Remove wordpress generated image files.

by David Reed Posted: 11 years ago 3 replies

I run a sports club website which has several thousand pictures on it. My hosting however has counted 190,000 files in my uploads folder. I am lead to believe that a lot of these are different sizes of each image generated by wordpress (large, medium, small and thumbnail).
Is there an easy way to remove these?
I know now to set the sizes of these auto-generated sizes to '0' so they are not generated, but how do I remove those 'hidden' files that are currently in the folder?

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Andionex 11 years ago

Please tell me how to set the sizes of these auto-generated sizes to '0' ?
mrhmamun 11 years ago

You need to login your site via FTP then find out where your all images are uploaded then take a action.
cdebbie 11 years ago

You'll have to determine the location of the files in your hosting by logging in via FTP and once there you decide if you want to delete them all, just some or do something else. Keep in mind that deleting images may cause issues on the site if they were used on it.

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Remove wordpress generated image files.

David Reed • 11 years ago • 3 replies

I run a sports club website which has several thousand pictures on it. My hosting however has counted 190,000 files in my uploads folder. I am lead to believe that a lot of these are different sizes of each image generated by wordpress (large, medium, small and thumbnail). Is there an easy way to remove these? I know now to set the sizes of these auto-generated sizes to '0' so they are not generated, but how do I remove those 'hidden' files that are currently in the folder?