Too Many Versions of Images Taking Up Space

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    jantpharmacal · Member ·

    Hello. I had a plugin which created ~23 versions of each uploaded image.

    Now, I have ~500 pictures, and each one has 23 versions of it, and therefore I have ~11,000 images total.

    Some of the versions are: thumbnail, medium, large, blog-medium, blog-large, portfolio-full, portfolio-one, recent-posts, etc…

    Each of those are cropped to different sizes.

    What is the best way to get rid of the unused images?

    And I know about filtering by”unattached” media. This doesn’t work, because the system only thinks some are “unattached” because they weren’t directly uploaded to a page or post. The images which have been uploaded to the media library, and then later “attached” to a post or page still show up as “unattached” (even though they are used somewhere).

    In addition, when I look at my media library, I see only one image (and a description that lets me know there are 23 other versions of it).

    When I check my Cpanel database, I see all the versions of the images.

    Please help. These images are taking up too much space and it’s difficult to sift through them manually, because there are ~11,000 of them.

    Thanks in advance!

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    shwetharmaiya · Member ·

    Hi,

    Please let us know the website URL to help you.

    Regards
    Shwetha

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Please contact support for the plugin you’re using directly for help with this – all WordPress plugins are created by private individuals or companies, and only the people who make a particular plugin has control over how that plugin works.

    General support for the open source WordPress software you’re using is provided by the WordPress.org community, who makes that software, in their forums at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

    The forum you posted to here is for WordPress.com, a specific hosting provider for that software, and as your site isn’t hosted on our servers, we don’t have any control over how it works.


    @shwetharmaiya    ,

    You don’t need a site URL to be able to give a helpful reply in this case. There is plenty of evidence in the OPs question that confirms they have a self-hosted WordPress site, more than enough for us to be able to point them to the correct place to get help with their issue. The only additional info we’ll gain from a URL is who their domain registrar and hosting provider is, and as this is neither a domain nor a hosting-related issue, that wouldn’t add any value here :)

  • Unknown's avatar
    shwetharmaiya · Member ·

    Hi @kokkieh,

    Thank you for pointing me in right direction.

    I did see cPanel.

    Regards
    Shwetha

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