Save Webserver Space by turning off Image Thumbnails in WordPress

      

If you are using wordpress as your blogging system you know that everytime you publish a post with an image, WordPress creates two thumbnails and store them in the web server. These thumbnails are useful for photo galleries where smaller image will be displayed have a link to original image. These thumbnails are useful if you displaying some photo gallery but otherwise it just eat up the valuable web space.

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You may want to disable this feature all together so that WordPress does not generates these thumbnails. Following are the simple steps to turn off the image thumbnail creation in wordpress:

  1. Login to WordPress Admin panel
  2. Go to Settings -> Miscellaneous Settings
  3. Clear the textbox for heigt and weight in Thumbnail size and Medium size section.
  4. Save changes. WordPress will never generate the thumbnails.

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3 Comments on “Save Webserver Space by turning off Image Thumbnails in WordPress”

  • lucien wrote on 27 August, 2009, 3:04

    this solutions is not working with my wordpress 2.8.4? any other idea to disable thumbnails?
    thks a lot!
  • Viral Patel wrote on 27 August, 2009, 3:22

    Hi Lucien,
    The above setting is working perfectly with my WordPress 2.8.4 setup. I cleared the Width and Height option in Settings -> Media tab and it stopped creating thumbnail images.
  • Akshay wrote on 19 October, 2009, 20:09

    I’m using 2.8.4
    I would suggest you to put in the values as 0.It should work fine.

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