Too many thumbnails and image sizes created — How to find the ones I don't need?

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by Zhu, Sep 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM.

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    I have a blog I started in 2005, so it's quite big already.

    I realized that my theme and Wordpress are creating multiple image sizes and thumbnails of each picture, and I'm running out of disk space.

    According to the regenerate thumbnail plugin, the following are created:

    Thumbnail Sizes These are all the thumbnail sizes that are currently registered:

    • thumbnail: 600×600 pixels (cropped to fit)
    • medium: 1620×0 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • medium_large: 768×0 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • large: 1620×0 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • pixelwars_core_image_size_1: 0×550 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • pixelwars_core_image_size_2: 1060×0 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • pixelwars_core_image_size_3: 550×550 pixels (cropped to fit)
    • pixelwars_core_image_size_4: 1920×1200 pixels (cropped to fit)
    • 1536x1536: 1536×1536 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • 2048x2048: 2048×2048 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • theblogger_image_size_1: 1060×0 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • theblogger_image_size_2: 550×0 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • theblogger_image_size_3: 550×550 pixels (cropped to fit)
    • theblogger_image_size_4: 550×362 pixels (cropped to fit)
    • theblogger_image_size_5: 300×300 pixels (cropped to fit)
    • theblogger_image_size_6: 0×500 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • theblogger_image_size_7: 1920×0 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • theblogger_image_size_8: 0×1080 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • mailpoet_newsletter_max: 1320×0 pixels (proportionally resized to fit inside dimensions)
    • tptn_thumbnail: 250×250 pixels (cropped to fit)
    How do I figure out the ones I really need and hopefully clean up this mess?

    Thank you!
     
    Zhu, Sep 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM IP
  2. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    oh my, that's quite a lot. You should only need one webp image and one thumbnail. The theme should be using css to manage the rest.

    I'm guessing you need a new theme or to find the settings that turn off all that otherwise it's going to keep doing it.
     
    sarahk, Sep 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM IP