WordPress plugin comparison

Category Thumbnail Excerpt vs Force Regenerate Thumbnails

Category Thumbnail Excerpt

by Ajit Kumar Satpathy

10+ installs

Force Regenerate Thumbnails

by Shane Bishop

200K+ installs4.7

At a glance

Force Regenerate Thumbnails has more active installs: 200K+, against 10+ for Category Thumbnail Excerpt.
On a typical day, Force Regenerate Thumbnails is downloaded about 666 times, Category Thumbnail Excerpt about 1.
Category Thumbnail Excerpt has no reviews yet.
Force Regenerate Thumbnails was updated more recently: Feb 17, 2026, against Sep 9, 2014 for Category Thumbnail Excerpt.
Force Regenerate Thumbnails is tested with a newer WordPress: 6.9.11, against 4.0.38 for Category Thumbnail Excerpt.
Force Regenerate Thumbnails has been around longer: since 2012, against 2014 for Category Thumbnail Excerpt.

Force Regenerate Thumbnails leads on 6 of 6 comparable lines.

Metric	Category Thumbnail Excerpt	Force Regenerate Thumbnails
Popular rank	#45,195	#230
Active installs	10+	200K+
Downloads, last 30 days	29	20.7K
Rating	No ratings	4.7(186)
Support threads resolved	–	0%
Tested up to	4.0.38	6.9.11
Search multiplier	×0.00	×0.92
Last release	12 years ago	8 months ago
Requires PHP	–	7.4

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