Is there an easy way to replace photos in a blog?
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I just realized that when I batch re sized my photos, I chose the wrong file settings resulting in photos roughly 8 times larger than they need to be. This is taking up precious space quota so I want to go back and fix it.
Unfortunately, I have uploaded hundreds of photos to WordPress before I realized this happened.
I can’t figure out a fast way to fix this problem because if I have a photo named “dog444.jpg” and go in and delete it, then I re upload that photo, WordPress calls it, dog4441.jpg and now, I have to go in and manually edit all of the html for every single file name.
Is there a way to delete all of the old photos, then re upload them all with the same file names and not have WordPress stick that suffix -1 on the end. That way (keeping fingers crossed), all of my html will stay in tact and I can have a seamless transition.
Also, this may have been explained, but what is the little number that WP assigns to my photos? Sometimes I use the insert photo button and it attaches this number. However, if I write the raw html, then obviously, I don’t use this number. Is this number necessary? What does it refer to?
Thanks so much!
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Go to your dashboard => Media => Click the checkbox in the grey bar on top of the list of all your images. Then select Bulk Actions and choose delete.
That’s how you can delete them all, I can’t really help you with the other thing, sorry.
– Lora
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@navycoat, there really isn’t a way to do it painlessly here at wordpress.COM since we cannot do FTP uploads. I’m afraid that the only way is to delete the old images and then upload the new smaller ones and then go in and correct all the URL’s for the images in your posts.
I wish I had an easy solution for you, but there simply isn’t one.
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I was afraid that was going to be the answer. I’m a relative new blogger (less than a year) and am not the most technology savvy person. However, I did recently purchase a domain name for my blog but no hosting space. For now, it just redirects folks over to my antirider.wordpress.com blog.
I’ve been having so many issues with having such a photo heavy blog. It takes me hours to make a single blog with a lot of photos because of the photo insertion tool being so limited.
Do you think it’s time for me to consider buying some hosting space and migrating over wordpress.org? Is there a wordpress.org for dummies that I can follow? I currently own my domain through godaddy.com and they appear to be WordPress friendly.
Can you summarize if the benefits of hosting my own blog are worth the loss of ease in the WordPress.com templates? I like how I can just set up blogs with the templates but am getting to a place where the restrictions may outweigh the benefits.
Thank you!
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@navycoat – I think your best best is to go here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
and search for photo-related plugins. Only then can you decide whether to go for self-hosting. Easy themes abound for self-hosted blogs so that’s not a consideration.
I would suggest you shorten your front page. I tried to look at your blog but even with the fastest possible connection, I gave up before all those photos and videos loaded. Frankly, if I were on dialup I’d never re-visit that site.
Best of luck with your decision!
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There actually is a “wordpress for dummies” book and I’ve heard mixed reviews on it.
The think is that the image insertion and such will be the same with a .ORG blog as it is here. There are key differences between .COM and .ORG, but the main dashboard stuff is virtually identical. In this particular case, with replacing images though, a .ORG blog would allow you to replace the images via FTP to the “uploads” directory so it would have been relatively painless.
With .ORG blogs, you are responsible for all upgrades and installation, you are responsible for all maintenance and troubleshooting, you are responsible for backing up your blog whereas here, all that stuff is taken care of for you. It isn’t rocket science, but it does require more knowledge and more work. Some of the advantages of .ORG blogs is a much wider array of themes that you can download and use, and you are able to use plugins which can enhance and extend the abilities of wordpress.
One thing you can do to speed things up here is to go to settings > reading and decrease the number of posts that will appear on your blog’s main page to say 5. With an image/video heavy blog such as yours, that is a very good idea as it will decrease page loading times considerably.
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You can also host your photos on free sites like http://www.Flickr.com and http://Photobucket.com. The free service on Flickr automatically resizes photos to 500px horizontal, and they give each photo its own unique URL, which is frustrating. Photobucket’s free account lets you upload large photos, and each one gets its own unique URL. The advantage of hosting on Photobucket is, if you want to change a photo / banner / icon anywhere on your site you simply delete the old image from Photobucket, then upload the new one with the same name.
The other advantage is the Flickr / Photobucket type sites have decent image archival systems… something WordPress is still working on.
This doesn’t help your current problem, but maybe some future ones. If you want to test it, just upload a photo to your Photobucket account, then use the URL you’re given to replace the WordPress URL you’re using now.
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