Optimize and configure images

Image Management

Content editors often struggle with images: wrong sizes, heavy files, slow loading times or endless cropping. Plate makes this dramatically easier with built-in tools for image optimisation and configuration.

Automatic optimisation

Automatic optimisation

Plate automatically compresses and scales every image to the correct size for the position where it’s used. You can upload files up to 16MB; Plate takes care of the rest:

  • automatic compression
  • automatic conversion to WebP
  • correct resolutions for all viewports (desktop, tablet, mobile)

This saves editors time and significantly improves loading speed for your visitors.


Cropping images

Cropping is simple and fully visual. You can choose from common aspect ratios like 2:3, 16:9, and 1:1, or use freeform cropping when you want to highlight a specific part of an image, perfect for headers, banners or content blocks.

Smart Images Plate Multisite

Get more out of images

Reuse without effort

In Plate, you can reuse the same image across multiple pages and components, each with its own size or crop. Plate automatically scales the image to the right format. And if you update the image in the Media Library, it’s updated everywhere instantly.

Design-driven image options

Depending on your project’s theme, you can enable a variety of image options directly in the CMS, such as:

  • rounded corners
  • coloured overlay gradients
  • adjustable overlay opacity
  • circular image masks
  • subtle image animations

These options are configurable per project and align with the design system of your multisite.

Support formats

Plate supports all common formats, including JPEG, PNG, WebP, and GIF.