Hi, I’ve faced the problem of to many copies of files on my server, since I’ve switched all possible variants of thumbs, thus the theme made a present of about 15 copies of each file. Know I have a question, how to ‘clean’ the server without damaging the site, would thank for any suggestions.
May be it is possible the make the thumb copies of different sizes only for the featured picture and the rest will be just uploaded as they are?
There is a plugin which can “trim” the sizes you’re not using from media folder, but I have not tried that. You could make a very safe backup of everything and then try that. It’s in the main WP plugin repo if you look for it.
Hey Chris,
Recently learned of a great website that compresses images perfectly: https://tinyjpg.com/
Having backed up all of my websites using FTP access, I took EVERY image and uploaded them to this compressing image site, one folder’s worth at a time.
Then saved the compressed images in new appropriately named folders and CAREFULLY uploaded to overwrite the images on the server. This took me days to complete but it saved my hosting server sooooo much room it wasn’t funny.
Also … installed WP Optimize plugin and cleaned out EVERY revision ever made to EACH website saving even MORE server space. One site alone saved 46.2MB another 10.3MB … yes, MegaBites.
Once you’ve completed your clean up be sure to deactivate and remove this plugin until next cleaning. Extra plugins will cause your server to slow down too so there is no need to leave this one installed.
Am guessing others are now experiencing the same Resources Limit Reached prompts that made me go looking for a new theme … as old themes that have not been updated and fully optimized will also bog down a server.
Hope this helps.
