Cómo evitar que WordPress genere tamaños de imagen

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1. Syed Balkhi says

   Abr 28, 2024 en 2:24 pm

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2. Daphne says

   Dic 18, 2023 en 9:30 am

   Thank you! I transitioned a site over to Divi, then added several galleries. Was blown away buy the file storage glut. This easy solution brought the total storage down to something managable.

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   • WPBeginner Support says

     Dic 19, 2023 en 10:32 am

     Glad we help keep your media library a manageable size

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3. Jenn Summers says

   Mar 4, 2019 en 7:15 pm

   Hi, today I changed all my settings to 0 like shown in your instructions above. I uploaded a new picture and when I attempted to resize in side bar all I have for options is full size (which is too big) and shareaholic from another plugin in my site. I tried setting back to default settings. And it didn’t change still same two options. Any idea how I can fix this?

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   • WPBeginner Support says

     Mar 5, 2019 en 11:32 am

     If the plugin was already uploaded, you would want to use the regenerate thumbnails plugin for creating a the returned image sizes. We have a guide on how to use it here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails-new-image-sizes-wordpress/

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4. javidan says

   Jul 11, 2017 en 5:35 am

   HI
   how to prevent WP to generate variety image size for all images?
   in a single post we have 6-7 image and wp will generate 3 size for all of them that not be used except thumbnail
   and another question is make gallery but google crawl that page of that single image why?

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5. Scott says

   Mar 17, 2017 en 12:35 pm

   Does not work. You have to modify the functions.php flle. This is one of the most irritating thing WP does. You should be prompted to create multiples sizes after uploading files. It should not be assumed. Bad bad…

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6. Amit says

   Mar 9, 2017 en 6:09 am

   Hello,
   I have a running image sharing website, usually, we insert more than 20 images in a single post. I want to prevent WordPress from generating different image sizes for inserted images, except for the post featured image.

   For example, If there are 20 images in my post. I want WP to generate image sizes for the Featured image only, and for other inserted images i don’t want different sizes.
   Actually, the problem is the limited storage space and the other problem is that with those useless image sizes the backup file has more size.

   How can I achieve this?
   I appreciate your help.

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   • Lalit says

     Nov 9, 2017 en 1:06 am

     Please @WPbeginner provided any solution for this query. I am also looking for an answer.

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     • WPBeginner Support says

       Nov 10, 2017 en 6:05 am

       Hi Lalit and Amit,

       Unfortunately, this is not as straightforward. Your WordPress theme may have defined its own image sizes, some times WordPress plugins may also define new image sizes. First you will need to figure out the sizes you don’t want to use anymore. This may result in unexpected behavior from your theme and or plugin. You will need to know the name used by the theme or plugin to remove the image size.

       add_action('init', 'remove_plugin_image_sizes');
       
       function remove_plugin_image_sizes() {
       	remove_image_size('image-size-name');
       }
       
       

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       Another alternate could be using a plugin like “Optimize Images Resizing”, which stops generating image sizes upon upload and only creates a new image size when you select that size to insert in the post.

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       • Lalit says

         Nov 15, 2017 en 12:45 am

         Thank you so much for the response.

7. Yash Gautam says

   Ene 10, 2017 en 8:55 am

   If i stop this from media settings, like set all to 0. is this make any effect on Responsive functionality ?

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8. Mohamed Abdel-Hady says

   Nov 16, 2016 en 3:27 am

   Great article, but I have a question
   When I hired a developer to do my WP website, he sat the 3 default image sizes to some numbers which always made my gallery images to look pixelated when clicked on and enlarged inspite of using WP retina 2x plugin to make all my images look “retina-quality”, so I sat those sizes to zeroes and tried re-uploading an image and baam, it looks super sharp, however, my subheader images never look as sharp or crisp …. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY? IT’S DRIVING ME NUTS!!!

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9. Xuan hoa says

   Ago 17, 2016 en 6:50 am

   And i dont want save original image, how i can do it ? thanks

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10. Steve Woods says

    Jun 23, 2016 en 10:38 am

    I am using Suffusion theme and beside the three native sizes of 200×200, 300×225, 400×300, I am also getting 96×96, 128×128, 128×72 and 480×360. That’s seven sizes!

    The problem is that all these different sizes may be seen by Google as duplication. That seems to hold water because only a small fraction of my images are being indexed.

    Is there a setting I am missing or plugin that can fix and clean this mess up?

    TIA

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    • WPBeginner Support says

      Jun 23, 2016 en 8:47 pm

      We feel that Google understands that your site may host several smaller or larger versions of an image. It is not duplicate content.

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11. Duncan says

    Jun 1, 2016 en 10:23 am

    I want to be able to click on an image in my blog to open it as an enlarged version in a separate pop-up window. How?

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12. Amit Kr Sharma says

    May 3, 2016 en 12:44 am

    Hello,
    i have a running image sharing website , usually we insert more then 20 images in a single post. I want to prevent WordPress from generating different image sizes for inserted images, except for the post featured image.

    For example If there’s 20 images in my post. I want WP to generate image sizes for the Featured image only, and for other inserted images i don’t want different sizes.
    Actually the problem is the limited storage space and the other problem is that with those useless image sizes the backup file has more size.

    How can I achieve this ?
    I appreciate your help.

