Title: Does it work with image optimization plugins?
Last modified: October 22, 2017

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# Does it work with image optimization plugins?

 *  Resolved [kanripress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kanripress/)
 * (@kanripress)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-work-with-image-optimization-plugins/)
 * Does Media Cloud work with shortpixel, ewww, and such image/file optimization
   plugins?
 * 1. Upload media to local wp-content
    2. Image/file optimization 3. Upload again
   to cloud storage and delete local
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 *  Plugin Author [interfacelab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/interfacelab/)
 * (@interfacelab)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-work-with-image-optimization-plugins/#post-9608751)
 * I honestly don’t know because I use Imgix on every site I build, which does the
   optimizations for you. Imgix is the primary reason I built the plugin in the 
   first place.
 * This plugin inserts itself at the end of every upload hook/filter with a priority
   of 10,000. The image optimization plugins should insert themselves before that
   to work properly. I know some of them defer processing because they use an online
   service for optimization, so they likely wouldn’t work.
 * To be perfectly honest, I doubt I will ever worry about compatibility with these
   kinds of plugins because of my religious feelings about Imgix. I am accepting
   pull requests though 🙂
 * Thanks,
 * Jon.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by [interfacelab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/interfacelab/).
 *  Plugin Author [interfacelab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/interfacelab/)
 * (@interfacelab)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-work-with-image-optimization-plugins/#post-9608831)
 * I just tested with EWWW, ShortPixel, Imagify and WP Smush.
 * WP Smush works fine.
    EWWW works too, but it made all the image file sizes a 
   bit larger than the non-optimized ones, so *shrug*.
 * Imagify and ShortPixel do not work because those are web service based. If you
   are going to use an image optimization plugin, use one that isn’t web service
   based because you are doing a lot of extraneous uploading and downloading.
 *  Thread Starter [kanripress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kanripress/)
 * (@kanripress)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-work-with-image-optimization-plugins/#post-9608839)
 * Thank you for testing with 3rd party plugins! WP Smush uses external cloud server/
   engine to optimize images as long as I remember from my past use. I’ve no idea
   why it worked like EWWW.
 * The reason behind this questions is I also have cloudflare activated, and it 
   also has imgix like optimization feature. But if imgix CDN is faster than cloudflare,
   I’d consider moving.
 * Thank you again.
 *  Plugin Author [interfacelab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/interfacelab/)
 * (@interfacelab)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-work-with-image-optimization-plugins/#post-9609035)
 * There are two versions of WP Smush (same with EWWW too). The “free” one does 
   local optimizations and “pro” one does cloud based stuff.
 * The benefit of Imgix is not only optimization but being able to add new sizes
   to your theme and just have it work without having to regenerate thumbnails. 
   I have a lot of clients that do watermarking too, and with my plugin it’s easy
   to do and the watermark can be changed in the future – again without having to
   manually regenerate anything.

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

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-work-with-image-optimization-plugins/#post-9609035)
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