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Flying Pigs Uploader

Name: Flying Pigs Uploader
Author: herb morris

Bulk media uploads that fly: every size and every WebP/AVIF companion is made in your browser, and the files land on the server in packed batches.

Flying Pigs Uploader ranks #56,583 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #4,654 of 6,403 in the Media category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Sep 24, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v0.11.101 Current Version v0.11.101

Updated 2 days ago Last Update on 24 Sep, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 0.11.101
Last Updated: Sep 24, 2026
Requires WP: 6.5+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: herb morris

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Flying Pigs Uploader

No. Your files go from the browser to your own site, and the free plugin makes no request to any outside service; see External services. There is no account or key in the free plugin.

Any browser with WebAssembly threads: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Safari 16.4 or later, and Firefox. On a browser without them, and on most iPads and iPhones, the page still uploads, with WordPress making the sizes on the server as usual.

The image work happens in a browser engine that needs a fixed 1 GB of memory per worker. Desktop browsers grant it; iPadOS and iOS (Safari and Chrome alike, the same engine underneath) often refuse it, and so does a page that is not cross-origin isolated. When you press Start, the page checks the engine first. If it cannot start, the run does not start: a notice says why, the header switches, and from then on that device works in fallback mode — the originals upload as they are and WordPress makes the sizes on the server, the way its own uploader does. What you lose in fallback is every job only the engine can do: optimizing the original (auto rotate, remove metadata, resize), PNG to JPG, the AI Data Mining statement, the WebP and AVIF effort settings, and in Pro the watermark and overwriting in place. HEIC and other formats the engine decodes but your host's PHP cannot land as they are. And the speed win: the host resizes every image again, so the run costs it CPU and takes longer. Those options disable on the page with the reason beside them, so what you see is what will run. Optimizer plugins such as Smush and EWWW tell WordPress 7.1 to turn its own browser-side processing off so that originals keep reaching them on the server. That does not put Flying Pigs in fallback: the page brings its own engine, its own isolation headers, and hides its uploads from those plugins. A site that really wants the server path can return false from the fpig_client_side_possible filter. What you keep is everything the server can honour: the upload machinery itself (packed batches, chunked large files, retries, run recovery, and Pro's turbo lanes), the Sizes panel, JPG quality, WebP and AVIF companions with their quality and discard-if-larger settings (where the host's image library writes them), media folders, file and post dates, delivery and throttling. WebP only (Pro) works too, in two steps: the JPEG or PNG uploads, the server makes its WebP, and the base is dropped before the file reaches the library.

Only if something serves them, and the Delivery panel makes sure something does. If a delivery plugin is already active, the panel names it and leaves it in charge; the sidecar names Flying Pigs writes are the ones those plugins serve. If nothing is serving them, "Set up delivery for me" tests your server and turns on a rewrite in the site .htaccess (Apache and LiteSpeed; the panel reports whether WebP, AVIF and the Vary: Accept header came back from the test) or, where the host will not honour one, wraps your images in a tag on the page. Both are reversible from the same panel. Pro's WebP only needs none of this: the uploads are WebP and are served as they are.

Not on upload. Smush, EWWW, ShortPixel, reSmush.it and the host's bundled optimizers take their turn from WordPress's upload hooks, and Flying Pigs lifts them off for its own writes, so a file optimized in the browser lands once and stays as the browser made it. A bulk or background optimizer that scans the library later can still touch the files; leave those off for the pig's uploads or exclude the folder.

It can say so, in the file. The Media panel's AI Data Mining option writes the IPTC "Data Mining" rights statement (IPTC Photo Metadata Standard 2023.1) as an XMP packet into every file the browser makes: the original when it is optimized, every size, every WebP and AVIF. Choose "No AI training, allow search indexing" (the default), "No AI training, no search indexing", "Allow AI training" or "No statement". With Remove metadata on it is the only metadata that travels (about 400 bytes); off, the original keeps its own metadata with the statement merged into its XMP packet, while sizes and companions carry the statement alone, as WordPress strips their metadata. It is a statement, not a lock: crawlers that read the standard honour it, and the rest do not. It is engine work, so fallback mode lands files without it. For a signal crawlers cannot miss, add robots.txt rules or an X-Robots-Tag header for your uploads folder as well.

FileBird, Real Media Library, CatFolders, Mediamatic, Folders by Premio, Wicked Folders (once its media folders are switched on in its settings), HappyFiles, and any plugin that files media under a hierarchical taxonomy. Pick the folder in the run options, subfolders included, and every upload in the run lands in it. Media folders are virtual: they never change where the file sits on disk. That is the File date picker's job, in Pro.

Resize image before upload (2560×2560 by default), WebP only (store only the WebP, with no JPEG or PNG kept), a watermark with a text and logo maker, turbo-boost multi-lane uploads with a link check that sizes them, overwriting existing files in place with builder and gallery references repaired, the File date picker (the file's own date, or one you choose, decides the uploads folder) and a separate Set post date, photos onto WooCommerce products by the SKU in their names, plus updates through WordPress's Plugins screen and the help desk. Optimizing, PNG to JPG, WebP and AVIF companions, choosing which sizes to make and which get a companion, delivery, the AI Data Mining statement and media folders are all free. See flying-pigs.wpspeedmeup.com for Pro.