Image settings DX tweaks in documentation #13232
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thibaudcolas
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Jul 12, 2025
| @@ -412,14 +412,47 @@ Custom storage classes should subclass `django.core.files.storage.Storage`. See | |||
| ### `WAGTAILIMAGES_EXTENSIONS` | |||
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| ```python | |||
| WAGTAILIMAGES_EXTENSIONS = ['png', 'jpg'] | |||
| WAGTAILIMAGES_EXTENSIONS = ['avif', 'svg'] | |||
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Not precious about which extensions we have in there, was just trying to go some way towards avoiding #13127
| ### `WAGTAILIMAGES_JPEG_QUALITY` | ||
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| WAGTAILIMAGES_JPEG_QUALITY = 75 |
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Here and below – I chose to demo the settings with realistic values, that should work on all sorts of sites, and lead to smaller images than our defaults.
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Those are pretty small tweaks, attempting to make it more likely for developers to make advantage of available image optimizations: the AVIF format, and the quality settings.
Related: #12789, #13127