Our site is about interior design and decor DIY (https://wordofdecor.com) and it means that one post can include up to 100 images. So, if all Newspaper thumbnails are switched on I have up to 1900 inodes for one article.
I carefully investigated TagDiv forum about this problem:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-prevent-auto-regenerate-image-size-from-theme-not-media-setting/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/thumbnails-regenrated/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/disable-cropped-thumbnails-images/
But all your recommendations are like “just switch off unused thumbnails” or “clean up your Cpannel”.
Ok, I’ve looked up all blocks that I use and found out that only 7 thumbnails could be excluded. So, we stay with 1200 inodes for one article. Currently I’m able to create 100-250 articles and my hosting inodes limit will be totally out – http://take.ms/Xv7fq
Concerning advice about Cpannel: do you imagine how much time will it take me to delete not used thumbnails from 100 photos? It’s not funny, really – http://take.ms/d0LhBM
Do you plan to do something with this problem?
For example, to create block thumbnails only for featured photo. It’s obvious. What is the barrier to implement such improvement?
Many thanks in advance for your reply.
Note that WP makes images from anything added to the media manager, per the default sizes shown on the settings > media page for *all* themes, defaulting to those most commonly used by the default blog themes included with WP.
The only solution that works across all themes, is to simply use the FTP method for common images, and then use the media manager only for the ‘featured’ image for a story.
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When I ran out of almost all the disk space on the hosting I had to manually delete all unused previews. Yes and it’s sad. Now I use ftp-Protocol to upload photos to the article.
And use the media manager only for the ‘featured’ image for a story.
UPD. Да, к сожалению, лишние превью пришлось удалять вручную. Может быть есть какой-нибудь плагин, который аккуратно это сделает за вас, надо искать…
Эдвард, спасибо за ответ. А то я совсем отчаялась от потока инодов 🙂 В ветке, что Вы поделились, есть упоминание такого плагина http://take.ms/OcpaS
Установила. Если честно, боюсь удалять старое. У меня уже был случай с рекомендованным в интернетах плагином по удалению неиспользуемых фото, пришлось востанавливать сайт с бекапа 🙂
Но для новых подгружаемых фото, протестирую как работает это решение.
I am also facing this problem. I hope that only featured images are regenerated. Regeneration of the image on the post is not necessary. This is because it is visible only in posts.
