Title: 10-year old site with a 20+GB library – want to decrease size
Last modified: March 13, 2022

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# 10-year old site with a 20+GB library – want to decrease size

 *  [reozta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reozta/)
 * (@reozta)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/10-year-old-site-with-a-20gb-library-want-to-decrease-size/)
 * We have been running our site for 10 years now and we have accumulated a lot 
   of content in that time. Over the years, we’ve used different themes, plugins,
   etc. My partner and I are not developers and our knowledge only goes so far. 
   We have a very larger library, but we aren’t sure what is actually necessary 
   for our site and what is bloat from changes made to the site over the years. 
   We don’t want to just look for a person on a site like Fiverr (there’s nothing
   wrong with it – we just want to make sure that we have a good resource and not
   a random one). Does anyone have any suggestions or resources that would be good
   for this sort of thing? If anyone happens to have knowledge of what we should
   look for in our library – files we wouldn’t need anymore – that would be much
   appreciated.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/10-year-old-site-with-a-20gb-library-want-to-decrease-size/#post-15454620)
 * Check out [https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-clean-up-your-wordpress-media-library/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-clean-up-your-wordpress-media-library/)
 * Before deleting anything, though, be sure to make a full backup of your site 
   and database.

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