Keeping it manageable.
MEDIA LIBRARIES
Grow quickly and become unnavigable. Thousands of images named IMG_4471 are impossible to search.
WHAT HELPS
Descriptive file names before uploading
Consistent naming: product-name-front.jpg
Deleting images you no longer use Alt text, which is also searchable in most media libraries
WHY IT MATTERS
Finding an image again Search visibility, since file names are a signal Disk and inode usage, which images consume faster than anything else
CLEANING UP
Unused media accumulates: images uploaded and never placed, old versions, duplicates.
Tools exist to identify unused media. Back up before deleting, since detection is imperfect.
DOCUMENTS
PDFs and files offered for download. Keep them organised and current; outdated documents circulate for years.
VERSIONS
Do not keep old versions of pages as drafts indefinitely. They clutter the system and occasionally get published by accident.
A ROUTINE
Once a year, review the media library and remove what is genuinely unused.
