{"id":827,"date":"2024-05-07T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/exclude-an-image-from-being-optimized-when-using-autoptimize\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:42:19","password":"","slug":"exclude-an-image-from-being-optimized-when-using-autoptimize","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/exclude-an-image-from-being-optimized-when-using-autoptimize\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclude an image from being optimized when using Autoptimize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetwopercent.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener\">Autoptimize<\/a> includes an image optimization feature, using ShortPixel&#8217;s services. If, for whatever reason, you&#8217;d like to exclude one or more images from being optimized by Autoptimize, you can do so by following these instructions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to Settings &gt; Autoptimize &gt; Images<\/li>\n<li>Add the images or image classes to the Optimization exclusions field. Easy!\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/file-IbjlUiFA3y.jpg\"><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autoptimize includes an image optimization feature, using ShortPixel&#8217;s services. If, for whatever reason, you&#8217;d like to exclude one or more images from being optimized by Autoptimize, you can do so by following these instructions: Go to Settings &gt; Autoptimize &gt; Images Add the images or image classes to the Optimization exclusions field. Easy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[36],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-827","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-autoptimize"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":52,"total_views":"4195","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":"Autoptimize","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/autoptimize\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/827","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=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/827\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}