WordPress plugin comparison

Custom Thumbnail Generator vs Force Regenerate Thumbnails

Custom Thumbnail Generator

by Subrata Sarkar

20+ installs5.0

Force Regenerate Thumbnails

by Shane Bishop

200K+ installs4.7

At a glance

Force Regenerate Thumbnails has more active installs: 200K+, against 20+ for Custom Thumbnail Generator.
On a typical day, Force Regenerate Thumbnails is downloaded about 689 times, Custom Thumbnail Generator about 2.
Custom Thumbnail Generator is rated higher: 5.0 out of 5 from 7 reviews, against 4.7 from 186 reviews.
Custom Thumbnail Generator was updated more recently: Nov 9, 2026, against Feb 17, 2026 for Force Regenerate Thumbnails.
Custom Thumbnail Generator is tested with a newer WordPress: 7.1.4, against 6.9.11 for Force Regenerate Thumbnails.
Force Regenerate Thumbnails has been around longer: since 2012, against 2025 for Custom Thumbnail Generator.

Force Regenerate Thumbnails leads on 4 of 7 comparable lines.

Metric	Custom Thumbnail Generator	Force Regenerate Thumbnails
Popular rank	#27,740	#230
Active installs	20+	200K+
Downloads, last 30 days	73	20.6K
Rating	5.0(7)	4.7(186)
Support threads resolved	–	0%
Tested up to	7.1.4	6.9.11
Search multiplier	×0.24	×0.92
Last release	1 day ago	8 months ago
Requires PHP	7.0	7.4

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