How to Clean Up the Uploads Folder of Image Heavy WordPress Websites

• Go to settings – media and set all sizes of those you dont need to 0 (zero) to diasable them.
• If you use a theme like „Total“ disable the additional image sizes option since you only want the native original ones.
• Install the „Force Regenerate Thumbnails“ plugin since this is the only one which also deletes the files  for the now unnecessary image sizes.

Force Regenerate Thumbnails

• If you want more, now head over to your functions.php fiel and add this line of code to also remove the new wordpress core hidden image size 768px (read more)

add_filter( 'intermediate_image_sizes', '__return_empty_array', 999 );

• Now finally go to „Tools“ – „Force Regenerate Thumbnails“ and regenerate everything.
• Afterwards I would recommend to now also further comporess the remaining images with a plugin like „EWWW Image Optimizer“

EWWW Image Optimizer

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