{"id":66917,"date":"2011-12-16T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=66917"},"modified":"2013-01-01T20:08:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T01:08:19","slug":"friday-wordpress-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/friday-wordpress-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday’s WordPress Question: A WPMU Reader Needs Your Wisdom!"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Our competition is on again! Please submit a WordPress question<\/a> for your chance to win a 3 month membership at WPMU DEV (valued at $159).<\/strong><\/p>\n

A big thank you to everyone who participated in our WordPress Question competition<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

We’ve had a raft of challenging questions sent in by our readers, and some outstanding responses from helpful folk in the WPMU community. We’ll be doing a wrap up article on Monday where we cover all of the questions and a selection of the best answers – stay tuned!<\/p>\n

\"Can<\/a>
Thanks for all your help – You guys are WordPress rockstars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today’s WordPress Question<\/h2>\n

This one comes to us from a WPMU reader named Khris, who operates the website DIY Bride<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How do I tame my media library? Whenever an image is added to a post, multiple thumbnail sizes of the image are generated by WordPress. Since I don’t use most of those sizes with my theme, there are quite literally thousands of orphaned images taking up space on my server. (It’s an image-heavy site.)<\/p>\n

I’m running 3.2.1 and want to upgrade to 3.3 without import timeouts or failed memory fatal errors. I’ve seen a plugin called DUI mentioned in many posts; it doesn’t work with 3.2.1 (at least my install) and I’ve not yet found another other way to do this, beyond manually deleting the files.<\/p>\n

Does anyone know a way to automatically get rid of these multiple image sizes, or stop WordPress from creating them in the first place?<\/p>\n

-Khris<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s get some solutions!<\/h2>\n

If you can offer Khris any insight on this WordPress dilemma, please leave a comment below this article and tell us what you think. We want to see the smartest ideas that you WordPress folk can muster, and we’ll be publishing the best answers here on the blog next week. Show us your skills!
\n<\/p>\n

Image credit: Audience Cheering<\/a> from Bigstockphoto.<\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can any of you fine folk shed some light on this WordPress issue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7007,"featured_media":66935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4161],"tags":[641,1067,709],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-66917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wpmudev","tag-free-themes","tag-membership","tag-premium-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216674,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66917\/revisions\/216674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66917"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=66917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}