Squishify

Changelog

1.7.0

• New: auto-optimize on upload. Turn it on under Media → Squishify and every image added through WordPress — the Media Library, the block editor, anywhere — is converted and resized in the browser before it is sent, so the full-size original never reaches your server. Pick the output format and a maximum width; a small progress dialog shows what’s happening, with a link to change or turn it off.
• Auto-optimize leaves anything it can’t improve exactly as it is: an image Squishify can’t make smaller is uploaded untouched, as is anything that isn’t a JPEG, PNG, WebP or AVIF. GIFs and SVGs are never converted.
• Keyboard shortcuts for the editor: P, C, S, R, U and T open Presets, Crop, Resize, Rename, Upscale and Color, G switches between Grid and Preview, Delete removes the image you’re on, ↑/↓ move between images, ←/→ slide the before/after compare (hold Shift for bigger steps), Enter finishes an image and moves to the next, and Ctrl/Cmd+Enter applies your settings to every image.
• Press ? at any time — or the link on the start screen — for the full list. Hover any tool and its tooltip now shows the key as well, so the shortcut is findable without going looking for it.
• Shortcuts stand down while you’re typing in a field, and while a crop is open — crop mode keeps Escape and Enter for itself.

1.6.0

• Paste an image straight from your clipboard to add it to the queue — press Ctrl/Cmd+V anywhere in Squishify and it lands like any other file. A screenshot no longer has to be saved to disk first.
• Switch back to the tab with an image still on your clipboard and Squishify offers to paste it for you, with a “Don’t ask again” if you’d rather it didn’t. It stays quiet about an image that’s already in your queue, and about anything it has already offered once.
• The drop area now mentions pasting alongside dropping and browsing, so the shortcut is findable without waiting for the prompt.

1.5.0

• Bulk mode: a Grid / Preview switch in the header, so you can see everything you queued in one place or work through it an image at a time. Grid carries the batch settings underneath; click any tile to edit that image on its own, and the switch brings you back.
• Batch settings apply to the whole queue at once — format, quality and effort, a max width, a crop ratio, and a numbered rename sequence.
• Batch crop is a ratio: pick 1:1, 4:3 or 16:9 and every image gets the largest centred window at that ratio. The thumbnails show the result.
• Pro: Color adjustments join the batch settings, so one set of values covers the whole queue.
• New app header and footer: the logo, the menu and the privacy promise now stay put for the whole session instead of living in the queue panel.
• The queue panel is now part of editing a single image, so the empty state and the grid both use the full width.
• Crops now show in the queue thumbnails instead of only on the stage, and thumbnails are sharper.
• Thumbnails of transparent PNGs, WebP and AVIF no longer flatten to black.
• The drop area now shows a folder instead of a cloud-upload icon. Nothing about how Squishify works has changed — your images have always been processed on your own device and never uploaded anywhere — but the old icon was the one symbol everyone reads as “this goes to a server”, and it was saying the opposite of the truth.
• Fixed: on some browsers, AVIF and PNG encodes could fail in the WordPress admin with a “multithreaded codec excluded” error. The plugin now always uses the codec builds it actually ships with, so it can’t happen on any browser.
• Fixed: on the free WordPress plugin, uploading a batch to the Media Library announced the upload but never closed Squishify, and WordPress went on warning about unsaved work that had already been uploaded. The overlay now tears down and takes you to the Media Library as it always should have.

1.4.2

• The controls bar now offers two named paths instead of one button and a checkbox: “Next file” to keep reviewing image by image, and “Process all” to apply your settings to the whole queue and go straight to the summary.
• Resize opens with “Apply resize to all images” already ticked when there’s more than one image queued — untick it for a one-off. On a single image the option is hidden entirely.
• Rename opens on Sequence when you have a batch queued, and on This image when you don’t. Whichever mode you pick yourself is remembered.
• On the web app, per-image Download is hidden while you’re working on a batch — Process all collects everything into one zip instead.

1.4.0

• Crop is now free, on every version — web and WordPress. Drag a frame or lock it to a ratio and type exact output dimensions, on one image or across the whole batch. It used to be part of Pro; it isn’t any more, and nothing about it was cut down on the way.
• The Pro feature tour now shows Image Boost, which never had a place in it before.

1.3.1

• Opening Squishify from the Media Library now eases in with a real progress bar instead of cutting straight to the editor.
• Fixed: changing a setting across the whole queue — resizing everything, or clearing a resize — left images you had already finished holding their previous version, so they could be downloaded at the old settings. Those images now show that they will be re-encoded, and Finalize brings them up to date.
• More room for your images: the sidebar and drop area now step aside once you have a queue going, and long filenames are trimmed with the full name on hover.
• Tool buttons are shorter — they show the setting itself (“16:9”, “1800px”) instead of spelling it out, so the toolbar keeps its shape as you use more tools.
• The Resize window now tells you the size you’re resizing from.
• Crop gained a Reset, matching Resize — with “Apply to all” ticked it clears the crop across the whole queue.
• Clearing the queue no longer flashes the previous image for a moment when you add new ones.
• The loading sequence when images arrive now plays for every batch, not just the first one of a session.

1.3.0

• Rename now has three modes — rename this image, number a whole sequence, or type a name for every image in one pass.
• Sequences can skip the prefix entirely, so you can number files 1, 2, 3.
• Sequences are zero-padded automatically, so 12 images sort correctly instead of running 1, 10, 11, 12, 2.
• Add more images to a numbered batch and they pick up the sequence instead of arriving unnamed.
• Switching between rename modes keeps what you already typed.
• Fixed an error that could interrupt the first image of a batch with an “Encode failed” message when it was added.
• Various interface adjustments.

1.2.2

• Adding a batch now eases in: a brief loading pass, then your images arrive in the queue one after another — so you can see at a glance how many landed.
• The file heading now shows where you are in the queue (“1 of 15”), next to the filename and dimensions.
• “Apply to all” is now a checkbox on the main button instead of a second button competing with it — tick it and Next file becomes Finalize, which processes everything and takes you straight to the summary.
• Slimmer format and quality bar, leaving noticeably more room for the image you’re actually working on.
• Images scaled down to the maximum working size are now reported once, with a count of how many were affected, instead of a separate notice per image.
• Notices and toasts no longer sit on top of dialogs.

1.2.0

• Batch rename is now part of the free tier — give a whole set a base name and automatic numbering, no licence needed.

1.1.2

• Fixed resized images looking softer or jagged compared to a desktop editor’s export, especially on small or heavily cropped outputs — resizing now uses a sharper algorithm, with safeguards to keep large source photos fast.

1.1.0

• Drag a whole folder of images onto the dropzone to queue everything inside it at once.
• SVG images now rasterize at a proper working size instead of their (often tiny) declared dimensions.
• Added an in-app “what’s new” modal so you’ll see a quick summary the next time a new version ships.

1.0.1

• Fix: guard against a file being added to the queue twice from a single drop/select action.

1.0.0

• First public release: editor overlay, batch queue, upload to Media Library.

0.1.0

• First development release: editor overlay, batch queue, upload to Media Library.