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13. Jefferson says

    Ene 7, 2016 en 11:12 pm

    It helped me a lot! Thank you very much!

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14. ITWEBMOB says

    Dic 10, 2015 en 2:58 pm

    But still one major issue , Stop use thumbnail native image
    I want Use cache image thumbnail inserted of native image, its create junk on web-space
    e.g If I upload one product its make 3-6 thumbnail image from original picture.

    How can I use Cache images system e.g. megento, prestashop, opencart with easy one click all cache clear option

    note: use spl folder location for store cache images not wp-content/2015/12/

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15. pavlo says

    Ago 27, 2015 en 3:56 am

    Very helpful article, I found what generates 88×88 thumbnails in functions.php of my theme! thanks a lot!

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16. Marius says

    Ago 18, 2015 en 7:29 pm

    Thanks for the article. More than a year later it’s still useful! I just managed to change my theme to stop creating potentially thousands of variants of images I intend to have in WordPress galleries. However, what I did was
    (1) to comment out the add_image_size( ‘square100’, 100, 100, true ) as suggested, and
    (2) to replace the parameters to the_post_thumbnail call (see WP Codex) with an array e g
    the_post_thumbnail(‘square100’) became the_post_thumbnail( array(100,100)).
    This stopped the unnecessary creation of variants for every image loaded.
    To do this I had to override various functions and files in the theme by using a child theme, which is a whole subject on its own, and not to be attempted if you don’t have good knowledge of how child themes work!

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17. Nicolas says

    Jul 27, 2015 en 8:41 am

    Hi do you happen to know how to unregister
    add_image_size
    set_post_thumbnail_size?

    While removing the line works i wouldn’t like to modify the theme and unregister on my child theme, so i don’t have to remember to do it again every time the theme updates.

    Thank you.

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18. Jay says

    Abr 11, 2015 en 6:43 pm

    I just read this and my theme and wordpress combined is generating 25 copies of each photo! I use a lot of photos on my site, the big question is how do we know which ones we can erase, i think three sizes is more then enough, but 25 sizes!

    Any thoughts WPBeginner!

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19. subhojti says

    Jul 8, 2014 en 9:51 am

    thank you

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20. Jens Brogaard says

    Abr 15, 2014 en 9:42 am

    Hi there, I think you’ve overlooked a way to decrease the number of generated image sizes;
    First, as you mention, get an overview of image settings in WP, theme and perhaps plugins – jot them down, px by px.
    Secondly, decide what is needed according to your visual needs. Often there’s small differences in e.g. thumbnail size but you can do with just one global size.
    Then lastly, align as much as possible, i.e. keep all the image settings but try to set as few variations as possible.
    I’n not in favor of messing around with the code since too often something will break down the road but this is just good practice of knowing what you want

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    • Mitchell says

      Abr 22, 2014 en 3:44 pm

      Jens, would you mind private messaging me? I’m having a heck of time trying to reduce the amount of images on my site. My host is going to shut it down.

      mcal2005@gmail.com

      Much appreciated!

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21. greg taylor says

    Mar 4, 2014 en 4:58 pm

    Is there a computer–mac- windows-or chrome book, etc that lends itself to easier/better writing a wp blog—.com, not org? any overall ease of use for a newbie, like me?
    any thoughts on above appreciated.—greg —ww2–disabled vet

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22. Christian Zumbrunnen says

    Mar 4, 2014 en 2:34 pm

    There is a plugin called “Regenarete Thumbnails” (and another one “Force Regenerate Thumbnails”) which will resize existing images according to the new configuration. At least the second one promises to also delete the old resized images.

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23. Himanshu Goel says

    Mar 4, 2014 en 11:52 am

    I want to keep the thumbnails and rest I want to ignore, so, I will change only other 2 options than Thumbnail and If this will work…

    Really, That will be helpful guys…!

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    • WPBeginner Support says

      Mar 4, 2014 en 4:25 pm

      Yes that would work.

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24. Christian says

    Mar 4, 2014 en 7:15 am

    Thanks for the interesting article !

    You mention the “uploads” folder but there is also the: /wp-content/uploads/et_temp folder which in my case is also full of copies of images. Can you shed some light on the purpose of this particular folder. I am using a “Elegant Theme” called Envisioned.

    Thanks & Cheers,

    CF

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    • WPBeginner Support says

      Mar 4, 2014 en 4:32 pm

      Seems like your theme or may be a plugin is responsible for adding images into this folder. Unfortunately, we can not specifically provide help with individual theme and plugin settings. You will need to contact your theme or plugin support and ask them how you can prevent this.

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25. Mike says

    Mar 3, 2014 en 2:24 pm

    FANTASTIC article. Now I just need to figure out how to delete the unneeded images that have already been generated, without deleting the ones I need.

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26. sachin says

    Mar 3, 2014 en 12:36 pm

    thank you so much for posting this. i have very tensed about disk space and inodes now i can feel some relief thank you very much….

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27. Karen H. says

    Mar 3, 2014 en 10:02 am

    Thanks for another useful article. I’m just wondering whether removing the various image sizes would have an adverse effect on mobile/responsive WP sites. Don’t we need those sizes so the images can adjust to various screen sizes and orientations?

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    • WPBeginner Support says

      Mar 3, 2014 en 10:17 pm

      Not always true. Many themes use jQuery and css to make your images responsive.

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