Easy Image Sizes For WordPress is simple plugin that allows you to create number of different image sizes and them alongside the builtin ones.
When image get uploaded through WordPress, WordPress creates variations of said image at different sizes for use in different scenarios.
Upload the plugin files to the wp-content plugins easy-image-sizes directory, or install the plugin through WordPress plugins screen directly..
WordPress does have to generate each different image size when image is uploaded and having LOTS of custom sizes might impact performance...
The actual images will not be removed and they will still be available directly by using the img url, however they will not be in WordPress menus for inserting into posts.
I have been through ALL of in-ML image sizing plugins, trying to find one that will do for my client what I can do Photoshop.
This is the closest to what I was wanting something that will generate multiple custom image sizes for specific uses on the site ( for free, none of this credits.
I used Easy Image Sizes to define custom thumbnail size that matched my theme, then used another plugin to force the re-generation of all thumbnails, finally I changed the default thumbnail size in my theme to use the new custom size — it all worked and now I'm sending images in the exact size that they are displayed, rather than scaling them down HTML...
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Feature Added image dimensions and whether cropped or not to the admin columns in the image sizes list.
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