PixelCraft with WebP

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20 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 9 listed. 11 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 51% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 3 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 600.

1. ★★★★★ webfixerro

   4mo ago

   Installed this on a WooCommerce store with a few thousand product images. Bulk conversion ran fast and smooth, no timeouts or errors. Encoder detection worked correctly (picked up Imagick automatically) and the “Serve WebP in HTML” option swapped image URLs properly in srcset without breaking anything. Went through the plugin’s own PHP code before installing since it’s a newer listing with few reviews — everything is clean, no external calls, no telemetry, just local GD/Imagick conversion like the description says. Nonces and capability checks are all in place on the AJAX endpoints too. Combined with LiteSpeed Cache’s WebP vary rule, delivery works as expected once you purge cache after a bulk run. No conflicts with other image plugins on the site once I made sure only one plugin handles WebP at a time. Solid, well-built plugin that does exactly what it promises. Recommended.

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2. ★★★★★ creativeuser

   6mo ago

   I installed this plugin to optimize images on my WordPress site and honestly it worked better than I expected. The setup was simple and the WebP conversion started automatically. My pages feel noticeably faster now. Really clean plugin without unnecessary complexity.

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3. ★★★★★ rojvanzelal

   6mo ago

   I just wanted to leave a review to say that this is a great plugin. I’ve been trying to get the editors of my blog to upload images using webp for a long time in order to save space and improve speed. But it was too much effort for them to do it manually every time, so I was looking for a plugin to do it automatically. All the others I saw had some limitations on the free version that made it impossible to use. But this one just does what I need, so I’m glad to have found it. Just a warning for Polylang users. If you don’t want PixelCraft to store the original images after converting them to webp, make sure that in the settings of Polylang the “Media” translation module is disabled. Otherwise the original image won’t be deleted and they will just sit in your uploads folder silently taking up space. This is caused by Polylang stopping the deletion of attachment files by adding a filter to the “wp_delete_file” function used by the PixelCraft plugin and stopping it from deleting the file. This is not really a bug in PixelCraft itself, just a consequence of the unpredictable ways plugins interact with each other due to the architecture of WordPress code itself. Therefore I won’t lower my review. But if in a future update a feature to avoid this problem was implemented in PixelCraft, that would be awesome. It’s not really an issue for me, but for people who are not able to look through the code it would be very hard to understand what is happening if they run into this problem. Anyway, thanks again for the work that went into making this plugin.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-08-06 600+ → 500+ down after 82 days in tier
2. 2026-05-16 500+ → 600+ up after 9 days in tier
3. 2026-05-07 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
4. 2026-05-05 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2026-05-03 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
6. 2026-05-01 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2026-04-30 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2026-04-29 20+ → 90+ up after 1 days in tier

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PixelCraft with WebP: 500+ active installs, 5.0★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/pixelcraft-webp