An image size question from a Joomla guy :-)

  • Hi everyone.

    I’ve inherited looking after a WordPress site by the usual method of being asked at my golf club. They knew I ‘did computers’ and I’m a mug for offering to help.

    Well I know Joomla pretty well but I’m a WordPress virgin. I know of it, I like it, and I’ll gradually get the hang of it.

    Anyway, onto a question which I’m sure a seasoned WordPress user will answer in no time.

    I’ve reset the maximum image size to be 600px on the longer side, but loads of images with 1024 in the suffix have already been generated. I’d like to remove all of those 1024 sized images, and everything bigger as well.

    In other words, nothing more than 600px on the larger side should exist on the web server. This is because the site owners really don’t want people grabbing hi-res images and printing them. (The images are historical and part of the agreement to use them was to restrict the chances of duplication.)

    My site, although a bit irrelevant to this post, is at https://www.blackdownarchives.org.uk

    Any replies gratefully appreciated, even if they are ‘no it can’t be done, you’ll need to do everything manually’.

    Thanks
    Steve

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  • Thread Starter budfox

    (@budfox)

    Just to add, I’ve now read about various plugins to regenerate the thumbnails.

    I think I’ll go and try one of those before bothering anyone again.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    The regeneration plugins won’t delete the old image sizes. EVEN if you set your Large size to 600, that doesn’t prevent you from uploading the full size of 1040 or whatever.

    Basically, you need to edit the image size before you upload it to prevention that.

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