Thread:Project:Support desk/How to use only small images from commons.wikimedia.org?/reply

You can set cache-time to, then thumbnail will not be stored on your server but links from Commons directly.

Check for the settings behind this. Then remove  from your LocalSettings file and instead add the entry for   (values for this can be copied directly from Manual:$wgUseInstantCommons). Then set  to.

Example: