How to clone site without LiteSpeed image optimization

sadly you can’t

the best approach should like this :

copy/stage the site , then go to image optm page on stage site -> destory all optimized data

I see. Please could you explain me a little better where can I find the “destory all optimized data” button? I can’t see it anywhere…

Thank-you very much for your help

please check my screenshot

Thank-you so much, I’ve destroyed all the optimized images as you suggested and I’ve deactivated LiteSpeed plugin, but I still keep to see the optimized image size in the media library, and when I download an image is the optimized one…

Is there a way to totally discard (delete) the optimized images from WordPress (and the DB) ?

that destroy action will , not sure what is your pointed , but all image optm is under LiteSpeed Optimization column

Ok, very last, I promise: where are placed the optimized images? to them have their own folder?

it’s same directory where your image is uploaded

for example you have file /wp-content/uploads/2024/02/something.jpg

then it will become like this after optm:

/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/something.jpg -> optm'ed version
/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/something.bk.jpg -> original backup
/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/something.jpg.webp -> webp version

so if you destoryed , then you will NOT see these .bk. and .webp

Indeed I still can see .bk and .webp files

shop.vanesi.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/andromeda-detail-100×100.bk.jpg

/shop.vanesi.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/andromeda-detail-100×100.jpg.webp

/shop.vanesi.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/andromeda-detail-150×150.bk.jpg

…

BUT, I’ve destroyed them and immediately afterwards I’ve disabled LiteSpeed plugin… how is it possible?

if you have a lot of images , it may take some times to finish the operation and if you disable it immediately afterwards, it probably didn’t have enough time to complete the task ?

well…

1. I’ve activated again LiteSpeed plugin, and clicked on “Destroy All Optimized Data” (in the settings I had already disabled everything)

2. I’ve waited 10 mins…

3. Disabled the LiteSpeed plugin

4. All optimized images are still there, and when I download and image from the site (right mouse button –> Save image as) some are the optimized ones, other are the original ones…

Maybe a bug??

yeah , this is weird

please create a ticket by mail to support at litespeedtech.com with reference link to this topic , we will investigate further.

Done.

Meanwhile, is there a way (simple or not) to manually revert back to the original files? I don’t think that just deleting the optimized images and rename the original ones would be enough…

actually that is precise what plugin will do , remove the optm’ed version , rename the files from something.bk.jpg to something.jpg

and of course, clean up the database reocrd about image optimization.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by qtwrk.

Well, I can manually rename/delete the files, but what about the images that have been converted to WebP? If an image in my website is pointing the the WebP file I think it will not find it anymore if I delete it, I should “tell” somehow to point to the original (.jpg) version… isn’t it?

all the webp generated by our plugin are named as something.jpg.webp with double extension , and it won’t directly point to them

the original links in the page is still something.jpg , plugin will first check browser support and webp existence , only both conditions met then it will replace the links on-the-fly