When you upload an image using the media uploader of your WordPress site, it creates multiple sizes of that image. By default, WordPress creates 4 additional sizes, but your theme and/or plugin(s) may create more sizes of that image. And it’s really a headache when you are considering your storage.
So, how to stop it?
There are 2 ways to stop WordPress from generating multiple image sizes-
1. With Coding: Set a filter to intermediate_image_sizes_advanced. It returns an array that contains the sizes. Make it return an empty array, and phew! You’re done.
Paste this into the functions.php file of your theme.
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add_filter( 'intermediate_image_sizes_advanced', 'mdc_image_sizes' ); function mdc_image_sizes( $sizes ){ return array(); } |
It’ll stop WP to create additional image sizes and then you’ll have only one copy of the image.
2. Without Coding: Install this plugin- Stop Generating Image Sizes and you are done.
This plugin also allows you to choose which of the sizes you want to be prevented from creating.
