Title: Bypass Thumbnail Usage?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Bypass Thumbnail Usage?

 *  [mccclxxxv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mccclxxxv/)
 * (@mccclxxxv)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bypass-thumbnail-usage/)
 * Hello,
 * Is there a way to use the original image as the thumbnail? Right now, all my 
   images are the exact same size and I set the thumbnail size to be the exact same
   as well. This allows me to see all the images in their original sizes on the 
   same page at one time.
 * Basically, I want to skip having to create the thumbnails because it is redundant.
   I also have a background process that replaces my original files with updated
   versions of them, so I don’t want to have to replace the thumbs as well.
 * Is there any quick way to do this? I assume it should be fairly easy to edit 
   a line of code somewhere to remove the reference from the thumbs folder….
 * Thanks very much.
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bypass-thumbnail-usage/)
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