{"id":914,"date":"2024-05-07T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/how-can-i-make-sure-shortpixel-plugin-doesnt-automatically-optimize-images\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:40:26","password":"","slug":"how-can-i-make-sure-shortpixel-plugin-doesnt-automatically-optimize-images","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/how-can-i-make-sure-shortpixel-plugin-doesnt-automatically-optimize-images\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I make sure that ShortPixel will not automatically optimize my images?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you <strong>don&#8217;t <\/strong>want to have the images automatically optimized by <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/shortpixel-image-optimiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ShortPixel Image Optimizer<\/a> upon upload, follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Login to your WordPress dashboard<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to <strong>Settings > ShortPixel<\/strong><br><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/file-q30AuZd8i1.png\"><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enable the <strong>Advanced Mode<\/strong><br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" class=\"wp-image-1420\" style=\"width: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_101837.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_101837.jpg 546w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_101837-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_101837-360x339.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make sure the option &#8220;Optimize media on upload&#8221; is <strong>not<\/strong> active.<br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-1421\" style=\"width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_102013.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_102013.jpg 882w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_102013-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_102013-768x231.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_102013-360x108.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t want to have the images automatically optimized by ShortPixel Image Optimizer upon upload, follow these steps:<\/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-914","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-shortpixel-image-optimizer"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":43,"total_views":"1066","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\/914","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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/914\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}