Multiple image sizes imported

  • Hello!
    I’m currently editing photos I’ve imported from the past 12 years of travel blogging. In my file manager, I see one photo listed in as many as 10 different sizes which take up a lot of space!!

    For example: one photo from a rice path in Bali is: a jpg; 768×1024, 430×860,430×283,260×315,184,184, and all the way up to 1289×1050. A total of 18 copies of this image in different sizes are in my upload folder.

    Last year, after getting hacked and trying to minimize the size of my site, I started using Robin Optimizer for photos. I’m unable to get help from them so hopefully, someone here can help me.

    My question: do I need multiple sizes or each photo? Or is that somehow a setting I’ve set up that I don’t need? I’ve got a couple of thousand photo’s in my media library and am wanting to slim things down.

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  • Hi, @larrycreativeguy

    do I need multiple sizes or each photo?

    That depends on your theme entirely! By default, WordPress generates the following sizes

    • Thumbnail size
    • Medium size
    • Large size

    Your theme, as it seems to be your case, generates other sizes too.

    You would have to check with your theme developer and see if all the sizes your theme generates are used. (They’ll probably say yes).

    To disable future generation of default WordPress generated sizes:

    • 1. Go to Settings > Media > Image sizes
    • 2. Set 0 for every value in there

    This is what’s safe to do, as you can always revert it back if you see that those sizes are still needed. If you feel comfortable you can look in your theme for sizes that are not used. If you find other sizes that are not used:

    In your functions.php file of your theme you may find something like
    add_image_size( 'custom-size', 220, 180 );
    where custom-size is the slug/name used for that specific size.

    To remove future generation of that size, you can comment (add \\ before) that linke of code:

    \\ add_image_size( 'custom-size', 220, 180 );

    Probably it’s best to contact your theme’s developer and ask them about this part.

    Hope this helps.
    Kind regards,
    Vlad

    Thread Starter Larrycreativeguy

    (@larrycreativeguy)

    Thank you! I’ve been chasing this for the past week! My blog is rather large, 296 GB and photo’s is the only thing I can think of that would do that. I’m using an optimizer, have heard word press makes multiple copies, and am now checking with Astra. I set the media image sizes to “0” and imported a couple photo’s.

    Even then, in file manager, those photos produced 9 different versions. I appreciate your help!

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