Uploads folder organization

  • I inherited a WordPress site and re-did it using a new theme. The site had many plugins in use and I eliminated as many as possible.

    The site is horribly slow – much more so than any of the other 50 sites I support. It has a different hosting company than I am used to but I’m wondering if the problem isn’t that the legacy WordPress database is full of junk slowing it down.

    One thing I noticed while working on the site was that the original developer had unchecked the Settings / Media option to organize uploads into month and year based folders. This means the top-level uploads directory has a lot of images in it.

    Is it possible that storing images this way is slowing the site down significantly? I have since enabled the folders option but of course that is only good for images uploaded now. I’m wondering if I should take the time to replace all the images in the site with new versions.

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  • Is it possible that storing images this way is slowing the site down significantly?

    No this won’t slow down your site, it might be the website theme or one of the plugin making your website to be slow. Have you tried switching to twentysixteen theme or deactivating all plugins to see how the website loads?

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