Generated Images on Upload

[uxmediahouse]

Does X or Pro override the generated images on upload? I am trying to narrow down where this is happening. One of the things that drives me nuts about WP is that it generates multiple unneeded images on upload.

I know there is a way in WP to essentially turn this off, and I have done that. But, I am still getting multiple images when I upload, see screenshot:

Is this Pro doing this? It COULD be an additional plugin I am using called WP Media Folder, but their support says they don’t think it is the culprit. Please help! I want to keep this site lean, and not stuffed with image sizes I will never use.

[jumar]

Hello @Riceman,

Thanks for writing in!

It wasn’t PRO or WP Media Folder plugin but Wordpress itself.

To stop auto resizing, follow the simple steps:

1. Go to Settings > Media into your Wordpress dashboard.
2. Now in Large, Medium and Thumbnail sizes, simply put 0 into their width and height:

3. Save your changes.

This setting will take effect in your future uploads.

Hope this helps.

[uxmediahouse]

Thanks…I should have been clearer. When I said “I know there is a way in WP to essentially turn this off, and I have done that” I meant that I have already done what you suggest. The Large, Medium and Thumbnail sizes are all set to 0.

But when I upload images I STILL get these sizes(see below) and it seems to me that there are 6 additional files being generated.

Why is this happening and how can I stop it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even if you can point me in the direction of the offending plugin. Thank you guys!

Please feel free to login and look around. I added FTP in the secure note if you need it.

As a note. I think before I added the WP Media Folder plugin only 3 additional files were being generated. I have deactivated and even uninstalled this plugin, but as you can see 6 additional files are being generated. Could WP Media Folder have added another file somewhere?

[ruenel]

Hello There,

Thank you for the clarifications. Please be advised that them has it’s own set of image dimension which is needed in displaying the images like the featured images or the recent post element images. In the FUNCTIONS/GLOBAL/ADMIN/SETUP.PHP file at line 80, there is this settings:

    // Featured Images
    // ---------------
    // Theme support for featured images and thumbnail sizes.

    add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
    set_post_thumbnail_size( 100, 9999 );
    add_image_size( 'entry',                   x_post_thumbnail_width(),      9999,                                   false );
    add_image_size( 'entry-cropped',           x_post_thumbnail_width(),      x_post_thumbnail_cropped_height(),      true  );
    add_image_size( 'entry-fullwidth',         x_post_thumbnail_width_full(), 9999,                                   false );
    add_image_size( 'entry-cropped-fullwidth', x_post_thumbnail_width_full(), x_post_thumbnail_cropped_height_full(), true  );

This sets the different image sizes to be used in the theme. The rest of the dimension could be coming from other settings which may have added by a 3rd party plugin as well.

Hope this helps.

[uxmediahouse]

Thank you! This is perfect. I will disable this for the build and then reactivate it once we add posts.

[jumar]

That’s great! On behalf of my colleague, you’re welcome.