Stopping automatic Featured Image creation

  • I am using a Child Theme of Twenty Twelve on my WordPress photo blog.

    Twenty Twelve supports Featured Images (aka Post Thumbnails), and generates a 624px wide image for every larger image I upload.

    I don’t actually use the Featured Image facility. I just insert my images directly into posts. And these images are just wasting server space.

    I removed Post Thumbnails support by adding the remove_theme_support function call to my child functions.php. This removes the panel from the edit page, but the theme still generates the image on upload.

    I could edit the theme’s functions.php to remove the set_post_thumbnail_size function, but that defeats the point of using a Child Theme. Is there another way to stop these images being generated?

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  • Thread Starter Bunzer

    (@bunzer)

    I think I worked it out…

    //remove featured images
function kill_pt() {
	set_post_thumbnail_size( 0, 0 );
	remove_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'kill_pt', 11 );
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