WP Recommended way to reduce and optimize media library

  • TerryMiddleton

    (@terrymiddleton)


    2 years ago

    Is there a WordPress recommended way or practice for reducing and then optimizing a WP media library and database?

    We have content going back to 2014 and our media storage is approaching 1TB.

    Was wondering if there was a way to safely reduce and maybe archive our content, but still have it available?

    Maybe a way to find all media files not being used in content, or duplicates where the duplicates are not being used?

    Thoughts?

    Terry

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  • chasingzen

    (@chasingzen)

    2 years ago

    I haven’t used this plugin personally, but it does look like it fits the bill for the task of finding and eliminating duplicates: Media DeDuper

    For optimizing images I like Smush, although WP-Optimize also does a nice job using the same API for the optimization. Smush would require the paid tier to optimize your existing media library, but the free version does optimize any media added going forward. I think WP-Optimize will allow you to batch optimize existing media files 50 at a time for free, although it sounds like with a media library as big as yours the time spent vs cost of premium for either plugin point to just paying.

    As a longer-term strategy, have you considered offloading your media files somewhere like AWS?

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