How to Stop Generating Image-sizes?

  • mrblond

    (@mrblond)


    7 years ago

    Hi,
    when uploading an image in Media Library, aside from the original file, it generates many other file-versions with variety of sizes.
    Currently in my case, it generates 24 more files from a single upload.

    How to stop generating some of these files?

    Regenerate Thumbnails plugin shows info for registered thumbnail sizes which I don’t know what are for:

    column1-1/2: 1140×570 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column1-1/3: 1140×380 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column1-1/4: 1140×285 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column1-2/5: 1140×456 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column2-1/1: 570×570 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column2-1/4: 570×142 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column2-1/2: 570×285 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column2-2/3: 570×380 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column2-3/5: 570×342 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column3-1/1: 380×380 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column3-1/3: 380×107 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column3-2/5: 380×152 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column3-2/3: 380×254 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column3-3/4: 380×285 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column4-1/1: 285×285 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column4-2/3: 285×190 pixels (cropped to fit)
    column4-3/4: 285×214 pixels (cropped to fit)

    Does somebody know why are these created and how to stop them?

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    7 years ago

    Those image sizes are probably from your theme (and there are way too many!). I would complain in their support forum, if I were you.

    I use this plugin, which is old, but written by one of the admins on ww.wp.xz.cn.
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/dynamic-image-resizer/
    It makes it so that no other image sizes are generated on upload, but when one is needed, it is generated and stored. (defers the generation of the image to when it is needed)

    Thread Starter mrblond

    (@mrblond)

    7 years ago

    Yes, it is because of the theme. I’ve changed it on my localhost, activating the wordpress Twenty Seventeen and the generated image files were reduced from 24 to 10.

    Unfortunately the dynamic-image-resizer plugin is specified not to work with multisite installation.

    Joy

    (@joyously)

    7 years ago

    Ah, I see. Did you search for other similar plugins?
    Or a piece of code to remove the extra image sizes?
    https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/reference/functions/remove_image_size/

    Thread Starter mrblond

    (@mrblond)

    7 years ago

    I’ve found this plugin:
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/image-sizes/

    I’m testing it now and I think it solves the problem well for now.

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