Smush Pro and WP Engine working together?

I just subscribed to smush pro since it's a recommended image compression for WPEngine based Wordpress installs. How do I activate the pro plugin inside WP Engine?



  • Patrick

    Hi there @Walter

    Welcome to WPMU DEV, glad to have you aboard!

    First, please ensure that you have deactivated & deleted the free version you may previously installed from

    If you did not have the free version installed, ignore the above. :slight_smile:

    Once you have uploaded WP Smush Pro to your site, simply activate it as you would any other WordPress plugin.

    However, as you are WP-Engine, you may need to tweak a few things to get stuff working correctly. In your WP-Engine settings, please disable both CDN & Object Caching.

    You may also need to whitelist the WP Smush Pro server IP. You would likely need to get WP-Engine support to do that for you, as I don't think they allow you to do that on your own. The IP to whitelist is:

    Please let us know if this helps, and don't hesitate to post again if you need more help with this.

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