{"id":21718,"date":"2022-09-11T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-web.design\/?p=21718"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:04:52","slug":"edit-images-before-uploading-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/netzwerk.design\/en\/blog\/bilder-bearbeiten-vor-upload-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I edit images before uploading them to the WordPress media library?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to include images on your website, you must before the upload<\/span> into the WordPress media centre. Minimal editing includes scaling to the required resolution and compression using a compression tool. Editing for image enhancement may be necessary beforehand. Why is this important?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/svg><\/span>How to prepare images for use on your website<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The loading time of a website is an important criterion for the ranking of the page in search engines such as Google. In addition to many other factors, the size of the images and graphics used has a particularly strong impact on this and is a first major lever for significantly reducing the loading time of a website. After all, if a page takes longer than 3 seconds to load, many users will have already left before they have seen your content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you still have unscaled or uncompressed images in your WordPress media library, it's worth revising and re-uploading them. I have summarised my own workflow for preparing images for websites for you below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/svg><\/span>Quick guide: Workflow image processing before uploading<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n