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  • Thread Starter hlhs

    (@hlhs)

    Apologies if I’m not very clear. This is an area of WP that I don’t know much about, and I’m still not quite sure what this plugin is doing.

    If I understand it correctly, this “Disable Generate Thumbnails” turns off the checked thumbnail sizes from the set of thumbnails that have been “registered” in the system, so that for any new Media uploads those thumbnails will not be generated (and existing thumbnails for existing media items are unaffected). This sounds like the behaviour I want when uploading images (using “Media from ftp”), since those media items do not need woocommerce and shop thumbnails.

    What I’m not understanding is how I re-enable generated thumbnails to include (or re-register) the woocommerce and shop thumbnails, since I do still need those thumbnails for other media items that I will upload (e.g. for new products). I don’t want to “Regenerate thumbnails” for existing media items. I think I just need the inverse of “Disable Generate Thumbnails”, so that the full set of thumbnails is restored for my system.

    Or do the full set of registered thumbnails return if I restart my system (e.g. close down the WP session, and then start it up again)? That is, your “Disable Generate Thumbnails” has an effect only for that uploading session?

    Thread Starter hlhs

    (@hlhs)

    Thanks for the quick response. To my surprise, I discovered that the website indeed has 10 image sizes registered. Woocommerce was creating the extra ones.

    For my application, where I’m uploading a large number of images for a photo archive, these media files don’t need these extra image sizes (e.g. the woocommerce ones). I wondered therefore if a useful enhancement you might consider for the future is to allow a user to choose to generate either the full set of image types, or just the standard set (thumbnail, medium, large).

    Thanks.

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