The WordPress Performance team has put its WebP by Default proposal on hold after the community voiced some critical feedback and significant technical concerns of this proposal. The new feature that was proposed would generate WebP images on upload by default for new JPEG uploads and would use the WebP images by default for website content. WordPress’…

WordPress’ Performance Team has published a feature proposal that would enable WebP images by default in the next update to WordPress, expanding core support for the modern image format.  In July, 2021, WordPress 5.8 introduced WebP support, which allows its users to upload and use WebP images in their content. If the proposal is eventually approved, version 6.0…