diff --git a/plugins/pom.xml b/plugins/pom.xml
index e91bbca70c..755436a838 100644
--- a/plugins/pom.xml
+++ b/plugins/pom.xml
@@ -57,4 +57,33 @@
     </resources>
   </build>
 
+  <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>release</id>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>sonia.maven</groupId>
+            <artifactId>web-compressor</artifactId>
+            <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <phase>compile</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>compress-directory</goal>
+                </goals>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+            <configuration>
+              <replace>true</replace>
+              <baseDirectory>${project.build.directory}/classes</baseDirectory>
+            </configuration>
+          </plugin>
+
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>
+  </profiles>
+
 </project>
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