Title: Remove Watermark for admin uploads
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Remove Watermark for admin uploads

 *  [issues](https://wordpress.org/support/users/issues/)
 * (@issues)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-watermark-for-admin-uploads/)
 * Im an stuck with a problem here and would like to see if I can get some help.
   I am using WC-Vendors Pro plugin and need to watermark all of my woocommerce 
   images ( product images only ). Things are working now for this part after a 
   few tweaks and playing with settings. WC-Vendors pro uses a front end upload 
   with the WP media library. I have now run into a major hiccup. I need to be able
   to removed any watermarking from ADMIN/the back-end. As it sits now, when logged
   in to admin, all images I upload get watermarked, so I cannot upload site images.
   Any help would be much appreciated.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-watermark/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-watermark/)

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 *  Plugin Author [dFactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfactory/)
 * (@dfactory)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-watermark-for-admin-uploads/#post-7478313)
 * You may trying doing that with a filter, for example, assuming that frontend 
   upload is not using AJAX:
 *     ```
       if ( is_admin() ) {
       	remove_filter( 'wp_generate_attachment_metadata', array( 'Image_Watermark', 'apply_watermark' ), 10 )
       }
       ```
   
 * This should disable watermarking on the admin side.
 * Regards,
    Bartosz / dfactory team
 *  Thread Starter [issues](https://wordpress.org/support/users/issues/)
 * (@issues)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-watermark-for-admin-uploads/#post-7478324)
 * Thanks for the reply, unfortunately that did not work 🙁
 *  Plugin Author [dFactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfactory/)
 * (@dfactory)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-watermark-for-admin-uploads/#post-7478326)
 * Ok, try this way:
 *     ```
       if ( is_admin() ) {
       	remove_filter( 'wp_handle_upload', array( 'Image_Watermark', 'handle_upload_files' ) );
       }
       ```
   
 * You paste this into functions.php of your theme, right?
 *  Thread Starter [issues](https://wordpress.org/support/users/issues/)
 * (@issues)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-watermark-for-admin-uploads/#post-7478327)
 * Sorry, but that too did not work.. I still get admin uploads with a watermark.
   🙁 If you have any ideas, please let me know. I need to get to work now but will
   be back tonight. Thanks for your help.
 *  Plugin Author [dFactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfactory/)
 * (@dfactory)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-watermark-for-admin-uploads/#post-7478402)
 * Ok, dirty solution for now – comment this line (332) in image-watermark.php plugin
   file:
 * `add_filter( 'wp_generate_attachment_metadata', array( $this, 'apply_watermark'),
   10, 2 );`
 *  Thread Starter [issues](https://wordpress.org/support/users/issues/)
 * (@issues)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-watermark-for-admin-uploads/#post-7478414)
 * And that causes a script error,, I guess this plugin is just not right for me..
   thanks for trying.

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