ImageMagick Engine

Changelog

1.8.0

  • Security fixes: output escaping, input sanitization, removed inline JS event handlers
  • Replace shell exec with proc_open to prevent shell injection without requiring escapeshellcmd
  • Fix translations not loading
  • Fix double-escaping bug in CLI path validation
  • Fix duplicate option key bug in default settings
  • Detect open_basedir restrictions when testing CLI path
  • Clean up plugin data on uninstall
  • Remove outdated WordPress 3.5 compatibility code
  • Fix resized images having wrong orientation when Exif orientation tag is set
  • Add option to preserve Exif metadata (including GPS) when optimizing for size
  • Add GraphicsMagick as an alternative to ImageMagick

1.7.14

  • Fix how translations was loaded again

1.7.13

  • Fix how translations was loaded

1.7.12

  • Security fix

1.7.9

  • Add better support for ImageMagick 7.0

1.7.8

  • Bugfix

1.7.7

  • Prevent remote code execution vulnerabilities
  • Fix fatal error when “exec” is not allowed by server

1.7.6

  • Fix plugin vulnerabilities and added nonce checks

1.7.4

  • Important bugfix

1.7.3

  • Improve check that image file exists on server
  • Fix check of executable path
  • Tested compability with WordPress 6.0

1.7.2

  • Fixed bug when no image editor available

1.7.1

  • Use WP_Image_Editor class to generate filename
  • Tested compability with WordPress 5.8.1

1.7.0

  • Add option to resize images interlaced
  • Fix: Don’t attempt to regenerate SVG’s.
  • Handle scaled images with wp_get_original_image_path
  • Bugfix cli executable respnsonse
  • Tested compability with WordPress 5.8

1.6.5

  • Turkish translation thanks to Haydar ŞAHİN
  • Bugfix
  • Tested compability with WordPress 5.5

1.6.4

  • Critical bugfix for .jpeg files

1.6.3

  • Clean up code and constant for version (thanks @paulschreiber)
  • Disable warning for is_executable if open_basedir active

1.6.2

  • Added medium_large image size by default
  • Display version of ImageMagick CLI (thanks @marcissimus)

1.6.1

  • Fixed deprecated use of gd_edit_image_support (thanks @chesio)

1.6.0

  • Small bug fixes
  • Small updates to admin UI

1.5.4

  • Fixed a bug that could cause transparency errors with PNG

1.5.3

  • Tested with WP 5.0

1.5.2

  • Tested with WP 4.1

1.5.1

  • Tested with WP 3.6
  • Fix CSS problems with other users of jQuery dialogs

1.5.0

  • Tested with WP 3.5-beta2
  • Allow choosing between optimize for quality & size for each image size
  • Fix resize UI bug in media pop-up and new attachment editor (post.php)
  • Add “ime_after_resize” action after resize
  • Catch Imagick exceptions
  • Modified code now uses more of WP standard coding style
  • Updated French translation, thanks to Damien Fabreguettes
  • Updated Swedish translation for new strings

1.4.0

  • Tested with WP 3.3.1
  • Resize / Force resize button in media library
  • Add more precision to resize % when large nr of images
  • More sanity tests in ajax resize code
  • Use WordPress version of jQuery UI progressbar if available
  • Split plugin init into early and late part
  • Fix PHP notice (in initial plugin configuration)
  • Updated swedish translation for new strings
  • French translation thanks to Damien Fabreguettes

1.3.1

  • Tested with WP 3.2.1
  • Bugfix: escape ‘^’ character on Windows (thanks to alx359)
  • clean up IM command line argument handling a bit

1.3.0

  • Tested agains WP 3.2
  • Fix JS to be compatible with jQuery 1.6
  • Remove some PHP notices
  • Change command line limit values to specifik byte amounts (instead of “mb”) for compatability with really old IM versions
  • Handle open_basename restrictions better
  • Handle older versions (pre 6.3.1) of PHP Imagick class
  • IM and WordPress compute aspect ratio slightly differently, force the WP values

1.2.3

  • Fix bug in resize all images handling, also remove some PHP notices. Thanks to Andreas Kleinschmidt for the report
  • Upgrade jQuery UI Progressbar to version 1.8.9, to match version of UI Core in WordPress

1.2.2

  • Fixed filepath with spaces on Windows
  • Tested with WordPress 3.1.2
  • Added question to FAQ

1.2.1

  • Fix deprecated warning
  • Tested with WordPress 3.1

1.2.0

  • Rewrite image cropping for Imagick PHP module to make sure we keep image profiles. Thanks to Christian Münch for report
  • Improve test for IM executable
  • Administration: AJAXify image resizing, clarify engine selection, only load css/js on actual plugin page
  • Handle progressbar version incompatability for jQuery UI 1.8 (in WP 3.1) and jQuery UI 1.7 (in WP 3.0)
  • Tested with WordPress 3.1-RC2

1.1.2

  • Fix bug with forced resize of custom image sizes
  • Fix warning with open_basedir restriction during path test
  • German translation

1.1.1

  • Fix search-and-replace error from 1.1 that made it impossible to change settings! Thanks to Marco M. Jaeger for report!

1.1

  • Working localization
  • Added Swedish translation

1.0

  • Initial release

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Version:
1.8.0
Last Updated
March 27, 2026
Active Installs
60000
Requires
WordPress 5.0
Tested Up To
WordPress 6.9.4

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