{"id":911,"date":"2024-05-07T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/exclude-pdf-file-from-being-compressed-with-shortpixel-image-optimizer\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:40:32","password":"","slug":"exclude-pdf-file-from-being-compressed-with-shortpixel-image-optimizer","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/exclude-pdf-file-from-being-compressed-with-shortpixel-image-optimizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclude PDF files from being compressed with ShortPixel Image Optimizer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If, for some reason, you want to exclude PDF files from being optimized, you can easily do it from ShortPixel&#8217;s settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to your WordPress dashboard,\u00a0open the menu <strong>Settings > ShortPixel > Image Optimization<\/strong> and find the option &#8220;<strong>Optimize PDFs<\/strong>&#8220;. Make sure to disable it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_102406.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_102406.jpg 853w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_102406-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_102406-768x315.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_102406-360x148.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, for some reason, you want to exclude PDF files from being optimized, you can easily do it from ShortPixel&#8217;s settings. Go to your WordPress dashboard,\u00a0open the menu Settings > ShortPixel > Image Optimization and find the option &#8220;Optimize PDFs&#8220;. Make sure to disable it.<\/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-911","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-shortpixel-image-optimizer"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":44,"total_views":"1084","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\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/911\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}