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Hi guys. This is a total noob question but i noticed that on **//wp-content/uploads** there are full size images saved. Sizes 1MB – 15MB. This is crazy. If I erase this will images disappear from my website? And how do I prevent this from happening?
When I look at the images in WordPress dashboard they are only 200Kb – 500Kb in size which is kinda ok and I think a good balance between size and quality. Why then does WordPress also save the original??? Someone please help me. I am running a travel blog for my friend. And in just 5 posts she made, with a few photos, the size of the website has gone up tremendously on the server. I need to do something.
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How about uploading resized/optimized images first?
>*Can someone explain to me why WordPress stores original images*
There are 2 reasons for this:
1. WordPress stores the original so that if you ever change the thumbnail sizes (a lot of themes do), it’s able to regenerate the new sizes from the original images.
2. And often you’ll want to use the original image on your pages, rather than a thumbnails. In fact, if you’re uploading your images that have been properly resized and compressed, you will always want to be using the original image.