{"id":1527,"date":"2024-12-27T12:32:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=1527"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:36:17","password":"","slug":"how-to-migrate-from-imagify-to-shortpixel","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/how-to-migrate-from-imagify-to-shortpixel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to migrate from Imagify to ShortPixel ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Migrating from Imagify to ShortPixel is fairly simple, all you need to do is follow the steps below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Restore your images to their original state either using Imagify or your hosting provider&#8217;s backups. (This is mainly helpful to avoid overcompression issues, but it\u2019s not mandatory.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/shortpixel-image-optimiser\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/shortpixel-image-optimiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Install and enable ShortPixel Image Optimizer<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disable Imagify<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose the settings that you need from ShortPixel Image Optimizer and run a Bulk Optimization (<strong>Media<\/strong> > <strong>Bulk ShortPixel<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it, you&#8217;re all set! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cCould not create backup. Please check file permissions\u201d error during optimization?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This error could occur for several reasons, so please check out <a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/error-could-not-create-backup-please-check-file-permissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this article<\/a> for detailed instructions on how to resolve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Got any questions or need our help?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/contact\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reach out to us<\/a> and we will be happy to help and answer all your questions! We\u2019re available 24\/7 and typically respond within 10-15 minutes. &#x1f642;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrating from Imagify to ShortPixel is fairly simple, all you need to do is follow the steps below: That&#8217;s it, you&#8217;re all set! \ud83d\ude42 \u201cCould not create backup. Please check file permissions\u201d error during optimization? This error could occur for several reasons, so please check out this article for detailed instructions on how to resolve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[37],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1527","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-shortpixel-image-optimizer"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":148,"total_views":"3700","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"ShortPixel Image Optimizer","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/shortpixel-image-optimizer\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1527\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}