Title: Delete Posts & Attachments Using Specific Time
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Delete Posts & Attachments Using Specific Time

 *  [physlab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/physlab/)
 * (@physlab)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-posts-attachments-using-specific-time/)
 * I would like to see a feature incorporated within WordPress where a user could
   specify a number of days a blog post will exist before being deleted. In addition
   to deleting the text, I would also like the feature to clean out any photographs
   or screen shots associated with the post.
 * Many bloggers are faced with size limitations on hosting sites and this would
   be a way to control the size of the blog. It is important to have such a feature
   clean up associated photographs and other attachments that end up in the “uploads”
   folder. Deleting just the text is insufficient.
 * If any Plugin exists, please let me know. I’ve not found any that will clean 
   up the “uploads” folder as requested above.
 * Physlab

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-posts-attachments-using-specific-time/#post-2325123)
 * > Many bloggers are faced with size limitations on hosting sites and this would
   > be a way to control the size of the blog. It is important to have such a feature
   > clean up associated photographs and other attachments that end up in the “uploads”
   > folder. Deleting just the text is insufficient.
 * Sounds more like you need a better host and more space. Deleting content means
   it’s gone, which means there was no point in having it up there. The concept 
   is that you post and keep it up online for people to read. Removing content looses
   readers.
 *  Thread Starter [physlab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/physlab/)
 * (@physlab)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-posts-attachments-using-specific-time/#post-2325138)
 * The hosting site is great. I found that uploading Screen Shots and/or photographs
   does not result in one image per upload. Rather, WordPress picks up multiple 
   images in case one wishes to use different sizes in a blog post. These “shard”
   images begin to fill up storage space while serving no purpose.
 * I would like full control over what uploads rather than WordPress making those
   decisions for me.
 * Physlab
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-posts-attachments-using-specific-time/#post-2325140)
 * You can change the default sizes. But yes, you get a thumbnail, a medium and 
   a large size (and a ‘full’ if full is bigger than large). If you make the ‘large’
   the size of the largest image you upload, you only get three images.
 * The thumb and medium images are pretty small, and shouldn’t be causing you to
   run over diskspace (which is pretty cheap these days).
 *  [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/)
 * (@fonglh)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-posts-attachments-using-specific-time/#post-2325154)
 * These “shard” images are for display on your site when different sizes are needed.
   Using the minimum required size decreases load times and thus the user experience,
   plus it also improves your ranking because Google takes load speeds into account.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-posts-attachments-using-specific-time/#post-2325154)
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