{"id":67641,"date":"2025-01-26T17:26:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T16:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/67641\/preview-of-webp-files-in-windows-explorer\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T17:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T16:26:39","slug":"preview-of-webp-files-in-windows-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/67641\/preview-of-webp-files-in-windows-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview of .webp files in Windows Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retrofit preview of .webp files in Windows.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Google likes .webp files in websites because they have a significantly smaller file size with good quality. That&#8217;s why I mainly use this format for our <a href=\"https:\/\/acapio.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new web project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only annoying thing is that they are not displayed as a preview in Explorer and in the Windows file dialogues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"279\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_1.png 510w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_1-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But there is a solution, a small <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/winseros\/WebpPreviewForWindowsExplorer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open source plugin<\/a>. We download this from the website under &#8220;Releases&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"302\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_2.png 527w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_2-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we install it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_3.png 495w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_3-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After installation, .webp files are also displayed with Windows preview.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"374\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_4.png 782w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_4-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/webp_4-768x367.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retrofit preview of .webp files in Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1644,1558],"class_list":["post-67641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-explorer-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}