Nobody tells you this. You’re encouraged to install the famous wordpress CMS to have a modern website, with very few questions asked and no good orientation. Some settings, and then, “you can do that later” . . . Well, here we go.
Sure you can.
You can go to the toilet, do your business, and decide to flush it later. Perhaps you’ll go again, think that was a good idea, and again, leave the flush for later. But when “later” comes, you see it: a pile of waste, half-dry, sticking to the walls. You now have a deep, hard, and nasty cleaning job on your hands.
That is exactly how wordpress handles its image thumbnail management.
You can do it later. But when you finally decide to change your thumbnail sizes to fit your theme’s layout, those changes only apply to future uploads. The existing mess remains untouched. They’ve just drilled a hole through the old mess to let the new stuff through, while the old, putrid pile stays put, hardening and stinking more every day.
That is your “oh, crap” moment. You realize your site is getting slow, you start fiddling around with promising plugins, but everything just gets worse.
The truth is, most people just care about making their own pile without bothering with the existing mess in the hole. So the pile grows, and so does your frustration.
Most of the thumbnail tools out there make big promises without actually solving the problem. They might remove some useless thumbnails and run a database “fix,” which means correcting the postmeta table to point to the correct files.
But the problem hides much deeper.
The standard pattern is about three thumbnails per image. So, you upload one image and now have four on your disk. That’s where it begins. Then you think you need a theme to make your site look nice (another deceit) and it silently adds a dozen more thumbnails to the pile. In one step, you can multiply your mess tenfold. If you have 500 images, you now have a pile of 4,500 new ones, plus 1,500 old ones hanging around. Imagine if you had 5,000. Your pile gets beyond 20,000.
And the best part? It’s all totally unnecessary, as the visitor’s browser makes the final decision on which image it truly takes.
So, let’s clean up and remove the pile. That’s the worst thing you can do on your own. Your site will break, with no images showing up. But don’t worry, the originals are still there, and we’re here to help
The problem still has deeper roots. Look at your postmeta database table. You might find 80k or even 150k rows of useless data there. Imagine how long it takes to find a needle in a haystack that big. Got it? That’s the final blow—most tools don’t even touch the postmeta table.
But here we are. The “wpHakka Thumbnail Revivor” does it all, with brilliant performance solving the real problem. We grab the bull by the horns—the original images—and build a new, reliable base. We don’t just fiddle with the tail, like most do.
Our process is simple:
First, we purge. We remove all the old thumbnail sizes that have been hanging around since installation.
Second, we exclude. We identify and remove any “orphans,” which are thumbnails not registered in the postmeta table and are completely useless.
Third, we regenerate. We perform a final cleanup, removing registered thumbnails with the wrong quality, then we fix the postmeta table. Finally, we regenerate all the desired sizes that you’ve selected, fixing the database one last time.
Guess what? Open your site in any browser and it pops up, just like that. All the problems are gone.
Commercial talk?
No, it isn’t. We didn’t create this plugin for sale; we created it to fix our own sites and help others. While we eventually attend to people’s needs and sell the package for a ridiculous amount, it’s just way too cheap for what it does
Think about it. Want to challenge us? You’re welcome.
We’ll refund you without any questions asked if you can show us that our promise was false, incomplete, or exaggerated. But that would be hard, because we don’t promise hot air. We promise a real solution, and that is what we deliver. [ using small letters here is just for fun ]
peace!
H.Mich
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