How do I delete unused image thumbnails?

Hey Tomasssu,

Thank you for the inquiry.

The theme register its own thumbnails and whenever you upload a product image, these thumbnails are automatically generated as well which is probably why the images takes up that much space in the server. If you don’t need those thumbnails, you can manually remove them using the following snippet in the functions.php file.

// Disable loads of Enfold & WP image sizes upon upload
add_action('init', 'remove_enfold_image_sizes');
function remove_enfold_image_sizes() {
// do NOT remove widget size, is used in backend portfolio items!
// remove_image_size('widget');
  remove_image_size('square');
  remove_image_size('featured');
  remove_image_size('featured_large');
  remove_image_size('portfolio');
  remove_image_size('portfolio_small');
  remove_image_size('gallery');
  remove_image_size('magazine');
  remove_image_size('masonry');
  remove_image_size('entry_without_sidebar');
  remove_image_size('entry_with_sidebar');
  remove_image_size('shop_thumbnail');
  remove_image_size('shop_catalog');
  remove_image_size('shop_single'); 
  remove_image_size('shop_gallery_thumbnail');
}

After adding the snippet, use the following plugin to regenerate the images, which should also remove the unregistered thumbnails.

// https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

IMPORTANT: Please do not forget to create a backup or a restore point before doing the above steps.

Related thread: https://kriesi.at/support/topic/media-upload-and-enfolds-thumbnail-sizes/#post-1270140

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Thank you for the update.

I try to manually remove them using the following your snippet in the functions.php

Adding the snippet in the functions.php file will only deregister the thumbnail sizes but it will not remove those that are already generated. To remove the existing thumbnails, you have to regenerate the images using the plugin (Regenerate Thumbnails) that we suggested above. This process might take a while depending on the number of images uploaded in the site, and since the site contains many, expect it to take some time.

IMPORTANT: Please do not forget to create a backup or a restore point before proceeding with the thumbnail regeneration.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Glad to know that the solution that we provided above works.

To delete unused images, you could either do it manually by deleting the image from the Media > Library panel — this will also delete the thumbnails for that particular image — or use the following plugin.

// https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-cleaner/

Again it is very IMPORTANT that you have a site backup or a restore point before using the plugin.

Best regards,
Ismael