Title: Compression setting
Last modified: September 22, 2025

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# Compression setting

 *  Resolved [JoelDenne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeldenne/)
 * (@joeldenne)
 * [8 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-setting-2/)
 * I’m trying to change the amount images get compressed when using this plugin,
   but the filter does not seem to be working – is there something in the plugin
   that needs changing?
   Sorry for the vague question – here is what I’ve tried, 
   then deleting the cached images so it regenerates.Thanks
 * // 1) Force Imagick first (fallback to GD if Imagick isn’t available)
   add_filter(‘
   wp_image_editors’, function( $editors ) {return [ ‘WP_Image_Editor_Imagick’, ‘
   WP_Image_Editor_GD’ ];}, 10, 1 );
 * // 2) Set quality for all formats, including PNG
   add_filter( ‘wp_editor_set_quality’,
   function( $quality, $mime_type, $dims = null ) {if ( $mime_type !== ‘image/png’
   || empty( $dims[‘width’] ) ) {return $quality;}return 95;}, 10, 3 );

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 *  Plugin Author [kubiq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubiq/)
 * (@kubiq)
 * [8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-setting-2/#post-18654157)
 * Hello,
 * yes, this plugin uses default `wp_get_image_editor` function without any hard-
   coded arguments, so you should be able to use default WP filter and action hooks
   to control how WP generates images, but this will affect whole WP and not only
   this plugin of course.

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