we are being using this theme for the last couple of years and i wanted to thank the team for putting in such a awesome theme file
ok now there are two issues on this system i guess
first of all the no of images the featured images multiplies are too many , i understand that it is based on the theme but imagine my site is now 25GB plus only for uploads, no matter what ever server i use it spikes and i need to find a solution.
so after a lot of testing i feel that the site should adapt to the images only according to the theme or just according to the devices mostly used.
Next comes the main feature which any newspaper site should have is archive system , it helps the system in two ways make the initial site light by archive the old content and the database also can be made into two one for main site and another for archive.
now after so many years like 3+ years i had to pull the site down and start fresh as i was totally fed up and had no way that i could afford another huge server.
There is no theme with such an archive feature as themes manage design and general look/dbase queries, not backup/archive of content or dbase, or deleting old images and content.
You might look at some options that have been around for many years to auto-expire posts, which is how most people do that for issues of system resources.
Also, you can conserve disk space by uploading your images via FTP, then loading in to the post by pasting in URL; then use a plugin to simply auto generate one ‘featured’ image and related thumbs from FIRST POST. That’s how we do it on various sites.
one example – https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-expirator/
