Best sharpen plugins for WordPress
The most popular sharpen plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Sharpen Resized Images leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of ImageMagick Sharpen Resized Images (1K+) and WPSSO Tune WP Image Editors (800+). All 3 plugins tagged “sharpen” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 sharpen plugins
- 1.Sharpen Resized Images
The most installed sharpen plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 2.ImageMagick Sharpen Resized Images
1K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 12 reviews, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
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WPSSO Tune WP Image Editors800+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
All 3 plugins tagged “sharpen”
Sharpen Resized Images
Down in the last 7 days:11#6,383by Ünsal Korkmaz4 years ago
Do you realize your resized images looks blur? This plugin fixing it. Sharpening resized jpg image uploads in your WordPress.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
ImageMagick Sharpen Resized Images
Down in the last 7 days:44#6,599by HansVanEijsden9 years ago
Improve your images: Sharpens resized JPG image uploads via ImageMagick so it keeps quality, EXIF information, color profiles and crops.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.7(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WPSSO Tune WP Image Editors
Up in the last 7 days:14#7,455by JS Morisset11 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