A simple Jekyll plugin (forked from chrisanthropic/image_optim-jekyll-plugin) to optimize images using image_optim.
Runs automatically when you jekyll build
:
# Add a new image to the site.
cp ~/downloads/cheese-cat-fail.jpg ~/website/images/
# Build the site; image_optim-jekyll-plugin runs automatically.
~/website:master > bundle exec jekyll build
Configuration file: /home/chris/website/_config.yml
Source: /home/chris/website
Destination: /home/chris/website/_site
Generating...
Optimizing images/cheese-cat-fail.jpg
done.
Auto-regeneration: disabled. Use --watch to enable.
Let's look at what changed:
~/website:master > git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
modified: _image_optim_cache.yml
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
_image_optim_archive/cheese-cat-fail-2016-10-14-09-10-15-02de96ea1978a39c4b7860e8d1125773.jpg
images/cheese-cat-fail.jpg
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
You see three changes:
images/cheese-cat-fail.jpg
, which I added manually to my image root (assets/img
). This image is automatically optimized in-place by the plugin. Repeat: this is not the original file, as optimization is done in-place._image_optim_archive/cheese-cat-fail-2016-10-14-09-10-15-02de96ea1978a39c4b7860e8d1125773.jpg
. This is a copy of the original file (before optimization). It's tagged with the date/time of optimization as well as the MD5 of the original content._image_optim_cache.yml
is for internal use by the plugin (it keeps track of which images have been optimized, and when).Add to your Gemfile:
gem 'image_optim'
gem 'image_optim_pack'
Copy image_optim.rb
to your _plugins
directory.
Note: All paths are relative to the site root.
archive_dir
: Directory in which copies of original images are saved for future reference.
string
"_image_optim_archive"
cache_file
: Path to a file where the plugin keeps its internal metadata.
string
"_image_optim_cache.yml"
image_glob
: Path that specifies which images are to be optimized.
string
"images/**/*.{gif,jpg,jpeg,png}"
You can override configuration defaults by keying them under image_optim
in _config.yml
. Here's an example:
# Site stuff.
title: My Cat Blog
baseurl: "/cats"
permalink: "/:year/:title.html"
# Deployment exclusions.
exclude:
- .gitignore
- Gemfile
- Gemfile.lock
# image_optim-jekyll-plugin customizations.
image_optim:
archive_dir: "assets/full-res-kittens"
cache_file: "tmp/kitty-cache.yml"
image_glob: "assets/img/**/cat-*.{gif,png,jpg,jpeg}"
Note: Your use case will dictate whether you choose to include or exclude your archive_dir
and/or cache_file
in source control.