Peter has always been a programmer, a childhood hobby led to a career that he is absolutely enjoying. He graduated from NC State University with a Computer Science degree, and worked as a web developer using PHP and MySQL until he found WordPress and fell in love with it. Peter works primarily on WordPress development at Rivers Agency.
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WordCamp Session:
Image Optimization For WordPress
Session Description:
Get your site speedy again by using images properly and efficiently! You will learn best practices for using the tricks of the trade to optimize images in your theme and in general on your site. Find out how to identify any problem areas and fix them, save on storage and bandwidth, and keep your website loading fast.
This talk covers how to use images properly, which image formats to use and when to use them, different techniques for optimizing image resources in your theme, and suggested tools and plugins for development and ongoing maintenance for the images on your website.
Track:
Power Users
