Title: Co-authors adding extra image thumbs
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Co-authors adding extra image thumbs

 *  [underclass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/underclass/)
 * (@underclass)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/co-authors-adding-extra-image-thumbs/)
 * Co-authors plus is adding extra thumbnails to uploaded images in posts and pages
   rather than just author avatars.
 * In class-coauthors-guest-authors.php line 127-130 it is possible to comment out
   these sizes.
 * Is there a way to stop the generation of these extra thumbs for media uploads?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/)

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 *  [jimmywb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimmywb/)
 * (@jimmywb)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/co-authors-adding-extra-image-thumbs/#post-4898766)
 * I’m also having an issue with this. It would be great if only the author avatars
   generated the additional thumbnails because now I have several hundred useless
   images floating around my uploads folder!
 *  [jimmywb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimmywb/)
 * (@jimmywb)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/co-authors-adding-extra-image-thumbs/#post-4898767)
 * I wrote this little function for functions.php to prevent the generation of these
   extraneous images, but it will also prevent the gravatar from generating these
   images. So take it for what it’s worth.
 *     ```
       function remove_coauthors_images() {
           // Stop Co-Authors Plus from generating thumbnails
           $avatar_sizes = array(
       				32,
       				64,
       				96,
       				128
       			);
           foreach( $avatar_sizes as $size ) {
               remove_image_size( 'guest-author-' . $size);
           }
       }
       add_action('init', 'remove_coauthors_images'); // Remove CoAuthors additional thumbnails
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [jimmywb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimmywb/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/co-authors-adding-extra-image-thumbs/#post-4898767)
 * Status: not resolved