Grade C

Disable Media Sizes

Name: Disable Media Sizes
Rating: 5.0 (23 reviews)
Author: Jeff Starr

⤓ Download v2.5.1 on WordPress.org ↗

by Jeff Starrupdated 2026-04-17🎲The Mixed Bag

A tiny hero for your server storage and inode counts.

Growing

77/100

This lightweight utility effectively prevents unnecessary image generation to save server space.

Loved32/40

Trustworthy10/15

Fair & Honest15/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum12/12

Composite 87, adjusted to 77 (×0.88) for a low verified rating or signs of review manipulation.

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

Show the snippet

add_filter( 'intermediate_image_sizes_advanced', function( $sizes ) {
    unset(
        $sizes['thumbnail'],
        $sizes['medium'],
        $sizes['medium_large'],
        $sizes['large'],
        $sizes['1536x1536'],
        $sizes['2048x2048']
    );
    return $sizes;
} );

// Prevent WordPress from scaling down large originals.
add_filter( 'big_image_size_threshold', '__return_false' );

Keep in mind:Remove only the unset() lines for sizes you still want WordPress to generate.

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Active installs

~15,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+

→ on track for 20k+in ~7 months

Rating

5.0★

23 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+69%

Growing fast

29 → 49 installs/day

What to watch out for

MAJORnear-100% 5★ in bursty pattern

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Growing fast · +69% in the last year

29/day a year ago→49/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Disable Media Sizes is praised for its simplicity, space-saving impact, and reliable disabling of extra image sizes, though it receives little criticism.

What people like

+Simple and easy to set up, allowing users to install and forget it×7
+Reduces server storage and inode usage by preventing generation of extra image files×4
+Disables unnecessary image sizes generated by WordPress×4
+Lightweight with no added bloat to the site
+Provides granular control over image sizes without custom code×2
+Works reliably and does exactly what it promises×3

Common complaints

Review trustMostly organic

5.00★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 5.00★
9%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
100%5★ concentration — near-perfect across only 23 reviews — not yet a proven track record

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 23 total

5★

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 23 analyzed

2026-03-27★★★★★Works like a charming man!tinaponting
2025-06-25★★★★★Saves a ton of inodes Briosh
2025-01-20★★★★★Great!milka21
2024-10-06★★★★★Install it and forget it exists—perfect.cbaile19
2024-05-23★★★★★Perfect fabiolw1-shot
2024-02-09★★★★★Great!freischuetz
2023-11-12★★★★★Perfect Gizmo
2023-11-04★★★★★good idea! good plugin!arcticblue
2023-03-20★★★★★Limits Image Sizes!Curtis
2022-05-04★★★★★A MUST HAVE Suki

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-04-17v2.5.1
2026-03-27v2.5
2025-11-13v2.4
2025-03-20v2.3
2024-10-05v2.2
2024-06-20v2.1
2024-02-28v2.0
2023-10-20v1.9

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

171

Mean release-day peak (30d)

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

-25.8%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

25%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

2.00

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

100%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

—

Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

5.00 → 5.00★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered