Deleting Unattached Images

ohyestheydidca · Member · Nov 15, 2017 at 11:06 pm
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I am wondering if we can delete “Unattached Images” from our media library to save space without affecting any of our posts?

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avydun · Member · Nov 16, 2017 at 2:45 am
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Hello,

This is possible. You will have to use the self-hosted WordPress dashboard and not the WordPress.com dashboard. Here’s how you can do that.

Open this page https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs and click on the title of the blog you referring to. This should open that particular blog’s WordPress dashboard. Click on Media > Library and you should see an option called Unattached in the first dropdown list. Choose that, bulk-select images and delete them.

I hope this helps. Feel free to get back if you have questions.
fstat · Staff · Nov 16, 2017 at 4:17 pm
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Hi there,

You can also do that via the standard dashboard by going to My Sites > Media. Select the images you want to delete and click the trash icon. Here’s a screenshot with all the steps:

http://cld.wthms.co/uS3YUF

If you have any other questions, just let me know and I’ll be happy to help.
ohyestheydidca · Member · Nov 17, 2017 at 1:29 am
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Thank you both for your replies. This won’t affect any of the pictures that are already in my posts?
timethief · Member · Nov 17, 2017 at 2:19 am
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No. They are unattached. If they had been embedded into posts or pages then they would be “attached”.

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