{"id":1173108,"date":"2016-10-06T00:35:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T07:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/best-way-to-clear-up-oldexpired-event-images\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T00:35:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T07:35:26","slug":"best-way-to-clear-up-oldexpired-event-images","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/best-way-to-clear-up-oldexpired-event-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Best way to clear up old\/expired Event images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I was wondering what the best way to clear up old images. I have a calendar running that will be filling up fast and may end up having several hundred events on. This is fantastic, but what happens is when they expire the image stays in my media and will slowly fill up.<br \/>\nI do have image compression but it would be sweet to be able to delete these images that are no longer used.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t see if this happens automagically so assume it doesn&#8217;t. Therefore, is there a way to do this ?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to get a year down the line and find my media folder is several gigs and slowing the website down.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1173108","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Best way to clear up old\/expired Event images -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/best-way-to-clear-up-oldexpired-event-images\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best way to clear up old\/expired Event images -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello, I was wondering what the best way to clear up old images. 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