Trying to reduce media items without harming the website

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  clearwaylaw · Member · Apr 7, 2022 at 5:18 pm

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  My website has 98,071 media items and it’s greatly slowing down the website. I’m hoping I can find a way to delete all the media items without deleting the pictures from the website.

  Even if I wanted to, WordPress won’t allow me to bulk delete many media items at the same time.

  The part of the website where the pictures (media items appears is http://www.clearwaylaw.com

  I’m trying to reduce the size of the photos by using WEBP files instead of JPEG’s, but it’s still not enough.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 9, 2022 at 5:31 pm

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  Hello, I’m sorry to hear that you have trouble with your website. However, your site is not hosted with WordPress.com. It is a site using the open-source WordPress software (from WordPress.org) but hosted with Siteground.

  To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities: https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/

  WordPress.org has complete documentation for self-hosted/installed versions of WordPress.org at https://wordpress.org/support/ and support at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/