Photos carry data you cannot see: GPS coordinates, the serial number of the phone or camera, the owner's name, the date and time, the edit history, sometimes a small copy of the uncropped photo or the video of a \"motion photo\". Anyone who downloads an image from your site can read it.<\/p>\n\n
Built for newsrooms that protect their sources. Red Jaguar Newsroom Privacy & Optimizer removes that data from every image you upload, and helps you find and clean the images already in your media library. It is useful for any site that publishes photos.<\/p>\n\n
Everything happens on your own server.<\/strong> No image is ever sent to an external service. There is no account, no API key, no tracking. It is free, forever, updates included.<\/p>\n\n A review reads every image already uploaded (the published copy, the original, each size and the backups WordPress keeps when an image is edited) and shows, in plain language, what it found: images that reveal where they were taken, serial numbers, owners' names, hidden thumbnails, kept originals. One button cleans them; another, with an explicit confirmation, deletes the originals. On large libraries, any of these tasks can run in the background with WordPress's scheduled tasks, so you can close the screen and come back later. A \"Privacy\" column in the media library shows the state of each image.<\/p>\n\n The plugin is about privacy first. Optimization is optional and runs on the same images.<\/p>\n\n No. Every image is processed on your own server, with PHP. The plugin makes no request to any external service.<\/p><\/dd>\n Removing hidden data does not recompress the picture. Publishing photos as WebP or AVIF does, like every size WordPress makes: at the default quality (82) the difference is not visible in news photos, and you can raise it in Settings or keep the original format. A photo stored rotated by the phone is straightened and saved again at high quality.<\/p><\/dd>\n Not automatically. Open Red Jaguar Newsroom \u2192 Overview, review the media library, and clean the images it lists.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Without the original, WordPress cannot make sizes larger than the published copy later. That is why originals of images already uploaded are only deleted when you confirm it.<\/p><\/dd>\n JPEG, PNG and WebP. HEIC, AVIF and GIF are not cleaned yet; the review lists them.<\/p><\/dd>\n It works without it, but the overview warns you: without HTTPS, the photo travels unencrypted from the reporter's computer to your server, with all its hidden data, before the plugin can clean it.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\nWhat it protects<\/h4>\n\n
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PXL_20261028_091500.jpg<\/code> or WhatsApp Image\u2026<\/code> reveal the device, the exact time or how the photo arrived. They are replaced, in the file, the title and the address of the attachment page, by the title of the article the photo is uploaded to (march-in-the-main-square.jpg<\/code>, better for image search), or by a neutral name for confidential stories.<\/li>\nYour media library<\/h4>\n\n
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A side benefit: lighter images<\/h4>\n\n
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wp pmpo audit<\/code> reviews every image and lists what it found. It changes nothing.<\/li>\nwp pmpo clean<\/code> removes the hidden data of every image that has it.<\/li>\nwp pmpo delete-originals<\/code> deletes the full-size originals. This cannot be undone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Does it send my images anywhere?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will my images lose quality?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Are images I uploaded before cleaned?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I undo deleting the originals?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Which formats are cleaned?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it need HTTPS?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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