# Keep Some Images Off Jetpack's Image CDN

> Serves images from your own server instead of Jetpack's Site Accelerator CDN when their URL contains a pattern you choose, for example SVGs, signed URLs or a specific folder.

- Type: PHP
- Runs: Run everywhere
- Category: [Plugin Integrations](https://wpide.com/library/category/integrations/)
- Tags: jetpack, cdn, images
- Author: WPIDE Team
- Installs: 0
- Updated: 2026-10-28
- Page: https://wpide.com/library/jetpack-photon-skip-images/

## Code

```php
$wpide_patterns = array( '.svg', '/private-uploads/', 'X-Amz-Signature' ); // URL fragments to skip.

add_filter( 'jetpack_photon_skip_image', function ( $skip, $src ) use ( $wpide_patterns ) {
    foreach ( $wpide_patterns as $pattern ) {
        if ( false !== stripos( (string) $src, $pattern ) ) {
            return true;
        }
    }

    return $skip;
}, 10, 2 );
```

## Notes

Patterns are matched against the image URL as plain text.

## How to use it

Install the free WPIDE plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpide/), find "Keep Some Images Off Jetpack's Image CDN" in its snippet library and add it in one click; or create a new PHP snippet in WPIDE (or any code snippets plugin) and paste the code above. More snippets: https://wpide.com/library/