Title: Plugin re-writes image files?
Last modified: May 20, 2017

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# Plugin re-writes image files?

 *  Resolved [Jeffrey2915](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffrey2915/)
 * (@jeffrey2915)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-re-writes-image-files/)
 * Thanks for continuing to develop and support this unique and very functional 
   plugin!
 * I’ve noticed that on a couple of websites on which I’ve used the latest version
   of WP Gallery Custom Links, the images used in these galleries are perpetually
   updated on the server whenever the gallery is viewed publicly by a site visitor.
 * For example, on this page: [http://dma4families.com/touch2play-series/](http://dma4families.com/touch2play-series/)
   
   In the lower left corner of this WP Gallery is an image named “Table-touchscreen-
   game-system.jpg”, and captioned “Touch2Play PlayTable”. That image of course 
   also has several WP thumbnail images of various sizes.
 * Whenever a visitor views this gallery page, the image mentioned above is immediately
   modified on the server (public_html > wp-content > uploads/). The same is true
   of ALL of it’s related thumbnails, AND those of ALL the other images used in 
   that gallery.
 * I have verified this by entering cPanel File Manager, noting the Last Modified
   time of a given image file, then viewing a gallery containing that image, and
   then observing the change in the Last Modified time on the server.
 * I have further confirmed this by installing WP Gallery Custom Links on another
   unrelated website on another web host, and have observed the same behavior.
 * Needless to say, this constant updating of multiple image files upon each gallery
   view consumes much bandwidth, and is causing problems with hosting resources 
   and slow page load times.
 * Can you please offer an explanation or solution?
 * Thank you!

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 *  Plugin Author [johnogg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnogg/)
 * (@johnogg)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-re-writes-image-files/#post-9156620)
 * Hi Jeffrey. This doesn’t seem like something that our plugin would do. we do 
   not make any image file saves during the display of an image. I just confirmed
   this on our wordpress instance that only has the Custom Links plugin installed–
   modified dates do not change on viewing.
 * Are you using any sort of caching plugin or image re-sizing plugin on your sites?
   Have you tried using the plugin on a ‘clean’ site? Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [Jeffrey2915](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffrey2915/)
 * (@jeffrey2915)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-re-writes-image-files/#post-9157799)
 * Thank you for your help!
 * This occurs on a site with WP caching and another site without; neither uses 
   any image re-sizing plugin other than the native WP creation of image thumbnails.
   These are both ‘legacy’ sites which have been using “WP Custom Links” for quite
   some time. When I just installed the plugin on a third site which has never used
   it, I do NOT observe this odd behavior.
 * The only other difference is that the two sites exhibiting the problem do NOT
   have the images organized into year/month folders, while the site without problems
   DOES.
 * I have tried deactivating/uninstalling/reinstalling the plugin from the two sites
   exhibiting the problem, and the odd behavior resumed. Is there a way to *completely*
   delete/reinstall the plugin?
 * Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [Jeffrey2915](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffrey2915/)
 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-re-writes-image-files/#post-9157799)
 * Status: resolved