Is this supposed to happpen?

  • When I add an image via “add media” in wordpress everything looks fine. I see that the file that was upload into the library is there. However, when I check the backend at wp-content/uploads that one file is there but along with it are numerous other files just with a modified file name. For example, let say I uploaded a file called word.png. 1 image file. No biggie. Now, I go into the wp-content/uploads and see that word.png is there, great. But also, are files called word-125×125.png, word-300×300.png, word-250×350.png, etc. I mean there are seriously 8 different copies of that 1 file that I uploaded but in different file sizes and names to correspond with it.

    What the F****. What is doing this? Its an issue as you can imagine because my upload file is HUGE in terms of file count. I mean let say you uploaded 100 images, on the backend those 100 images are 800 images…..

    What is going on?

    Is this a virus or a plugin or something wordpress does by standard or what?

    Anyone have any info? I am a newb and this is just driving me nuts.

    thanks all.

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  • Thread Starter mvc101

    (@mvc101)

    and this is happening to all of my wordpress sites.

    When files are uploaded WordPress creates additional copies of the image for each size defined in the Admin -> Settings -> Media section, this includes a new image for thumbnail, medium and large sizes of each image. So in your example the new files you are seeing; word-125×125.png is the thumbnail size, word-300×300.png is probably the medium size, etc.

    Hope that helps.

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