OptiFoto for WordPress

Heavy photos make slow pages. OptiFoto is a small WordPress plugin from the people behind GuardaFoto: it shrinks every photo you upload — converted to WebP, or just recompressed — for free. No credits, no account, no API key.

Download OptiFoto (.zip, v1.0.0)

What it does

• Optimizes on upload, automatically. JPEG and PNG become WebP at the quality you pick (82 by default) — or keep their format and only lose the weight.
• Strips EXIF and other metadata out of every optimized photo.
• Keeps a backup of each original beside it as <file>.optifoto-bak — and a file is only replaced when the optimized version is actually smaller. A “Restore original” link in the media library puts any photo back.
• Shows the saving per photo in your media library (“OptiFoto: −74%”), plus a totals panel on the settings page.
• Your existing library too: bulk optimization in batches of 10, from Media → Bulk OptiFoto. Interface in English or Spanish, following your site's language.

Install it

1. Download the .zip above.
2. In your WordPress: Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, pick the file, activate.
3. That's it — the defaults work out of the box. Quality and backups live under Settings → OptiFoto; old photos, under Media → Bulk OptiFoto.

How it works, honestly

The optimizing happens on the free OptiFoto API at api.guardafoto.com: the plugin sends the file itself — plus the quality and mode you chose, nothing else — and the API works on the image in memory and keeps no copy of it. The only trace is one technical line per optimization (time, mode, bytes in and out), never your photo or its name. The plugin sends no user data, post content or admin details anywhere.

Free means free: the one limit is fair use — 1,000 optimizations per site per day — there to stop abuse, not to sell you an upgrade. OptiFoto is in the WordPress.org review queue; when it's listed, you'll install it from your dashboard by searching “OptiFoto”. Until then, this .zip is the same package.

The fine print: our Terms and Privacy Policy cover both GuardaFoto and OptiFoto. OptiFoto is a GuardaFoto tool — an A3Q Global imprint.