Title: Force Optimize Thumbnails
Last modified: December 12, 2016

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# Force Optimize Thumbnails

 *  [hussong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hussong/)
 * (@hussong)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-optimize-thumbnails/)
 * I have a couple sites that were previously using TinyJPG’s “Compress JPEG & PNG
   images” [1] set to only optimize the upload and not the thumbnails (not the best
   idea, I know, but it is what it is now).
 * I would like to switch these sites over to Imagify. However, it won’t optimize
   the thumbs on previously optimized uploads. Seems like it looks at the upload
   file, sees that it’s already optimized and stops right there (not optimizing 
   the thumbs).
 * Running “Regenerate Thumbs” [2] doesn’t seem to trigger any optimization either.
   Naturally, re-uploading all those images is not feasible.
 * Is there a way to “force re-optimize” all images, including their thumbs, and
   regardless of the upload size / optimization status?
 * [1] [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tiny-compress-images/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tiny-compress-images/)
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   2] [https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/)

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