Recommendations Block: Optimize images

[acicovic]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

We have no control over the size of external images that are displayed in the Recommendations Block, but we may have some control in the future for images that are within the website.

Clearly, this is a work in progress even for Gutenberg:

• Enhancement: images handling WordPress/gutenberg#6177
• Make optimized version of original image size, never load original image. WordPress/gutenberg#11822
• https://gitlab.com/WPezPlugins/wpez-guten-better-image

Describe the solution you'd like

Waiting for a Gutenberg solution and using it in our own Block would be the most painless and correct way to do this. The downside is the wait.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Implementing a solution ourselves, but it seems that it would introduce work and complexity which probably aren't within the plugin's scope.

[acicovic]

Checking into this about a year later, we don't seem to have any advancements from the Gutenberg side. We can look into this while working on related issues in case there's a quick solution available. I wouldn't advise us to spend too much time on this though, as this would be solved much better on the Gutenberg side.