How to disable WordPress from creating thumbnails?

To built on Max Yudin’s answer you should use the intermediate_image_sizes_advanced filter, and not image_size_names_choose. Add to functions.php function add_image_insert_override($sizes){ unset( $sizes[‘thumbnail’]); unset( $sizes[‘medium’]); unset( $sizes[‘large’]); return $sizes; } add_filter(‘intermediate_image_sizes_advanced’, ‘add_image_insert_override’ ); Another easier option I think works is going to your Settings–>Media and setting each box for width and height to 0

How to Require a Minimum Image Dimension for Uploading?

Add this code to your theme’s functions.php file, and it will limit minimum image dimentions add_filter(‘wp_handle_upload_prefilter’,’tc_handle_upload_prefilter’); function tc_handle_upload_prefilter($file) { $img=getimagesize($file[‘tmp_name’]); $minimum = array(‘width’ => ‘640’, ‘height’ => ‘480’); $width= $img[0]; $height =$img[1]; if ($width < $minimum[‘width’] ) return array(“error”=>”Image dimensions are too small. Minimum width is {$minimum[‘width’]}px. Uploaded image width is $width px”); elseif ($height … Read more

wp.media.view.ImageDetails – Save settings as HTML5 data-* attributes for image

A way to do it is to use the (very convenient) editor:image-edit and editor:image-update events triggered by the tinymce wpeditimage plugin to get/set the dom directly (updated to wrap in wp_enqueue_media action): add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_media’, function () { add_action( ‘admin_footer’, function () { ?> <script type=”text/javascript”> jQuery(function ($) { if (wp && wp.media && wp.media.events) { … Read more

How to generate thumbnails when needed only?

Take a look at Otto’s Dynamic Image Resizer plugin This plugin changes the way WordPress creates images to make it generate the images only when they are actually used somewhere, on the fly. Images created thusly will be saved in the normal upload directories, for later fast sending by the webserver. The result is that … Read more

Is it possible set a featured image with external image URL

Yes, it’s possible and pretty easy. This is the workflow I suggest: Put somewhere a UI to insert the URL of the featured image. Probably best choice is to use ‘admin_post_thumbnail_html’ filter hook Use ‘save_post’ action hook to save the URL (after security and validation routine) in a custom post meta Use ‘post_thumbnail_html’ filter hook … Read more