Title: Disabling WebP Compression
Last modified: October 27, 2021

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# Disabling WebP Compression

 *  [Voodoo128](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voodoo128/)
 * (@voodoo128)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-webp-compression/)
 * I am having a problem with WordPress severely compressing my WebP files. I am
   optimizing my WebP files by converting them offline, but WordPress insists on
   compressing them even further turning them into a jumbled mess. Does anyone know
   of any code to disable WebP compression completely and use the full-sized files
   I upload instead of being forced to use the scaled images?
 * I found a code for JPEG files on wpbeginner, but that does not serve my needs
   for WebP.
 * [https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-increase-or-decrease-wordpress-jpeg-image-compression/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-increase-or-decrease-wordpress-jpeg-image-compression/)
 * Thank you in advance.
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic

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 *  [Kuldeep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soberbanda/)
 * (@soberbanda)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-webp-compression/#post-15011099)
 * Hey [@voodoo128](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voodoo128/) 🙂
 * I recommend going through this: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-wordpress-compressing-images-quality-is-terrible/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-wordpress-compressing-images-quality-is-terrible/)
 * And this: [https://www.megademic.com/how-to-stop-wordpress-compressing-jpg-images/](https://www.megademic.com/how-to-stop-wordpress-compressing-jpg-images/)
 * You can also try and use this plugin: [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/)
 * Let me know how that goes!
 *  Thread Starter [Voodoo128](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voodoo128/)
 * (@voodoo128)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-webp-compression/#post-15017254)
 * [@soberbanda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soberbanda/) Thank you for 
   your links. The first two unfortunately don’t apply to my scenario since they
   only affect JPG files and I am dealing with WEBP. However, the third link for
   WP-Retina 2X did answer one problem I was seeing with WordPress compressing the
   file and naming it scaled. I didn’t realize WordPress automatically resizes files
   over 2560. Using the information in the link provided by the Plugin Documentation,
   I was able to disable it using the Functions.php file.
 * [https://meowapps.com/wordpress-images-sizes/#The_Big_Image_Treshold](https://meowapps.com/wordpress-images-sizes/#The_Big_Image_Treshold)
 * Thank you
    -  This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by [Voodoo128](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voodoo128/).
 *  [Kuldeep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soberbanda/)
 * (@soberbanda)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-webp-compression/#post-15017314)
 * [@voodoo128](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voodoo128/) Glad it was sorted
   🙂

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 * [compression](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/compression/)
 * [webp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/webp/)

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 * Last reply from: [Kuldeep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soberbanda/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-webp-compression/#post-15017314)
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