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  1. Cool to see a mention of my Media Grid plugin. One day I’ll find time to work on it again, and make it even better. For now, its purely a way to browse your media.

    1. At Matt’s suggestion on his blog post, I have uploaded your Media Grid Plugin. I am a plugin novice so I will have to let you know as time goes on how much I like it. I have great admiration and respect for anyone who can create a plugin. My background is in graphic design. So I am from way over on the other side of the brain! Thanks.

  2. Matt, thanks so much for the suggested Plugins. I am always having to deal with several of the issues you addresses. I’ve installed all the plugins and notice all but one is rater 5 stars. Cloudinary is rated 4 and a half while two other choices are rated 5. They are EWWW Image Optimizer and EWWW Image Optimizer Cloud. I am curious why you chose Cloudinary over either of the 5 star plugins.

    1. Hi Alison,

      Cloudinary serves a much broader purpose than EWWW Image Optimizer. Also, I only mentioned Cloudinary under the Miscellaneous section because I find them interesting and useful, but not necessary. Lastly, I personally think optimizing your image OUTSIDE of WordPress is far more effective than with a plugin like EWWW. You can read my post on that here: http://www.mattcromwell.com/optimizing-images-for-wordpress-like-a-pro-for-free/

      Thanks for chiming in, hope to see you around more!

  3. Matt, thanks for another useful post. I have one question:
    Is there a plugin that can be used for detecting images that are no longer used by your site? Whether it is for pages, posts or CPT, it would be useful to be able to find unused images that can then be deleted.

    1. Hi Amit. I believe Codepress Admin Columns will get you most of the way there. With this you can customize what information appears in the Admin Columns of the Media Library. Add a new column called “Attached to” (this is off the top of my head, you might have to dig a little) and it will show you what page/post that media item is attached to. The ones that say “Not attached” are not attached anywhere. Try it out: https://wordpress.org/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/

  4. A note about “Unattached” images. Custom header and background images, logos, images used in some slider and gallery plugins, and images for ads or sidebar promos will all show as Unattached. There is a standard column called ‘Uploaded to’ in the Media Library list showing this info.

    (Does admin Columns add something different?)

    Be careful before you do any bulk deleting.

  5. Hi, cool post.

    I’m working in an agency where we mainly develop WordPress and Drupal websites.

    When developing websites, a common need is that some “custom post types” have their own image sizes. (Imagine one post type with a specific header size) or a page that has a gallery with another required size.

    In these examples, it makes no sense to add these 2 custom sizes in WordPress because then all images in blog posts, or anywhere would be resized to these 2 images sizes. And on the other side, when uploading a full size picture for these 2 custom types, it makes no sense that WordPress generates a thumbail, medium and large image.

    In this matter, Drupal image sizes management is way better because it allows you to choose images sizes for specific content types or even a specific image in a specific content type.

    Do you have any solution to prevent WordPress to create custom sizes ? For instance when inserting an image with some specific ACF fields ?

    Thanks

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