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  • July 13, 2014 at 5:20 am #290718
    Monsoon

    Here is an issue that is starting to worry me
    We have events every week and we usually get a good 20 photos per event
    If I take a single image that has already been compressed its around 88k
    After uploading that single image in a gallery we now have 590k used by 14 images…for a single image uploaded
    After uploading 17 images for 1 meg we get 8.3 megs in 238 images…a 14X more images than initially uploaded
    After a year you end up with terrabytes of extra images and huge volumes to backup daily
    This is an issue. Can you tell me why there are 14 different sizes for images uploaded to the gallery?
    I need to have only 2 sizes for the gallery: The 180×180 preview image and the full size…that s it
    If I upload an image to the site to use as a banner I have no problem with 14 different sizes made but for galleries there is no reason to bleed that many images.
    I suspect the code is all or nothing…right?

    Any chances you could look into having only two sizes for images using the gallery? and only have 14 different size for non gallery uploads? If one changes the size of the thumbnails one can always regenerate the thumbnails. I just can t handle 100.000 images folders.

    July 13, 2014 at 6:31 am #290734
    Devin

    Hey Monsoon!

    As far as I know WordPress has no ability to differentiate between thumbnail sizes generated. You would need to delete the extras after each upload over FTP or change the functions.php file right before each upload to prevent them from being generated.

    Edit: To explain why, its to make your site load faster for users. So they aren’t downloading a 1200×1200 image when all they need is an 80×80.

    Best regards,
    Devin

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    July 13, 2014 at 7:13 pm #290810
    Monsoon

    Hmm I guess I could manually remove everything in the photos folders besides the 180X thumbs and the full size
    Thanks

    July 14, 2014 at 12:44 pm #290994
    Ismael

    Hi!

    Looks like it is possible to filter the thumbnail sizes only when they are needed but it is a bit complicated so a freelance developer might come in handy. Refer to this link: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/57369/new-image-size-version-only-for-the-featured-image-file

    I haven’t tested this plugin and I’m not sure if this is of any help but you can try on a test server, maybe, just maybe it will solve your problem: http://wordpress.org/plugins/dynamic-image-resizer/

    Cheers!
    Ismael

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