How do you successfully disable all image compression and resizing?

I would like Wordpress to use the image exactly as it is uploaded. same pixel dimentions, same quality.

I have gone down the route of adding to functions.php multiple strings that change the thresholds and the quality like...

add_filter(
    'jpeg_quality',
    function() {
        return 100;
    }
);

No joy.

There are multiple threads on this topic across the net, lots of similar suggestions, none of them work/work with the recent Wordpress release.

Has anyone been able to achieve this?

Thanks

How do you successfully disable all image compression and resizing?

I would like Wordpress to use the image exactly as it is uploaded. same pixel dimentions, same quality.

I have gone down the route of adding to functions.php multiple strings that change the thresholds and the quality like...

add_filter(
    'jpeg_quality',
    function() {
        return 100;
    }
);

No joy.

There are multiple threads on this topic across the net, lots of similar suggestions, none of them work/work with the recent Wordpress release.

Has anyone been able to achieve this?

Thanks

• images
• uploads
• compression

Share Improve this question asked Jun 10, 2020 at 10:56 Joseph LionJoseph Lion 1133 bronze badges

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Turns out I was never too far off.

Adding this to your functions.php will stop all resizing and compression of images uploaded to the media folder

add_filter( 
    'big_image_size_threshold', '__return_false' );
add_filter(
    'jpeg_quality', function($arg){return 100;} );

    update_option( 'medium_size_w', 9000 );
    update_option( 'medium_size_h', 9000 );
    update_option( 'large_size_w',  9000 );
    update_option( 'large_size_h',  9000 );

Hope this helps someone

Thanks