Best resize plugins for WordPress
The most popular resize plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. EWWW Image Optimizer leads with 1M+ active installs, ahead of ShortPixel Image Optimizer (300K+) and Imsanity (200K+). All 65 plugins tagged “resize” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 resize plugins
- 1.
EWWW Image OptimizerThe most installed resize plugin, with 1M+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 1,845 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
ShortPixel Image Optimizer300K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 830 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 3.Imsanity
200K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 291 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Resize Image After Upload80K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 56 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Advanced iFrame40K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 54 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 6.
Cloudinary5K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 64 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.
WP SmartCrop4K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 9 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 8.
OTF Regenerate Thumbnails4K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 19 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 9.
Auto iFrame3K+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 18 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 10.Resize images before upload
1K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 22 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.
All 65 plugins tagged “resize”

EWWW Image Optimizer
Up in the last 7 days:1#59by Shane Bishop9 days ago
Comprehensive image optimization with WebP, AVIF, Lazy Load, and more. Optimize images automatically for Faster Sites and Happy Visitors.
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.8(1.8K)
- Downloads
- 15K/day

ShortPixel Image Optimizer
#193by ShortPixel25 days ago
Compress images & PDFs automatically, convert to WebP & AVIF, and generate SEO-friendly filenames with AI. Bulk optimization, smart crop & resize.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 4.5(830)
- Downloads
- 2.8K/day
Imsanity
#225by Shane Bishop2 months ago
Automatically resizes huge image uploads. Are contributors uploading huge photos? Tired of manually resizing your images? Imsanity to the rescue!
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.9(291)
- Downloads
- 1.2K/day

Resize Image After Upload
Up in the last 7 days:4#526by ShortPixel2 months ago
Automatically resize your images after uploading using this plugin. Specify height&width, the plugin will do the rest quickly and transparently.
- Installs
- 80K+
- Rating
- 4.8(56)
- Downloads
- 173/day

Advanced iFrame
Up in the last 7 days:2#851by mdempfle6 days ago
Include content the way YOU like in an iframe that can hide and modify elements, does auto-height, forward parameters and does many, many more...
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.4(54)
- Downloads
- 417/day

Cloudinary
Down in the last 7 days:19#3,225by Cloudinary1 month ago
Boost the performance of your WordPress site by optimizing your images and videos with the Cloudinary WordPress Plugin. WordPress developers, content …
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.0(64)
- Downloads
- 176/day

WP SmartCrop
#3,268by Bytes.co2 years ago
WP SmartCrop will crop your images on-the-fly to match your CSS, keeping the main focal point in view.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 3.7(9)
- Downloads
- 119/day

OTF Regenerate Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:13#3,419by Benjamin Intal9 years ago
Automatically regenerates your thumbnails on the fly when thumbnail sizes change.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.6(19)
- Downloads
- 16/day

Auto iFrame
Up in the last 7 days:4#3,783by Greg Ross1 year ago
A quick and easy shortcode to embed iframe's that resize to the content of the remote site.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 3.6(18)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Resize images before upload
Down in the last 7 days:28#6,373by WPsites9 years ago
Automatically resizes your images right in your browser, before uploading.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(22)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Image Optimizer, Resizer and CDN
Down in the last 7 days:23#6,988by Sirv CDN and Image Hosting8 days ago
Serve perfectly optimized images, videos, models and 360 spins. The best WordPress & WooCommerce CDN plugin for media.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.9(265)
- Downloads
- 96/day

Swifty Image Widget
Up in the last 7 days:41#7,124by Goran873 years ago
Super simple but powerful widget that allows adding single or multiple images to your widget positions, using native media uploader.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 6/day

WPSSO Tune WP Image Editors
Up in the last 7 days:18#7,461by JS Morisset10 days ago
Improves the appearance of WordPress images for better click through rates from social and search sites.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WPThumb
Down in the last 7 days:1#7,550by Joe Hoyle12 years ago
An on-demand image generation replacement for WordPress' image resizing.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Easy Font Resize
Down in the last 7 days:14#7,981by ziher43 years ago
Allow your visitors to increase or decrease font size of the "main" section of your website.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Webp Transformer
#11,172by Informatiza2 years ago
Convert images from library to webp and resize them during upload
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Resize Post Thumbnails
Up in the last 7 days:44#15,519by Alexandru Vornicescu9 years ago
This plugin will resize post thumbnails on the fly.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Resize on Upload
Down in the last 7 days:3#15,520by linal17 years ago
Provides the ability to set a maximum width or height an uploaded image can be, if the image is larger then it is resized.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Hotspot
Up in the last 7 days:215#17,364by Jonathan Bardo10 years ago
Image hotspot helps you control how WordPress generates the various image size in your site.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

