Title: image optimizer requires exec() error message
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# image optimizer requires exec() error message

 *  Resolved [nyssaskitchen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nyssaskitchen/)
 * (@nyssaskitchen)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimizer-requires-exec-error-message/)
 * hi! I just installed the plug in and I’m eager to try it out, but I receive this
   error message when I open it. do you know how I can fix this? thanks!
 * “EWWW Image Optimizer requires exec(). Your system administrator has disabled
   this function.”
 * [http://www.nyssaskitchen.com](http://www.nyssaskitchen.com)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [nosilver4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimizer-requires-exec-error-message/#post-6424195)
 * If you are the system administrator (not to be confused with the WordPress admin),
   remove ‘exec’ from the disable_functions setting in your php.ini. Otherwise, 
   if that is your webhost, ask them if they would consider enabling exec().
 * If neither of those works, there is a list of known-working webhosts here: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/installation/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/installation/)
 * And if you don’t want to switch webhosts, there is the EWWW IO API which will
   offload the processing to another server: [https://ewww.io](https://ewww.io)

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 * [exec](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/exec/)
 * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/)

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 * Last reply from: [nosilver4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimizer-requires-exec-error-message/#post-6424195)
 * Status: resolved