pictures space
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Hi, I am currently using the Auto Focus theme for my blog. It is a free one. As mine is a culinary blog, I am uploading many pictures and it seems that I have utilized 68% of the space available. What will happen once I have used 100% of the space available? Will I have to pay for more space? How does it work?
Also, I am a follower of the following blog: https://teresalamaltesa.wordpress.com/ and I used to be able to see all the posts. Recently it became protected and I don’t have access any longer. What is the purpose of having a beautiful blog if one selected people can see it? I have requested access multiple times but I am still unable to see it. What do I do?
I hope you can help me. You can reply to me on (email visible only to moderators and staff)
Thanks so much!
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The best way to free up space is to decrease the size of your images before you upload them. This will maximize the amount of space you have because large images can add up fast. For more information on that see this link:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/
Since you are 68% full, you may have to go back in later and lower the size of the old images as well. But you should be able to last a lot longer with smaller images being uploaded. If you use 100% of the space you will not be able to upload any new media to the library.
There are other options such as upgrading to Premium or Business which give you access to more space. The link below gives more details on increasing space and other alternatives. Towards the bottom of the page, Flickr is given as one of the routes you can take if you want to host your pictures externally. I believe they give you 1 terabyte of space for free.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/space-upgrade/
And as far as your second inquiry regarding a protected site. There’s nothing you can really do to gain access to a private site if the owner of the site doesn’t want anyone to view it. If you’ve already requested access multiple times, hopefully they will open it up again and take notice that people are interested in the content they produce.
Hope this helps!
PS Your recipes look delicious! I’m in SD and blog about food too. :)
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Thanks so much!!! This really helps. I am thinking about upgrading, ultimately it will be worth it because I want to cont to blog:) what’s your blog? I want to check it out! Laura
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I looked at your latest Post – the food picture when clicked on loaded a 3.6mb 4,000 px wide image – my screen is only 1680 wide and the browser less – so I you are wasting much space and have a picture that is useless for a visitor and makes your site slow loading – search engines downgrade sites for slow loading
If you must load large pictures – look at the max image size supported and don’t go over that and also compress the pictures when they are resized – I like to stay under 100k in size but sometimes things get larger – but then my site is different than yours
See the link above on optimizing your pictures – you can shrink the file size and not really loose much if any quality
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I believe these will help you:
https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/cropper-or-proper-image-preparation/
https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/ten-free-online-image-compression-and-optimzation-programs/You can optimize and re-size it using either free desktop image editing software found at the link posted above by dmcwong or by using free online image editing software to fit the space you intend to use it in.
Note this as well so you know that deleting images from your media library is not a good idea and why that is https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/omg-my-images-are-gone/comment-page-1/
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You’re welcome and know that when you op[optimize and pre-size images prior to uploading them you are not only reducing the free media storage space use on your blog, you are also getting the best image quality as well. Staff member thesacredpath has published a post which is on topic and useful:
https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/image-editing-and-preparation-tips-part-1/ -
Glad we could help! People here on the forums are super helpful and I’m learning so much from them.
I don’t blog about cooking as much and eat out more than I should. :) You can find me at http://www.sandiegofood.net.
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Sorry to bother again…I am definitely not very computer and blog savvy (but I am doing my best to learn). I was having a look at the list of my followers and I see that there are 17, which are also the # of notifications I received via email. However, if I log off my blog and try to start following it as an outsider, I see a message that says that there are over 900 people following me. What is the difference?
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Are you using the Publicize feature? If you are that also counts Facebook friends and Twitter followers. That might be the reason for the discrepancy. If the numbers match up that looks like why you are seeing different numbers.
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