Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Do you know which folder the images are generated in? If so, FTP into that folder and keep an eye on it.
Then deactivate all of your plugins and re-upload an image. Do the (unnecessary) thumbnails persist? If so that’s an issue with your theme.
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Pete
(@perthmetro)
“Then deactivate all of your plugins… “
I’m afraid that’s out of the question, I have 50 plugins and it’s a live site. I was hoping there’s a plugin or function that could tell me what other plugins fire off an add_image_size function. I guess i’ll just do a text search through each plugin’s code to find it 🙁
This article should help you: http://andorwp.com/add-remove-change-and-regenerate-image-sizes-in-wordpress/
WordPress creates three default images sizes for each upload, but your theme and/or plugins may be generating more. Once you know the sizes you may want to disable, the following code (from that article) will be able to remove them:
function remove_image_sizes() {
if ( function_exists( 'add_image_size' ) ) {
remove_image_size( 'custom-image-size1');
remove_image_size( 'custom-image-size2');
}
}
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'remove_image_sizes');
Hope this helps!
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Pete
(@perthmetro)
Thanks, I just need to find the custom image size name. That’s the hard bit!
I haven’t personally used the plugin, but I think this will allow you to see all of the image sizes listed:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-all-image-sizes/
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Pete
(@perthmetro)
Thanks, it looks promising!
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Pete
(@perthmetro)
Brilliant, glad you managed to sort it out finally!
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