Best way to deal with image files.

  • Anthyx

    (@anthyx)


    9 years ago

    Hi Chouby,

    first of all many thanks a lot for your great plugin: it’s sssso useful for my multi-language web site.

    I just need a suggestion: when I first started the website I used the wordpress default layout tool, I was used to upload my images and “duplicate” them using the plus button in the media library list, assigning an istance of the same image to each of the two languages.

    I know, the image isn’t actually duplicated in the site image folder, it’s just a flag used by polylang to address one particular image to the right language.

    Right now I have completely abandoned the wp visual layout tools, I prefer to build my pages directly from code: I don’t need the language “flag” for each image since I point directly to the image folder and name.

    Do you think it would be best to delete the double “istances” for each of the the image I have in my media library to lighten it a bit or perhaps it’s better to keep it for a future use?

    Many many thanks in advance for your help!

    Best regards,

    Antonio

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/

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  • Plugin Author Chouby

    (@chouby)

    9 years ago

    Hi!

    I don’t believe it is necessary to delete your unused media.

    NB: when you uncheck the media option in Polylang settings, languages and translations groups for existing media are kept.

    Thread Starter Anthyx

    (@anthyx)

    9 years ago

    Hi,

    I see: if I uncheck “Activate languages and translations for media” in the settings menu I see no more the language columns on the right side of media library.

    Still, the double instance for each image refered to each of the two languages I use remain: can i safely delete the duplicated image (let’s say, all media flagged as “italian”) without affecting, something like for example SEO?

    Again, many thanks!

    A.

    Plugin Author Chouby

    (@chouby)

    9 years ago

    I am not an SEO expert. I guess however that it depends on the url you use to access your image. If it is no changed, there should be no impact.

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