Title: Optimizing uploaded images
Last modified: March 16, 2017

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# Optimizing uploaded images

 *  Resolved [Gal Baras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galbaras/)
 * (@galbaras)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-uploaded-images/)
 * Under the plugin setting for JPG quality level, it is stated “Use this to override
   the default WordPress quality level of 82. This only applies to edited images,
   resizes, and converted PNG files. Original images are uploaded unmodified”.
 * Given that original images are by far the largest, and that optimization is meant
   to be lossless, this is a strange choice.
 * Also, the top of the page states “New images uploaded to the Media Library will
   be optimized automatically”, so which is it?
 * Are original images optimized when they are uploaded or not?
 * Are they optimized during bulk operations?
 * Are they optimized during scheduled operations?

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 *  Plugin Author [Shane Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-uploaded-images/#post-8921899)
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-please-read-this-before-posting/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-please-read-this-before-posting/)

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-uploaded-images/#post-8921899)
 * Status: resolved