Title: Does EWWW replace WP’s initial compression?
Last modified: October 29, 2025

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# Does EWWW replace WP’s initial compression?

 *  [yuliandesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yuliandesign/)
 * (@yuliandesign)
 * [7 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-ewww-replace-wps-initial-compression/)
 * Hello again,
 * My question is this: does EWWW replace the default compression that WordPress
   uses?
 * As I understand it, the logic is as follows:
    1. User -> upload image
    2. WP -> compress & resize
    3. WP -> generate thumbnails
 * Would EWWW replace steps 2 and 3? It wouldn’t make much sense to compress an 
   image that WordPress has already compressed initially, essentially a double process.
    1. User -> upload image
    2. EWWW -> compress & resize
    3. EWWW -> generate thumbnails

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 *  Plugin Support [adamewww](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamewww/)
 * (@adamewww)
 * [7 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-ewww-replace-wps-initial-compression/#post-18701525)
 * Hi [@yuliandesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yuliandesign/)
 * Yes, EWWW jumps in and takes over for the standard WordPress compression. It 
   still allows for the creation of thumbnails, but it does the optimization of 
   those and allows you to control which ones are generated or optimized (on the“
   Resizes” tab).

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