AVIF Local Support
High-quality AVIF image conversion for WordPress — local, quality-first.
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·10 active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, AVIF Local Support is a WordPress AVIF plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.8+ and PHP 8.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Modern Image Formats.
0/5Rating
10active installs
1.6K+total downloads
1 yearsince 2025
Overview
Built by a Boston photographer for site owners who care about visual quality and full control. This plugin prioritizes image quality over everything else — no subscriptions, no external services.
Features
- Local Processing — All conversion happens on your server. No subscriptions or external API calls. Works great on a shared CPU with 2GB RAM.
- Quality First — Uses LANCZOS resizing, preserves ICC color profiles, and keeps EXIF/XMP/IPTC metadata intact.
- Fully Tunable — Control quality (0–100), speed (0–10), chroma subsampling (4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4), and bit depth (8/10/12-bit).
- Smart Fallback — Serves AVIF to supported browsers, JPEG to everyone else via picture elements.
- Automatic Conversion — Convert on upload or via daily scheduled background scans.
- LQIP Placeholders — Generate ThumbHash-…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 8.3+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
0.6.3
- Fix: Lightbox/slideshow links now correctly rewrite from JPEG to AVIF when the image was already wrapped in a
<picture>element by another plugin (e.g. photo-collage). Previously the<a>href rewriting was skipped for images inside<picture>, causing lightboxes to load full-size JPEGs instead of AVIFs.
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