Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#47583 closed feature request (duplicate)
Generate image thumbnails when needed, not immediately after uploading a new image
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 5.3 |
| Component: | Media | Keywords: | |
| Focuses: | performance | Cc: |
Description
WordPress currently generates all possible thumbnails for each image that is uploaded. Many of those thumbnails are not required, and are never used.
An improvement would be to generate each thumbnail when it is actually requested during a page load. This would avoid the generation of unwanted thumbnails, and save petabytes of disk storage in WordPress hosting plans the world over.
This has been discussed and attempted through code snippets and plugins but there is no solution that I can find today to achieve this easily. Plus, it is something that probably belongs in core.
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/53344/how-to-generate-thumbnails-when-needed-only
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Hi @Millionleaves, welcome to WordPress Trac!
Thanks for the ticket, we're already tracking this enhancement in #15311.