copies. The defaults suit most sites.

Only administrators can change these panels, and they apply to everyone's uploads on the site. Items marked Pro are in Flying Pigs Pro only.

The Media panel

Optimize original image

On by default. The original photo is re-saved in your browser before it uploads, usually about 60% smaller, at its own dimensions:

• Auto rotate turns the photo the right way up, using the camera's orientation tag.
• Remove metadata strips camera data such as the camera model and GPS location.

Turn Optimize off to upload the original exactly as it is, byte for byte. The sizes are still made, and the watermark (Pro) needs Optimize on.

Resize image (Pro)

Fits the original within a width and height before it uploads: 2560 × 2560 by default, the same limit WordPress uses for big images. A 6,000-pixel camera file never reaches your server. It never enlarges a smaller photo. Set a side to 0 to leave it free.

AI Data Mining

Writes a standard rights statement into every file the browser makes, telling AI crawlers what they may do with it:

• No AI training, allow search indexing (the default)
• No AI training, no search indexing
• Allow AI training
• No statement

It is a statement, not a lock: crawlers that read the standard honor it, and others do not.

Quality

• JPG, default 82: the quality of JPEG files, including every size.
• PNG, default 82: PNG files are reduced to a palette of colors at this quality, which makes them much smaller.
• Lossless PNG keeps full color in PNG files instead.

PNG → JPG

Converts PNG photos to JPEG, which is far smaller for photographs. Choose Non transparent only to leave PNGs with transparency alone, or All to convert everything, with a background color for the transparent areas. It needs Optimize original image on.

WebP copies

Add WebP is on by default, at quality 75 and effort 3. A WebP copy is made for the original and every size you choose in the Sizes panel, and one that comes out larger than its source is thrown away. The copies sit beside each file, as photo.jpg.webp. See Working with WebP images for getting them to visitors.

WebP only (Pro)

On by default in Pro. The photo and every size are stored as WebP, with no JPEG or PNG kept beside them: half the files, and browsers get the WebP with nothing extra to set up. Every current browser shows WebP, but email and some link previews do not. Turn it off to keep the originals.

AVIF copies

Off by default. Add AVIF makes AVIF copies the same way, with their own quality and effort. See Working with AVIF images for the settings that make AVIF worth it.

The Sizes panel

The panel lists every image size registered on your site: WordPress's own, plus any added by your theme, WooCommerce or other plugins, with each size's width, height and whether it is cropped. The top line says how many there are.

• Tick a size to make it, untick it to skip it. Enable all sizes and Disable all sizes do the whole list.
• The WebP and AVIF columns choose which sizes get a copy in that format.
• With WebP only on, the base column steps aside: a size is made if it is ticked under WebP or AVIF, and not made if it is ticked under neither.

Skipping sizes your site never shows saves time, disk space and files. A WooCommerce store, for example, often never uses WordPress's medium, large, 1536 and 2048 sizes. Check your theme before you untick a size: a size nothing asks for is safe to skip, one your theme shows is not.

The Sizes panel only affects uploads made with Flying Pigs. The WordPress Media page keeps making every registered size, as before. To change the list itself, use your theme or a plugin that manages image sizes. New sizes show up in the panel automatically.

The panel headers

Each panel's header sums up its settings at a glance, for example Media optimize · no AI training · WebP only or Sizes 0/9 base · 5/9 WebP · 0/9 AVIF. Click the header to open the panel.