Title: Exclude a Plugin
Last modified: October 1, 2021

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# Exclude a Plugin

 *  Resolved [tarmitage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tarmitage/)
 * (@tarmitage)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-a-plugin/)
 * Hi there,
 * After troubleshooting for conflict errors, I found that Autoptimize was causing
   an issue with my use of the Name Your Price plugin. I reached out to the NYP 
   folks and they noted that you can exclude certain plugins from being optimized
   by Autoptimize, but after reading through instructions I couldn’t figure out 
   how to exclude a specific plugin.
 * Any help would be appreciated!

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-a-plugin/#post-14930483)
 * you can exclude a plugin by excluding the directory it is in, e.g. `wp-content/
   plugins/autoptimize` or `wp-content/plugins/elementor`.
 * hope this helps,
    frank

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