Title: Exclude Elementor section/widget from optimization
Last modified: January 18, 2020

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# Exclude Elementor section/widget from optimization

 *  Resolved [christiaantjahhh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christiaantjahhh/)
 * (@christiaantjahhh)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-elementor-section-widget-from-optimization/)
 * Hi, I was wondering if it’s possible to exclude a specific Elementor element 
   from optimization. In my case, this would be the smart listing grid, since it’s
   not functioning properly and gets a different compared to the other elements 
   on the page with te same settings when autoptimize is turned on.
 * Would I perhaps have to give the section a css class? I’m not really that familiar
   with coding ;p
 * Thanks in advance!
 * Christiaan
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [christiaantjahhh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christiaantjahhh/).
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 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fexclude-elementor-section-widget-from-optimization%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)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-elementor-section-widget-from-optimization/#post-12339748)
 * No Christiaan, you’ll have to exclude the Elementor JS (or CSS) associated with
   that element. First test if the problem goes away when disabling just CSS or 
   just JS or just HTML or just Image opt (incl. lazyload), based on that we can
   decide what the next step would be.
 * frank
 *  Thread Starter [christiaantjahhh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christiaantjahhh/)
 * (@christiaantjahhh)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-elementor-section-widget-from-optimization/#post-12339763)
 * Thanks for your quick response Frank! I just figured out the problem (and some
   others) seems to away when disabling the inline all CSS option. This, however,
   does seem to decrease the site’s speed exponentially.
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-elementor-section-widget-from-optimization/#post-12339789)
 * “inline all CSS” is seldom a good setting to be honest, in that case you might
   want to look into “inline & defer CSS” instead (more info in [the AO FAQ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/#faq)).
 * groeten uit België,
    frank
 *  Thread Starter [christiaantjahhh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christiaantjahhh/)
 * (@christiaantjahhh)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-elementor-section-widget-from-optimization/#post-12339803)
 * Bedankt voor de alweer snelle reactie. Ik ga er naar kijken. Nog een fijne avond
   Frank en de groeten uit Nederland!
 * Je bent een held. 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-elementor-section-widget-from-optimization/#post-12339807)
 * Graag gedaan, feel free to [leave a review of the plugin and support here](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/reviews/#new-post)!
   🙂
 * fijne avond/ zondag nog!
    frank

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-elementor-section-widget-from-optimization/#post-12339807)
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