I receive a lot of interesting questions about the Photon module in Jetpack. Occasionally, users would like to disable Photon for certain requests, such as when a plugin or theme calls one of WordPress’s image functions (wp_get_attachment_image(), wp_get_attachment_image_src(), or anything else that ultimately calls image_downsize()).
While the Photon module does include filters to disable it for each individual image requested (see here and here), there are situations where one may wish to disable Photon regardless of the image being requested, such as when a certain widget retrieves an image from WordPress’s media library.
Doing so is relatively simple, but a bit obfuscated because the Photon module is written as a PHP class. The snippet below demonstrates how to do so, and is made possible because the Photon module is implemented as a singleton.
$photon_removed = remove_filter( 'image_downsize', array( Jetpack_Photon::instance(), 'filter_image_downsize' ) );
// Call wp_get_attachment_image(), wp_get_attachment_image_src(), or anything else that ultimately calls image_downsize()
if ( $photon_removed ) {
add_filter( 'image_downsize', array( Jetpack_Photon::instance(), 'filter_image_downsize' ), 10, 3 );
}The code on line 1 should appear immediately before the function call that shouldn’t have Photon applied, and lines 5 and 6 should appear immediately afterwards to ensure that Photon is available for any subsequent calls to image functions.
Grab the snippet from https://git.ethitter.com/snippets/1.
Aside – if you’re curious about using singletons in WordPress, check out Eric Mann’s post on the subject: The Case for Singletons in WordPress.