{"id":2488,"date":"2019-01-20T20:15:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T19:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2019-03-14T13:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T12:46:54","slug":"how-to-clean-up-the-uploads-folder-of-image-heavy-wordpress-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/how-to-clean-up-the-uploads-folder-of-image-heavy-wordpress-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clean Up the Uploads Folder of Image Heavy WordPress Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Go to settings &#8211; media and set all sizes of those you dont need to 0 (zero) to diasable them.<\/li>\n<li>If you use a theme like &#8222;Total&#8220; disable the additional image sizes option since you only want the native original ones.<\/li>\n<li>Install the &#8222;Force Regenerate Thumbnails&#8220; plugin since this is the only one which also deletes the files\u00a0 for the now unnecessary image sizes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3qwYXxzpVB\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/de.wordpress.org\/plugins\/force-regenerate-thumbnails\/\">Force Regenerate Thumbnails<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/de.wordpress.org\/plugins\/force-regenerate-thumbnails\/embed\/#?secret=3qwYXxzpVB\" data-secret=\"3qwYXxzpVB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8222;Force Regenerate Thumbnails&#8220; &#8212; Plugin Directory\"  marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you want more, now head over to your functions.php fiel and add this line of code to also remove the new wordpress core hidden image size 768px (<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2015\/11\/10\/responsive-images-in-wordpress-4-4\/\">read more<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"null\">add_filter( 'intermediate_image_sizes', '__return_empty_array', 999 );<\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li>Now finally go to &#8222;Tools&#8220; &#8211; &#8222;Force Regenerate Thumbnails&#8220; and regenerate everything.<\/li>\n<li>Afterwards I would recommend to now also further comporess the remaining images with a plugin like &#8222;EWWW Image Optimizer&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8muacNIxnN\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/de.wordpress.org\/plugins\/ewww-image-optimizer\/\">EWWW Image Optimizer<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/de.wordpress.org\/plugins\/ewww-image-optimizer\/embed\/#?secret=8muacNIxnN\" data-secret=\"8muacNIxnN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8222;EWWW Image Optimizer&#8220; &#8212; Plugin Directory\"  marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.stackexchange.com\/questions\/251789\/prevent-wordpress-from-generating-medium-large-768px-size-of-image-uploads\">Read more about this solution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to settings &#8211; media and set all sizes of those you dont need to 0 (zero) to diasable them. If you use a theme like &#8222;Total&#8220; disable the additional image sizes option since you only want the native original ones. Install the &#8222;Force Regenerate Thumbnails&#8220; plugin since this is the only one which also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowboard.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}