CropRefine
#17,416by ERA4045 years ago
Giving you greater control over how each of your media item sizes are cropped.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Replace Content Image Size
Up in the last 7 days:10#17,649by Pau Iglesias11 years ago
Find images displayed in posts content and change the format size, very useful when you change the blog theme.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 3/day
wpTextResize
Up in the last 7 days:109#17,757by Brad Parbs14 years ago
wpTextResize is an easy to use way to have Increase, Decrease, reset font size controls for body text on a WordPress site.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
AutoThumb
Down in the last 7 days:15#18,037by maff14 years ago
The plugin is actually just a port of a plugin/snippet I wrote for MODx a while ago (see here). It scans your content's source code for <img&g …
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Crop and Resize Images
Down in the last 7 days:205#18,759by bo.lipai11 years ago
Crop and Resize Images Plugin allows you to easily modify WordPress uploaded images.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
NextGEN
Down in the last 7 days:19#18,818by indefiniteloop16 years ago
NextGEN Resize is plugin that resizes your pictures, photos while they upload, on the fly depending on the options set using the NextGEN Resize contro …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Easy Image Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:121#19,219by Shane Bishop2 months ago
Easily speed up your website to increase conversions. Properly compress and size/scale images. Includes lazy load and WebP/AVIF auto-convert.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 9/day
JResizr
#19,518by jegbagus14 years ago
Resize with no crop and fill background color of the rest area
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Web Pixel Studio Image Compressor
Up in the last 7 days:324#20,715by WPS.sk5 months ago
Optimizes images on upload. Define max. size and select the types of images to convert to webp and what quality the optimized image should have.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Browser Resize Images
Up in the last 7 days:31#20,791by maniu14 years ago
Browser Resize Images
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
NextGEN
Down in the last 7 days:40#22,300by vogelundstrauss15 years ago
NextGEN Z Cropper is a plugin that resizes and crops(!) your pictures while uploading them (not only thumbnails!). If the picture does not match your …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Resize Images In Posts
Up in the last 7 days:23#22,902by Alexandru Vornicescu9 years ago
This plugin will resize images in your posts.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Image Widget
Up in the last 7 days:53#23,026by Rakesh Lawaju (Racase)11 years ago
A Simple WordPress image widget that uses the native WordPress media manager or custom image link to add image widgets to site.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SB Uploader
Down in the last 7 days:140#23,672by Sean Barton13 years ago
An easy, customer/user friendly way to upload images and attach them to your content. Optionally sets the featured image. Sometimes you just want to u …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
neo Optimize
Up in the last 7 days:161#24,208by neoWP Media Image Plugins5 days ago
Optimize your image SEO by serving images at the resolution they are displayed in the browser.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day
FWS On-Demand-Resizer
#24,352by Tekod lab.1 year ago
Smart on-demand image resizer for WordPress.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

NutsForPress Images and Media
Down in the last 7 days:142#24,575by Christian Gatti11 months ago
NutsForPress Images and Media is an essential tool for having your images and your meta in perfect order.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/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
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Resize Control
Down in the last 7 days:607#27,398by TuningWP1 year ago
Auto resize, optimize images; ensure compression for WP accounts to save time, speed, space, and bandwidth.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Just Image Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:263#30,543by Alex Prokopenko / JustCoded8 years ago
Just Image Optimizer uses Google Page Speed Insights API to compress image files, improve performance and boost your SEO rank.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Pixel Editor
Down in the last 7 days:274#30,743by Rafael Minuesa1 month ago
Edit images with an AI prompt, or crop, resize, rotate, flip, contrast and sharpen them inside the Media Library. Powered by ImageMagick.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Effects Generator
#32,209by tomsansome12 years ago
Generate image effects on upload.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ChoiceCuts Image Juggler
Down in the last 7 days:245#34,623by kestrel_id16 years ago
ChoiceCuts Image Juggler resizes images, generates thumbnails, adds lightboxes and enhances image presentation in WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multifile Upload
Up in the last 7 days:8,277#34,731by yoshi19 years ago
This plugin allows WP's upload interface to handle multiple files at a time. User can also change the original and thumbnail image sizes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
wp-imageresize
Down in the last 7 days:3,603#42,403by Francesco Bianco13 years ago
Manipulate images direct on template file
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

picowall
Up in the last 7 days:1,950#43,555by mhazami10 years ago
Resize images on the fly.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Secure Image Resizer
Down in the last 7 days:4,449#44,666by Greg - SiteOrigin14 years ago
A very simple and secure image resizer. It adds dynamic resizing so you don't need to regenerate thumbnails when you install a new theme.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ImageScaler Modded
Up in the last 7 days:995#44,741by Funnnny18 years ago
A plugin that automatic download and resize your images on Post when it larger than your width and height set on Option page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Croppy
Down in the last 7 days:807#45,276by SEADEV Studios GmbH1 year ago
🚀 Crop images like a pro in seconds with Croppy – your website's new secret weapon!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Flash Video Resizer
Down in the last 7 days:4,660#45,918by bernabauer15 years ago
Resize flash and HTML5 video to a specific size without having to edit HTML code.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Auto Image Resize
Down in the last 7 days:8,701#46,053by Kiminori Shimada - ?? ??14 years ago
Tool to resize the image appropriately
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day