Title: Customizer Additional CSS NOt Minifying?
Last modified: February 21, 2021

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# Customizer Additional CSS NOt Minifying?

 *  Resolved [Tory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmac187/)
 * (@tmac187)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizer-additional-css-not-minifying/)
 * The custom CSS I add to my theme via Customize > Additional CSS is displaying
   as-is in the header of my HTML. Is there any way to minify that or add it to 
   an external file in Autooptimize?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcustomizer-additional-css-not-minifying%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizer-additional-css-not-minifying/#post-14081467)
 * That’s probably because the CSS contains references to images in `wp-content/
   uploads` which by default makes that CSS excluded (because pagebuilders often
   store page-specific CSS in `wp-content/uploads` which could lead to the cache
   size getting bloated). Try removing that exclusion maybe (based on a quick look
   at your HTML I don’t think you have a pagebuilder pooring CSS in `wp-content/
   uploads` so cache size will probably not be an issue)?
 * hope this helps,
    frnak

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizer-additional-css-not-minifying/#post-14081467)
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