Hi There, you can use Disable Media Sizes plugin from the WordPress.org repo, full details you can find on the plugin page. If that solves the issue, kindly mark the topic as RESOLVED.
Regards,
Mohammad Arshad
The images generated there are thumbnails created by your theme or plugins for output in the frontend. This optimizes the output of your website.
Without these mostly smaller images of the original, every visitor to your website would always load the large original images. This has the following effects:
- The loading time of your page increases because each time megabytes more have to be loaded.
- Mobile devices would consume an extremely large amount of traffic with this additional data, which would be at the expense of the internet connection
- Google and other search engines would penalize your website due to the longer loading time, putting you at a disadvantage compared to your competitors
If you want to reduce the number of thumbnails, first check which component in your project requests them. WordPress specifies a few sizes, your theme may also add some, and plugins can add them as well. Use https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-thumbnail-sizes-name/, for example, to see which sizes are generated in your project.
If you think you can do without a size, check which component is responsible for it. Consider whether you will have a disadvantage in the website output if you do without the size. Then you could see if the component offers an option for this. If not, you have two options:
OMG!!! Why are there so many images? Please please tell me how to reduce it. I just need thumbnail, medium and large.
thumbnail
width => 150
height => 150
crop => TRUE
medium
width => 300
height => 300
crop => false
medium_large
width => 768
height => 0
crop => false
large
width => 1024
height => 1024
crop => false
1536x1536
width => 1536
height => 1536
crop => false
2048x2048
width => 2048
height => 2048
crop => false
woocommerce_thumbnail
width => 400
height => 400
crop => TRUE
woocommerce_single
width => 800
height => 0
crop => false
woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail
width => 200
height => 200
crop => TRUE
I have this in my template:
// WooCommerce - Add theme support
function mytheme_add_woocommerce_support() {
add_theme_support( 'woocommerce', array(
'thumbnail_image_width' => 400,
'gallery_thumbnail_image_width' => 200,
'single_image_width' => 800,
'product_grid' => array(
'default_rows' => 4,
'min_rows' => 2,
'max_rows' => 8,
'default_columns' => 4,
'min_columns' => 1,
'max_columns' => 6,
),
) );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'mytheme_add_woocommerce_support' );
I have already described ways to change the thumbnail dimensions above. Have you already tested this, and if so, with what result?
Sorry I may be misunderstanding you. I would like to remove most of the sizes that are in the list that I added above – it’s way too many and I don’t know where some of them are coming from. I can then change the sizes under Settings > Media > in WordPress.
So I guess what I would like now is to keep a few images sizes based on your reply above.
Each item that I upload is creating 9 copies of the image.
Thanks!
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This reply was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by
MyWorldz.
That’s exactly what I described to you above. Including all the possible disadvantages.
I tried code from the developer page in my functions file but that didn’t help, so I tried the Disable Media Sizes plugin but it only reduced the number of images created by 3, there are still 6 sizes are being created. I still don’t need that many. I disabled all but the media sizes.
It’s also strange because I’m not using a lot of plugins, I wish there was a way to know exactly what plugin is creating those sizes – no wonder the images were taking forever to upload. These are the sizes that are still being created:
800 x 800
400 x 400
300 x 300
200 x 200
150 x 150
Another size that I’m not sure of
Thanks!
I am totally stumped! Why is this so hard. I’ve been searching the internet and trying different things and nothing is working and I want it. Apparently the code below is used to prevent creating images but it does not work because some of the images are still been created. I also disabled the sizes under Settings > Media.
// Prevent WordPress from Generating Image Sizes
function gemini_turn_off_default_sizes ( $sizes ) {
unset($sizes['thumbnail']); // Remove thumbnail size 150 x 150
unset($sizes['medium']); // Remove medium size 300 x 300 (still created)
unset($sizes['large']); // Remove large size 1024 x 1024
unset($sizes['medium_large']); // Remove medium-large size 768 x 0
unset($sizes['100x100']); // Remove 100 x 100 (still created)
unset($sizes['600x600']); // Remove 600 x 600 (still created)
unset($sizes['1536x1536']); // Remove 2x medium-large size (still created)
unset($sizes['2048x2048']); // Remove 2x large size
return $sizes;
}
add_filter( 'intermediate_image_sizes', 'gemini_turn_off_default_sizes' );
This code works to upload only the original image, but the issue is that I would also like a thumbnail and medium size as well.
// This code enables you to upload ONLY the original image to the server.
Return false for calculated resized image dimensions
add_filter( 'image_resize_dimensions', '__return_false' );
Return an empty list of image sizes to generate on upload
add_filter( 'intermediate_image_sizes_advanced', '__return_empty_array' );
I really need to get this to work as the images are taking up too much space on the server.
Thanks!
