Images doubling in WordPress Media storage

Modified on Thu, 10 Oct, 2019 at 9:49 AM

When Valigara updates a product on WooCommerce, product images are uploaded again to WordPress Media storage. Old images are not deleted, they double in Media storage. 


This is a well-known Wordpress/WooCommerce behavior. According to nature of WP/Woo,  images are uploaded to Media gallery, and after it are attached to some entity (product/post etc.) . Valigara has no possibility to do something with previous images. There are several WordPress plugins that remove unattached media. 


To reduce media gallery duplicates, specific logic is implemented in Valigara:

- on product revise, Valigara checks if product images have changed from the last/post revise. Only if they have, Valigara uploads the new images to WC, and existing images in the product are replaced by new images. 

- Valigara stores relations between Valigara images to WooCommerce images.  On revise Valigara submits relation info and not image url. 

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