Supported Media

The featured image is fetched for embed videos like YouTube or Vimeo. Self-hosted MP4 is not supported.

Post Format

The auto featured images feature works only for posts set to the Video post format.

Frontend Post

When a video is submitted via frontend uploader, the uploader set the post format automatically to Video.

Backend Post

When you add video embed manually on the backend, you have to set the post format to Video manually.

Enable

To enable this functionality, please follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the WordPress Admin › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Auto Featured Images section
3. Enable the Auto-download embed featured images checkbox.

In order to change the setup of Expire Headers, please follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Expire Headers section
3. Check or uncheck the Enabled? box

You can also alter the content of the .htaccess code using the textbox.

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the GIF to MP4 section
3. Set your Cloud Convert API key. You need to first sing up on the cloudconvert.com site.
4. If you want to serve MP4 files from Amazon S3 Cloud Storage instead of local disk (default), please change the Store MP4 files option to on Amazon S3 and fill your S3 account data.

To enable hotlink protection, please follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Hotlink Protection section
3. Check the Enabled? box to turn on the protection
4. Access allowed for URLs allows you to make exceptions for some sites. Some social media are added by default,
   to enable sharing with the featured image
5. Block direct access to these files allows you to set the file formats to be protected
6. Turn off Direct requests to make the protection stronger (but less stable). Not recommended.
7. Redirect blocked request to this URL – where you can type in the URL of a replacement image that will be sent instead of the hot-linked one.

Regenerate Thumbnails

To regenerate the thumbnails, please follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Image Bulk Actions< section
3. Press Start in the Regenerate Thumbnails subsection

Add Watermarks

To add watermarks to all the images, please follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Image Bulk Actions< section
3. Press Start in the Add Watermarks subsection

Remove Watermarks

To remove watermarks from all the images, please follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Image Bulk Actions< section
3. Press Start in the Remove Watermarks subsection

Services

Here are some examples of image optimization services that you can use with Bimber:

WP Smush

TinyPNG

EWWW Image Optimizer

How Does It Work?

Image optimization services will take any image you upload to your site and pass it through a special algorithm which will decrease the size of the file. This includes any image you upload from the backend and the frontend using Snax’s Frontend Submission.

All the enlisted plugins support lossless compression. They will improve the loading times for your site, reduce the usage of the server space, and also improve your SEO by upgrading your performance rating in Page Speed Insights.

How To Use the Plugins?

All the enlisted plugins should work out of the box and optimize every image uploaded to the site after the activation. They also all offer a bulk optimization option in the media library to take care of your archive files. In most cases, the default settings are a good starting point. For advanced configuration, please refer to each
plugin’s documentation.

How Much Does It Cost?

Notice: please refer to the plugins’ official sites for the current pricing.

WP Smush offers an unlimited free plan and an optional PRO version for more options and bigger images ($49 /month).

EWW has a free version that will optimize your files locally using your server’s CPU. You can also switch to a paid
cloud service which is priced by the amount (around $0.003 per image).

TinyPNG has a free plan for approximately 100 images and a paid plan for around $0.009 per image

Edit Sizes

To manage image sizes, please follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Image Sizes section
3. In the Custom section, you can add your own sizes.
4. In the Theme and Plugins subsection, you can edit or deactivate sizes used by plugins or the theme
5. In the WordPress subsection, you can edit the sizes that are created by default by WordPress core.
   They can’t be disabled.
6. In the Inactive subsection, you can reactivate the disabled sizes

Detect Unused Sizes

Not all image sizes are required at the same time. Depends on your site’s configuration, some sizes are in use, and some not. Unfortunately, WordPress requires to register them all, and this results in generating a lot of unnecessary intermediate image sizes (thumbnails) on your disk. To help you with this we’ve built a tool to detect active image sizes. It helps you recognize which sizes can be disabled.

To detect and disable unused image sizes, please:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Image Sizes section
3. On the image size list, in the In use column you will find:
   • yes – this image size is required, don’t disable it
   • unknown – this image size is probably not necessary, you can try to disable it. Be aware we are not able to check all possible
     occurrences and in some cases, this size may be in use, e.g. by 3rd party plugin

Lazy Load Images

To enable lazy loading for images, please follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Lazy load section
3. Turn on Lazy load images to enable lazy loading images
4. Check the Load image with unveiling effects if you want to use animation during images revealing

Lazy Load Embeds

To enable lazy loading for embeds, please follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Lazy load section
3. Turn on Lazy load embeds to enable lazy loading embedded content (i.e. YouTube videos or a Spotify player)

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Image Bulk Actions section
3. Press the Start button in the Regenerate Thumbnails
4. The whole process might take some time depending on the number of images

You can also regenerate thumbnails for a specific image or set of images. In order to do this, please follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Media panel
2. Select the images you want to affect
3. Pick Regenerate Thumbnails from the Bulk Actions and press Apply

Supported Sources

Automatic video length is supported for:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• Self-Hosted (MP4)

Video Post Format

Video length is automatically set only for posts in Video post format.

Automatic Length

To enable automatic video length, please do as follows:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard › Settings › Media Ace panel
2. Switch to the Video section
3. Check the Auto video length option
4. Save changes

Manual Setup

If your video is not supported, you can set its length manually. To do so, please do as follows:

1. Go to the post edit view
2. Scroll down to the Video Options section
3. Fill in the Manual video length section (screen)
4. Save post