{"id":925,"date":"2024-05-07T11:45:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/how-to-exclude-the-images-created-by-acf-cropping-plugin-from-optimization\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:40:12","password":"","slug":"how-to-exclude-the-images-created-by-acf-cropping-plugin-from-optimization","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/how-to-exclude-the-images-created-by-acf-cropping-plugin-from-optimization\/","title":{"rendered":"How to exclude the images created by the ACF cropping plugin from optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can exclude images generated by the ACF cropping plugin (<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/acf-image-aspect-ratio-crop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Advanced Custom Fields: Image Aspect Ratio Crop Field<\/a>) by adding &#8220;_acf_cropped&#8221; as an excluded pattern under <strong>Settings > ShortPixel > Exclusions > Exclude patterns<\/strong>. Please note that you must enable <strong>Advanced Mode<\/strong> to access this setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"826\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_095539-1024x826.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_095539-1024x826.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_095539-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_095539-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_095539-360x290.jpg 360w, https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-20241201_095539.jpg 1537w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can exclude images generated by the ACF cropping plugin (Advanced Custom Fields: Image Aspect Ratio Crop Field) by adding &#8220;_acf_cropped&#8221; as an excluded pattern under Settings > ShortPixel > Exclusions > Exclude patterns. Please note that you must enable Advanced Mode to access this setting.<\/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-925","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-shortpixel-image-optimizer"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":44,"total_views":"2339","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\/925","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=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/925\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}