If you are like the majority of people that save images to their WordPress Media Library with the intention of only using it in the size they upload it, making the changes described on the previous page will help your overall website performance. Now when I upload images, WordPress does not duplicate them.
As seen in the above image you can see the differences in images from the Media Library that the EWWW Image Optimizer reduced. It optimized 3 sizes from images uploaded months ago with the default WordPress settings and now optimized only 1 size after my settings changes.
This easy little fix to the Media Library Image Sizes settings will save you a ton of space in unwanted image sizes on your website. And if you have an image optimizer like EWWW already installed, your one image uploaded will be further optimized as you save it, helping to keep your website speed efficient.
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That is an interesting problem you are having. Once you get that image fixed, let me know if having only one sized image instead of duplicates, makes a difference. I would like to know.
You will however probably have to do another fetch as Google of that particular post and wait a couple of days to see if the change in the image has fixed the problem or not.
Ralph
Also do the images added in the new Content feature take care of size automatically or do they need to be fixed too.
Thank you for this training, Robert. Wish I would have known this before I had so many images. :)
As for images already uploaded there are no up to date plugins I know of that will cleanup the unwanted image sizes in your media library.
So going back and deleting then uploading the image again will fix the issue, but could take some time depending on how many images you have.
For me this is a process I will take my time with because it is not something that needs to get done right away. This is more of a cleanup that can happen over the course of time.
As for all future images you upload, just upload images that are pre-optimized to a size close to how you will use it in your website.
Then if you have the EWWW Image Optimizer installed, or another similar plugin, the image you upload will be further optimized automatically before being saved in the media library.
Did I answer your questions enough?
Anyway, I'd like to add a well-known and recommended plugin to my current site as a test to see how it works in removing 2/3 (not actually of course) of my Library. I really don't care what happens to this site version as it will be replaced in a week or so.
