Set the WebP image quality to 90 in WordPress 5.8

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Set the WebP image quality to 90 in WordPress 5.8 on child sites.

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Execute on Child Sites

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// Use a quality setting of 90 for WebP images.
function filter_webp_quality( $quality, $mime_type ) {
  if ( 'image/webp' === $mime_type ) {
     return 90;
  }
  return $quality;
}
add_filter( 'wp_editor_set_quality', 'filter_webp_quality', 10, 2 );
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That’s pretty cool! Thanks for the heads-up :smiley:

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What is the default value used by WordPress?

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Let me check in WordPress core for WebP images default.

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Default image quality is set as 82 in WordPress core it used to be 90.

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