如何清理您的WordPress媒体库（2种简单方法）

Do you want to clean up your WordPress media library? WordPress makes several copies of media files that up load, and over time this leads to a ton of files in storage that are not used anywhere on your website.

您是否要清理WordPress媒体库？ WordPress会制作几份上传的媒体文件副本，随着时间的流逝，这会导致大量存储文件在您的网站上未使用。

Cleaning up your WordPress media library saves disk space on your hosting server and reduces backup sizes (both of which will help you save cost).

清理WordPress媒体库可节省托管服务器上的磁盘空间，并减少备份大小(这两者都将帮助您节省成本)。

In this article, we will show you how to easily clean up your WordPress media library step by step.

在本文中，我们将逐步向您展示如何轻松清理WordPress媒体库。

为什么要清理WordPress媒体库？ (Why Clean Up WordPress Media Library?)

WordPress creates several copies of each image you upload to your website. WordPress themes and plugins may also request additional image sizes.

WordPress会为您上传到网站的每个图像创建多个副本。 WordPress主题和插件也可能要求其他图像尺寸 。

Apart from these image sizes, you may also end up uploading a ton of images that are not really used anywhere on your website.

除了这些图像尺寸之外，您还可能最终上传了大量网站上未真正使用的图像。

These media files take up disk space on your WordPress hosting server. They also increase your WordPress backup sizes, which means it takes longer to backup, transfer, and restore your website.

这些媒体文件占用了WordPress托管服务器上的磁盘空间。 它们还会增加您的WordPress备份大小，这意味着备份，传输和还原您的网站需要更长的时间。

If you have been running a WordPress website for some time, then you can benefit from cleaning up the WordPress media library.

如果您已经运行WordPress网站已有一段时间，那么可以从清理WordPress媒体库中受益。

That being said, let’s take a look at how to easily clean up the WordPress media library.

话虽如此，让我们看一下如何轻松清理WordPress媒体库。

For this tutorial, we will cover two different plugins, and you can choose the one that looks