How do I add 10GB storage to my existing 13GB?
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The title says it all. I have 13GB nearly all used. How do I add another 10GB? WP used to have the option, I think, of adding 25/50GB or more but I can’t find it. I don’t need the Business Plan and I can’t tell if Premium will add to my existing storage or still only give me 13GB total. Is there a way to just add another chunk of storage? I’m sure there are many long time WP users like myself who are filling their storage. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Aloha fairplay740, The option to add more storage without a plan is no longer available. The Premium plan will give you a total of 13 GB of storage and the Business plan will give you unlimited storage.
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Ouch. There are so many reasons I can think of that this is a bad business model on the part of WordPress that I’m not even going to start. I can think of and have read of several work-arounds which I may try. Otherwise I can take my blogging elsewhere or quit blogging. My blog readership is small and it’s definitely not worth $299/year ($2999 for 10 years). I don’t expect WP for free but there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. I’ve been on WP for 8 years now. Unfortunate.
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Looking at your site I see you are uploading large .png images, many over 1MB each in size. That is why you are running out of space so quickly. .jpg images are usually ten times smaller in file size for a similar looking image as far as an average internet browser is concerned. You could look at optimizing images before uploading them. Even .pngs can be reduced in file size, https://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/
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@themagicrobot: Thanks for the tip. I will look into that. I do like hi-res photos, and even within my 13GB my media library contains a generous number of pix. I’m guessing removing and re-adding smaller photos will mess up the blog post links, but I’ll have a look.
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Hello there, Hi-res photos are great when you are going to print them, but not so great for websites.
If you look at the bottom of the Twenty Ten theme showcase page, you ‘ll see the recommended image sizes for the theme: https://wordpress.com/theme/twentyten/ Any image larger than that is being dynamically resized to suit those dimensions which can cause a loading lag for your visitors. If you still want to keep larger images for display in Galleries (and what lovely views!) 1600 pixels at the widest is a good size to aim for.
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Will scaling reduce the image size on WP? Is there any other way to resize or do I have to delete an image and re-add a smaller version? (Thanks for all the responses so far BTW.)
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I don’t suggest using the in-program editing tools as that will actually increase your storage usage because the original image is still there in case you want to revert.
The better way is to download your images if you don’t have them on your computer and then bulk resize them in an offline image editing program, then upload those images and replace the existing ones.
The link that @themagicrobot gave you has a list of free image editing programs at the bottom.
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@justjennifer: Thank you. Good advice on that scaling. How do I retain the existing blog post links if I resize everything outside of WP?
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That’s the slog, I’m afraid. Once you’ve resized the images, you’ll need to upload and reinsert them in each and every post.
Before you head off and do this, let’s wait to hear from Staff.
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OK. Thanks. I’ll do some investigating too. No rush and I don’t expect everyone to do it for me, but advice is always welcome.
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Hi there,
I don’t really have anything to add to what you’ve already been told in this thread. Just regarding your last question: How do I retain the existing blog post links if I resize everything outside of WP?
You’ll need to edit posts one at a time, upload an optimized image in place of the existing one, and then delete the larger image from the media library. I’ve done this, and can tell you it’s not a fun process, but it’s the only way to free up space in the media library without deleting images completely.
Another option you can consider is hotlinking images. If you upload your images to services like Flickr or Google Photos, you can embed them from there instead of from the media library. To do that, first upload the image to the other service, and make sure it’s public. Then get the sharing link.
On your site, edit/create a post in the WP-Admin editor. Click the Add Media button, select the Add via URL option, and paste in the image link. Note that you’ll see the Add via URL option in the My Sites editor as well, but in that editor it will attempt to upload the image, rather than hotlinking it.
With Flickr specifically you can also hotlink the image by simply pasting the image link directly into the post, without using the Add Media button.
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@kokkieh: Thanks for the info. I did a bit of cleanup and still have nearly 2GB free. I’m going to try the hotlink method, with smaller photos too. I will continue to load to WP perhaps, with much smaller photos. If I’d paid attention when the plans changed I would have altered my habits sooner. I do love the hi-res photos I see others post but the Business plan is more than I want to spend for my mundane efforts. Thanks again for your assistance.
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I understand your preference for hi-res photos, but on the web it’s really a waste – websites can only display photos at a certain size, predetermined by the theme, and as @justjennifer mentioned above, using images bigger than that just wastes storage, bandwidth and processing power on your site and causes your site to load more slowly for visitors. Even if you have the storage space, I still won’t advise using hi-res photos due to their impact on the other two factors.
If you want people to be able to view the images at full resolution so they can zoom in to maximum, perhaps consider uploading them to a file sharing service like Dropbox instead, and add a download link to the images on your site. That way people can download and view the original image on their computers, where it will be easier to zoom in and manipulate the image than on a web browser in any case.
Just another option I forgot to mention is Cloudup.com. It’s free to use, and you can upload up to 1000 images for free, with no file size limits, and you can embed from Cloudup to your WordPress.com site as well.
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