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Supposing that we know nothing except the url of image (smaller size e.g. 150x150)

http://xxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/test-image-150x150.jpg

What is the best way to get its full-size image url from the url above?

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Just easily remove the prefix "-150x150" ? (I'm not sure if this is proper since i need best practice also.)

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  • Yes, that is correct :-)
    – Matt Royal
    Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 11:39
  • You can get the ID from the URL by using the method shown here. After you have the ID available you can use it get the information you want.
    – Nicolai Grossherr
    Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 12:15
  • @ialocin Thanks for suggestion. However, that seems over-complicated to me ;(
    – Atthapon Junpun-eak
    Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 15:26
  • @MattRoyal Hey, are you really ok with just removing "-150x150" suffix? lol
    – Atthapon Junpun-eak
    Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 15:27
  • @AtthaponJunpun-eak, seeing as though the URL is always appended using that convention, I have never had a problem with it ;-)
    – Matt Royal
    Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 15:57

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The URL for rezied images in WordPress is constructed in a way that's impossible to direct reverse. Therefore, it's impossible to get the attachment associated with a URL of a resized image with 100% certainty, unless you loop through all attachments and check whether their URL matches the given URL. However, this approach is very slow and resource-intensive.

In any normal WordPress setup, you can rest assured that, given a URL of a resized image, you can retrieve the full image URL by removing the dimensions from the URL. This is, however strange it may seem, best practice.

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  • Thanks for your explanation. This really confirms my thought about removing dimension suffix. Marked as answer though. ;)
    – Atthapon Junpun-eak
    Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 15:31

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