Used almost all my 3Gig…what's my options
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I am totally novice blogger…a grannie blogging my trip to Alaska. Almost completed, but I am getting notices that I have almost used all my free space. As you can imagine, I don’t want to pay a yearly fee forever to preserve the blog. What’s my options here?? Probably will not continue blogging, at least not $XX month. Help!
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I agree. In the age where people are giving Terabytes for free, the fact that WordPress is still on 3GBs (or at least won’t allow ways of off-shoring the image content and rendering it on WordPress) is really depressing.
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Hi there!
Yeah, only having 3GB kind of stinks. One thing you might consider, is making your images smaller file sizes. Each of your photos are an average of 1MB in size.
It would take some time, but if you open each of those jpegs in http://www.pixlr.com and save it right away, it would drastically reduce the file size of each picture. Then delete the photos on your blog and re upload the new reduced size versions.
The reason this works, is because pixlr automatically saves jpgs at 80% quality. That 20% reduction in quality actually ends up being over 50% reduction in file size. The difference in quality isn’t noticeable on a computer. It would potentially reduce quality of a printed photo, so make sure you keep a copy of all your originals in case you want to print them at full quality in the future.
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I upload all my photos to Flickr, then use their embed coding to place in my blog posts. I’ve been here 8 years and have used only 1% of the free space.
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And proving that YMMV, I’ve been here for 8 (nearly 9) years and have uploaded my images on my photography site almost exclusively to my WPcom Media Library and have barely scratched 5% of my free 3GB. It’s because I religiously resize and optimize my images before uploading.
@hjlayman Some of the images I looked at on your website were 5MB and 6000 pixels wide, which is great if you are looking to have people download and print your images, but way too big for website display. Try aiming for around 1280 pixels at your largest dimension (height or width) and if your camera is shooting at 180ppi, downsize to 72ppi for web display.
I know this doesn’t help for the images you’ve already uploaded. If you want to keep uploading images directly to your WPcom website the only options you have are to replace existing images with smaller versions or spring for the upgrade.
If you are creating this site as only a one time thing as a record of your journey, you don’t have to pay more than a year’s worth of upgrade because at the end of that year, you simply won’t be able to upload any more photos. The existing ones will continue to display.
Yes, flickr is OK, but the flickr Terms of Service require you to link back to your photo on flickr and you cannot use flickr images as a Featured image or use those images in the Gallery feature. Images in those features have to be uploaded to WPcom to work.
Let us know if you need more help with any of that.
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I’ve never used the Gallery feature and any Featured images for the blog Pages (not posts) are from my computer.
Flickr resizes all the images for you, so it’s rather easy to manage. I was on Flickr before coming to WP, so it made good sense to use my Flickr photos here. There is a great community of people on Flickr, too. The downside is that Yahoo bought it out, so you have to have a Yahoo account. But it’s free.
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Oh, when you grab the coding from the Flickr photo, then paste it in your blog wherever you’d like it to be, it automatically links to the Flickr photo as per their requirements on using the photos. I use a lot of their Creative Commons photos for my blog posts as well as my own photography. They recently changed the coding so WP users do need to remove the last line that starts with “script”, as scripts are not allowed on WP.
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Thanks everyone for the advice…I wish I had asked before I started..I simply didn’t realize how quickly I would fill it with my pix. Now another question. I have to option of editing the pix in my media library and reducing the size. If I take the time to go through and do that, will it give me back the space, or is it locked in on the original image size and does not affect those posts already published, even though I cannot delete the images without them disappearing from the blog? That tells me they are linked, so would it be my solution??
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@jhlayman-You won’t recover the space that way. WP keeps both copies of the image in case you want to revert to the original.
Some solutions given above:
Replace the existing image and you can do that by editing each image and use the replace button in the advance options to upload and insert a downsized and optimized image. Then delete the original.Post your images publicly on flickr for free and embed those images (really quite easy) to your blog posts.
Spring for a one-time 99$US with the additional 10GB space upgrade and keep uploading on your site until your trip is done (provided it will be done within a year). WP.com won’t delete the images at the end of the year, but you won’t be able to upload new images.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks for posting this question – I’ve hit the same problem of space on my blog!
I was going to have a go with Flickr but I’m having trouble uploading via the flickr url for the individual photos. It doesn’t seem to work. I thought i would just put this in the ‘upload via Url’ bit on the media upload but it doesn’t seem to recognise the url…
Help!
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To use Flickr, grab the “Embed” coding, not the url. Add it directly to the “HTML” or “Text” part of the editor, not your media library. Take out the last line starting with “<script”.
I use “
[caption id="" align="alignright" width=” before the coding, and after the coding I end with “Image by whomever via Flickr[/caption]“. Whatever size the embed is that you chose will automatically fill in after the “width=”. (I hope this comes out OK in this comment box.)
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