Too many thumbnail sizes

This is also a problem for me but for another reason. We use responsive images and this plugin generates odd cropped images that are showing up in our srcset.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by greenzilla. Reason: Removed unnecessary snark about Apple

This will remove the registered image sizes created by the plugin. Be aware, it may cause issues with what is generated for Apple News. However, I am still seeing images in Apple News using this bit of code.

function wp_loaded_callback(){
	global $_wp_additional_image_sizes;
	foreach($_wp_additional_image_sizes as $k => $v){
		if(stristr($k, 'apple_news'))
			remove_image_size($k);
	}
}
add_action('wp_loaded', 'wp_loaded_callback');

What kind of issue are you seeing using this bit of code?

@sebastienpage

we manage a large site with a very large image library (well over 60,000).

If you are not already, we upload images into year/month/day directories. We upload about 50k images a year. This directory structure helped a bit. It did cause issues with xmlrpc uploads though and I don’t remember what the actual issue or fix was.

function upload_dir_filter($uploads){
	$day = date('d');
	$uploads['path']	.= '/' . $day;
	$uploads['url']		.= '/' . $day;
	$uploads['subdir']	.= '/' . $day;
	return $uploads;
}
add_filter('upload_dir', 'upload_dir_filter');

@sebastienpage

What kind of issue are you seeing using this bit of code?

I’m not actually seeing any issues. Images are showing up in Apple News. I know the plugin is using an array of images sizes to do things and that array still exists with this code in place; the image sizes are simply just not registered in Wordpess with this bit of code. So, CHEERS TO THE DEVELOPER for writing clean code that we could actually adjust functionality with an action! Just keep in mind to remove this with any updates ??

We’ve got a GitHub issue that we’re using to track progress against this here: https://github.com/alleyinteractive/apple-news/issues/339

I’m going to close this issue in favor of keeping discussion around the feature in GitHub.

Our overall approach here is going to be to have users turn on Cover Art support, which will generate the additional image crops. I’ll also leave a note about srcset issues.