Best regenerate plugins for WordPress
The most popular regenerate plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. ImageMagick Engine leads with 60K+ active installs, ahead of Perfect Images (60K+) and AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild (30K+). All 14 plugins tagged “regenerate” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 regenerate plugins
- 1.
ImageMagick EngineThe most installed regenerate plugin, with 60K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 16 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Perfect Images60K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 279 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 3.
AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild30K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 90 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 4.
Image Regenerate & Select Crop7K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 58 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
OTF Regenerate Thumbnails4K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 19 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 6.
ONet Regenerate Thumbnails1K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 11 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 7.
Real Thumbnail Generator1K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 15 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
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Media Meta & Force Regenerate200+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 9.
MCRPD Regenerate Download Permissions for woocommerce80+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Regenerate Thumbnails HTML30+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
All 14 plugins tagged “regenerate”
ImageMagick Engine
Up in the last 7 days:2#648by Rickard Westerlind2 months ago
Improve the quality of re-sized images by replacing standard GD library with ImageMagick.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.4(16)
- Downloads
- 465/day
Perfect Images
Down in the last 7 days:2#663by Jordy Meow6 days ago
Optimize image sizes, regenerate thumbnails, enable retina, convert to WebP/AVIF, or use cloud optimization. An essential image toolkit.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.8(279)
- Downloads
- 840/day
AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,040by junkcoder1 month ago
Rebuild your media library one image at a time, without script timeouts - and optimise, replace, or write WebP and AVIF copies of your images.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(90)
- Downloads
- 203/day
Image Regenerate & Select Crop
Down in the last 7 days:7#2,480by Iulia Cazan1 month ago
Advanced management for images, register new sub-sizes, sub-sizes details, regenerate and cleanup files.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.7(58)
- Downloads
- 60/day
OTF Regenerate Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:13#3,418by Benjamin Intal9 years ago
Automatically regenerates your thumbnails on the fly when thumbnail sizes change.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.6(19)
- Downloads
- 15/day
ONet Regenerate Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:8#5,662by Konrád Koller9 years ago
Fix missing thumbnails in no time with few easy clicks. The plugin does the hard work.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Real Thumbnail Generator
Down in the last 7 days:38#6,204by devowl.io GmbH1 month ago
Real Thumbnail Generator is a WordPress plugin for regenerating thumbnails. It is beginner-friendly, SEO-optimised and GDPR-compliant.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.7(15)
- Downloads
- 28/day
Media Meta & Force Regenerate
Up in the last 7 days:24#12,668by Jordy Meow6 years ago
Displays the metadata information in the Media Library. Regenerates the metadata and thumbnails even if they exist.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
MCRPD Regenerate Download Permissions for woocommerce
Up in the last 7 days:242#17,878by Cristian Leguizamón2 months ago
Regenerate downloadable permissions for orders in batches via AJAX.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Regenerate Thumbnails HTML
Down in the last 7 days:395#25,125by Jordy Meow9 years ago
Update the HTML of the images contained in the post from one image size to another. Useful when switching between sizes and themes.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Selective Thumbnail Regenerator
Down in the last 7 days:2,838#26,531by Adi Glibanović3 months ago
Regenerate thumbnails selectively by upload date and search filters with full history calendar, performance throttle, and fail-safe recovery.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Generate Thumbnail
#27,139by Theme Egg8 years ago
Generate Thumbnail allows you to generate all thumbnails at once without script timeouts on your server.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Thumbnail Generator
Up in the last 7 days:557#27,697by Subrata Sarkar1 month ago
Custom Thumbnail Generator manages image sizes via an AJAX interface. It decouples sizes from themes, ensuring they persist and remain functional.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Thumbnails like in Drupal
Down in the last 7 days:469#32,061by stasionok3 years ago
Wordpress implementation/fork of Drupal imagecache module.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day