WordPress and Images – what is going on?

  • Hi Guys,

    My frustration levels are pretty high – im attempting to upload a large number of products using the woocommerce importer – but thats not where the problem is. For obvious reasons, product images needs to be uploaded to the media gallery before the importer happens (or remote location can be done but that wont change the outcome of the issue).

    I upload just over 2000 images worth a mere 700MB. Before the upload my space used on my web host is about 200MB – after the upload – actually the upload did not finish because i ran out of my 3TB of allocated space!!!!

    Viewed the site using a http file manager through my hosting provider and i see like 20 to 30 thumbnails and “optimised” images that somehow somewhere is being auto generated for some reason. All my images are already sized correctly and already optimized. I just want to upload 700MB of photos and it not become almost 5 times that for no reason.

    Im sure its a setting somewhere that I just cannot find and an easy fix, but please help! Im so tired of creating CSVs to import and getting 2000+ images ready, i dont need this… lol

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  • Hi @daniespreeth,

    Please take a look at this article – https://wpengine.com/resources/prevent-wordpress-image-size-generation/

    WordPress generates additional images automatically as does your theme. I also read separately that WooCommerce does the same.

    Thread Starter daniespreeth

    (@daniespreeth)

    Hello there sir!

    Thank you kindly for pointing me in the right direction. I managed to get the additional image generation from 32 (yes, thirty-two) down to 6 by following the linked article, , but thats still not ideal.

    I tried disabling ALL plug-ins – and btw it seems woocommerce does add 3 regen images too, but only if they are uploaded while woocommerce is activated. Will see what the result is by not having woocomm activated during the media upload.

    Changing the template also seemed to bring the count down (yes, i followed steps to edit functions.php too but in this case it made no difference. Is there a known template that I can try maybe that does not generate additional images?

    Any and all other suggestions will be really appreciated

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