WordPress has many default image sizes. When you upload an image on your website, it creates all the image sizes for your new upload and take more space on the server. Few of the default image sizes are unnecessary and they may also confuse your media configurations. It’s better to remove these image sizes permanently.
Instructions: Add the following code to the functions.php file of your WordPress theme.
update_option( 'thumbnail_size_h', 0 );
update_option( 'thumbnail_size_w', 0 );
update_option( 'medium_size_h', 0 );
update_option( 'medium_size_w', 0 );
update_option( 'large_size_h', 0 );
update_option( 'large_size_w', 0 );
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Sounds like this is a good way of saving space on your server. Thanks for sharing.
eh? this does what exactly? Does this mean no need for thumbnail regen?
Hi Elliott no this simply removes the default image sizes from being created.