Introduction
WordPress enables users to upload different kinds of image files such as PNG and JPEG or another file type such as vector graphics, which can be more problematic.
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files are used to display two-dimensional images on WordPress sites as there is always a need to incorporate vector files into your website. You can use the file type for logos and icons with some added configuration.
In this article, we will discuss SVG files and where to use them, how they are added to your WordPress and how can you optimize the performance of your website with it.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Introduction
What is an SVG?
Why use SVG?
How to upload SVG to WordPress?
- Use a plugin
- Manually Enable SVG File Uploads,
How can adding SVP to WordPress benefit your website?
Conclusion
Closing
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What is an SVG?
An SVG file is a type of vector image. Vector files are different from common image files. SVG is not the same as any other PNG or JPEG for instance JPG is made of thousands of pixels but it is not the same with SVG.
Vector images are more of a set of written instructions. They have a set of data that creates a two-dimensional image rather than thousands of pixels coming together to form an image. This is the unique feature we have in SVG.
Why use SVG?
SVG have their own advantages. Being highly scalable, enabling you to manipulation the size and compatibility of the image without causing a hindrance to the quality of the image. As we compare it to JPG changing the size degrades the quality of the image. Being high scalable and compatible makes it an added advantage for optimizing your website as the lower the image size, the faster the image loads to your website.
SVG comes in handy for having your images optimized for better performance. As we consider, they aren’t meant for traditional photographs, but their perks are they are great for business logos, icons, or other simple graphics of your website.
SVG tends to be smaller than your regular image size which does not slow down your website for loading images which also contributes to your SEO as well as the performance of the website.
How to upload SVG to WordPress?
Since WP doesn’t include support for SVG, you will have to work a little harder and put in some more effort to include SVG on your website.
Below are some methods through which you can add SVG to WordPress making your website more optimistic,
- Use a plugin
WordPress can accept many plugins as a task, which can give you an option of adding SVG as a plugin, all you have to do is configure with few settings those are,
- Download and install the SVG plugin. You will receive a set of instructions under the WordPress dashboard named SVG support. Configure some administrative settings and roles for your SVG which will allow you directly add SVG files to your media library.
- Enable GZip support of SVG Files on Your Server. Adding GZip files enables you with your SVG files optimized appropriately and quickly.
- Ensure that plugins are correctly securing files as SVG files are XML based due to security issues making it a major concern for making your website vulnerable.
When you configure your plugin, you may limit SVG access to administrators only which can reduce the risk of unnecessary XML files that makes your website slow.
- Manually Enable SVG File Uploads,
If you feel plugins isn’t the right choice for you, you can manually add SVP to your WordPress by these simple steps,
- Edit your site Function.PHP File into the dashboard of edit themes or you can access the FTP application of the site. Suggested is that you switch to the development environment before you try to make any changes so your site is safe while you are making any changes.
- Add a code snippet after which you will be able to upload SVG images to your Media Library which you can view together with other image types.
- Secure Access and Limit SVG Upload Permissions as we did in the plugin, we have the options directly but here we have to manually monitor and change the permissions and administrations of your SVG. The roles are very much important in maintaining the security of your website.
These are some techniques through which you can add SVG to your WordPress.
How can adding SVP to WordPress benefit your website?
The main reason SVG files have been so popular is they are smaller in size without compromising the quality of the images. They don’t pixelate on retina screens. WordPress as a default does not allow you to add SVG file format, mainly due to its security breaches.
But, adding SVG to WordPress can be beneficial as you have optimized images that are faster and when combined with WordPress makes your website more optimistic and better in performance.
WordPress itself provides you with high performance and speed of the website but optimizing the images too is a vital factor in keeping your website quick in response, the place SVG walks in playing a critical role.
Conclusion
In this article, we learned about SVG and how it is a simple way of optimizing images that can contribute to the better performance of your website. Adding an SVP file as a plugin or manually adding it to the code allowing it to the media library can enhance the image optimization of WordPress making it performance results better than before.
Closing
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