Title: Replacing images
Last modified: February 9, 2022

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# Replacing images

 *  [robbiehendry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robb1e/)
 * (@robb1e)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-images/)
 * I have a gallery of images which when I uploaded didn’t realise how large the
   files are which are taking up a fair bit of space on my server.
    What is like
   to know is, if I deleted the images and uploaded same name smaller sized images
   to the same image dated folder would that work fine? Would the new images be 
   shown instead?
 * Thanks for any help
 * Regards
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-images/#post-15346643)
 * If you want to upload images of the same name, use the plugin “enable media replace”
   so the new images will replace the old ones.
 *  Thread Starter [robbiehendry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robb1e/)
 * (@robb1e)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-images/#post-15346660)
 * But does that not only do one at a time?
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-images/#post-15346672)
 * Yes.
 *  Thread Starter [robbiehendry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robb1e/)
 * (@robb1e)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-images/#post-15346682)
 * Unfortunately I have a couple of hundred.
 *  Thread Starter [robbiehendry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robb1e/)
 * (@robb1e)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-images/#post-15352959)
 * Can anyone tell me if my original question would work?
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-images/#post-15352967)
 * Have you looked into one of the [image compression plugins](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/compress+image)?

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 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-images/#post-15352967)
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