Too many thumbnail dimesions

gmyachin

I have used Regenerate thumbnails plugin and it has generated me around 13 different sizes for each image and now my server space is taken up. I have a plugin to delete all the thumbnails, but when I regenerate again it gives me this rediculous amount of thumbnails again. Is there away to keep only the needed dimesnions as it was by default?

Albert

Hi,

all images that comes with theme can be removed or changed under functions/theme-functions.php file where add_image_size() functions are.

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gmyachin

And how do I know exactly which dimesions to remove and which to keep?

Albert

That's why such changes can be done by advanced coders. For us, all images sizes are necessary and that's why we do not have any options to disable or remove them. We use all of them for different items and places.

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gmyachin

I am not an advanced coder, that is true. Although, there were fewer thumbnails and less space taken before I did "Regenerate". Is the only way to get back to how it was  - restore backup of the whole website?

Albert

You probably had fewer less thumbnails before because some of your images were loaded from previous theme. Each theme is different and may have different sizes for images. Themes that got less items and features, always got less number of image sizes. So the get previous images sizes, you must restore backup.

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