Uploading One Picture Creates 8 More

  • Ok this is ridiculous.

    I upload one picture and wordpress creates eight more for a total of nine images for every one I upload.

    I looked farther back in time and don’t see this happening until just recently so I’m guessing it’s something new with wordpress.

    Here’s an example, I uploaded one image file to a post named aaaaaathloncpu.jpg

    and this is what I get when I look at the directory:

    -/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/aaaaaathloncpu.jpg
    -/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/aaaaaathloncpu_thumb.jpg
    -/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/aaaaaathloncpu_thumb-150×150.jpg
    -/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/aaaaaathloncpu_thumb-200×138.jpg
    -/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/aaaaaathloncpu_thumb-75×52.jpg
    -/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/aaaaaathloncpu-150×150.jpg
    -/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/aaaaaathloncpu-200×139.jpg
    -/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/aaaaaathloncpu-300×208.jpg
    -/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/aaaaaathloncpu-75×52.jpg

    I don’t want or need all of those.

    I looked at the older ones and it was just two files, the main image and the thumbnail.

    I do a lot of reviews and sometimes they have lots of pictures in them. A latest review had 60 pics in it so that gives me a total of 540 pictures for one post?! It’s a waste of space for one thing and it’s just not needed.

    How do I stop it from doing that???

    I thought it might be Auto Post Thumbnail plugin but I deleted it and I’m setting my featured image now via code in functions php but it’s still doing that.

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  • Moderator Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    Hi,

    This is the default behavior of WordPress.

    Your themes and plugins can register different image sizes they require to display content properly, when you add a new media element we then run our code over it and make the various sizes that have been registered. This means we do some extra processing when you add media, and save a ton of processing when people request content from you (imagine having to manufacture and assemble a TV for every time you wanted to switch channels or change the aspect ratio).

    The reason you might not see it on older media is most likely due to a change in themes or the size of the images uploaded as we don’t make a new size if the image is smaller than the defined size, nor do we retroactively re-size all images when you change to a new theme.

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