ERROR: Multiple photos of different res. being uploaded to wp-content/uploads

This is standard WordPress functionality – although WordPress only creates a total of four files if I remember correctly. The other sizes will have been added by either a plugin or your theme.

The reason this happens is that WordPress doesn’t do any resizing of images after they’ve been uploaded, so if you want to use an image at a different size, you need to specify that size in code somewhere and a separate image is created for that size every time a new one is uploaded.

This may seem a bit strange, but it’s been done that way because it’s a lot less intensive to create the images when th efiles is uploaded rather then having to resize images every time they are requested. There’s been attempts to do automatic resizing, but most of those attempts have let to security issues (do a search for ‘timthumb wordpress vunerability’ and you’ll see what I mean).

OK, thanks. But why would mine be 13? Again, I turned off all of my plugins, changed themes… still bad…

I don’t know. There has to be something left over from the theme/plugin that’s causing that. One thing to remember is that activating/deactivating plugins and changing themes won’t change the amount of images that are already there, it will only change the amount of images that are produced for any files that you upload after that.

Right. OK… Hmm, guess I’m just stuck with it… lol

Unfortunatly yes. While there’s ways around it, nothings been built into the core yet, and I think that’s because it’s just such a huge departure form how it’s currently done that it will break a whole lot of stuff that’s around now. Maybe one day in the future it dynamic image resizing will be available in WordPress, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one!

OK. Thanks!