Media storage full 😱

Hi everyone. I have a quick question to ask and I know this is a good place to find the answer. My media storage of 6g has now reached full capacity. Do you know if we can purchase more storage rather than deleting from my media library? I don’t want to delete my images and affect my previous blog posts. I also don’t have the time or patience to change all my old images to a smaller size. I have been reducing the size of my images for the past few months and that has really helped but I know my old posts take up a lot of memory.

What do you think? If it was cheap to purchase more storage, then I think I would prefer to do that. Or do you think I should simply delete old posts?

Many thanks in advance,

Wayne

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  1. Hah. I am the cheapskate that always takes the free sight. I also post a lot of photos, so this has been bugging me for 9 years now. 3 Gigs was the start for the free site. and I filled about 6 of those in 6 years. I reduced my full format photos to about 500 Kb. Then, I started a site as a place to post excerpt posts with only 1 photo and kept building 2nd sites to link to. Then WordPress saw right through that and dropped media storage to 1 Gig. No worries, more frequent full new site creation. The trouble with a paid plan is that if you ever stop paying, you lose access to your sites.

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  2. https://wordpress.com/support/space-upgrade/ … which they do a lot of. The only other thing that occurred to me is what size pictures? See you already have comments seems on both aspects. Hope something works out. They have storage ad ons in the write up. Sorry, I didn’t go into how that differs or if there is less charge or more. At least it gives you options. Resize pictures…is that a possibility to get it to work? Good luck. I enjoy your posts.

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  3. They’ll fall over themselves to sell you a bigger plan (the one higher than Personal, is it Premium?) but jeez, buddy, 6gb is an awful lot, whad’ya do with it all? I’ve been blogging since 2017 and used 10% of mine.

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    1. Hahaha I do use a lot of photos. I don’t want to pay anymore than what I’m paying so I think deleting old posts is the way to go. I’ve only recently started making my images smaller too so that was my ignorance from the beginning.

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      1. I have very occasionally ported full=res photos, which can be several MB – just where I wanted people to see the original detail. But for the purposes of WordPress. I can shrink them down to maybe a hundred kB. My photo package will do this easily for me. Aftershot. It’ll turm NEFFS (or whatever Canon use) into jpegs.

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      3. It really is good, especially with raw files. I’m sure lots of them do it but mine is specifically aimed at when you have batches of photos. So each one is quick. You can fix colour, straighten, watermark etc, all the quick fixes you need. I still use it sometimes even though I’m restricted to taking photos with my phone these days.

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    1. Thanks Hugh. I think I have learned most of these tips from you previously which was a great help. I just feel sad if I have to delete old posts but it’s either that or pay more money and I already feel that WordPress makes a lot of money from us.

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      1. Deleting old posts can help your blog, Wayne. But if you delete them, remember to delete the images from your media library too. Deleting old posts does not delete any images from your media library.

        If you enjoy blogging (and I think you do), I don’t see why paying to upgrade your plan is a problem, other than if it gets you into any debt. In the past, I’ve asked for money from family for birthdays or Christmas to help pay for my WordPress plan. However, only upgrade if you know you’ll fully use the upgrade, and there is no doubt that you’ll stop blogging before the plan comes up for renewal.

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      3. Yes, it’ll do the trick. I’d advise you to delete the photos from your media library first because you can search for photos and images via the date they were published on a post. Then delete the post. That way, you’ll know you’ve deleted the images.

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