Title: How do I exclude a plugin
Last modified: February 24, 2020

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# How do I exclude a plugin

 *  Resolved [pbriese77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbriese77/)
 * (@pbriese77)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-exclude-a-plugin/)
 * In general, your plugin works perfect and speeds up our site significantly but
   unfortunately it breaks the “essential grid” plugin from themepunch. When we 
   activate the JS optimization our product grid is not loading. We tried to exclude
   the plugin by adding this “wp-content/plugins/essential-grid/” but it had no 
   effect. Thanks for your help.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fhow-do-i-exclude-a-plugin%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, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-exclude-a-plugin/#post-12475051)
 * JS optimization/ aggregation seems to be off now, but I still see JS errors;
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/DDBonmO.jpg?ssl=1)
 * So when optimizing JS you’ll have to exclude `plugins/popup-notices-for-woocommerce/
   src/assets/dist/frontend/js/ttt-pnwc.min.js`
 * When you have done so and the gallery grid is still broken, have a look at what
   error(s) pop up on the browser console and report back here?
 *  Thread Starter [pbriese77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbriese77/)
 * (@pbriese77)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-exclude-a-plugin/#post-12475086)
 * Sorry, but after the exclusion I forgot to purge my CDN. After I purged bunnycdn
   and cloudflare everything worked just fine. Thanks for pointing out the other
   error with the popup notice plugin!
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-exclude-a-plugin/#post-12475105)
 * you’re welcome, feel free to [leave a review of the plugin and support here](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/reviews/#new-post)!
   🙂
 *  [Pablo Pacheco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karzin/)
 * (@karzin)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-exclude-a-plugin/#post-12557919)
 * Hello [@pbriese77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbriese77/) ,
    I’m the
   Popup Notices plugin author. I ended up getting here from a google result pointing
   to this thread.
 * If you want some help please let me know 😉

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 * Last reply from: [Pablo Pacheco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karzin/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-exclude-a-plugin/#post-12557919)
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