Best thumbnail plugins for WordPress
The most popular thumbnail plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Regenerate Thumbnails leads with 1M+ active installs, ahead of Force Regenerate Thumbnails (200K+) and Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages (30K+). All 169 plugins tagged “thumbnail” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 thumbnail plugins
- 1.
Regenerate ThumbnailsThe most installed thumbnail plugin, with 1M+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 396 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.
Force Regenerate Thumbnails200K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 186 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages
30K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 38 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild
30K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 90 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
XO Featured Image Tools20K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 21 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 6.Videopack
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 63 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 7.
Kama Thumbnail8K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 15 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 8.
Manual Image Crop7K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 56 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.
Get the Image7K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 17 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 10.Easy Add Thumbnail
7K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 52 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
All 169 plugins tagged “thumbnail”

Regenerate Thumbnails
#64by Alex Mills1 year ago
Regenerate the thumbnails for one or more of your image uploads. Useful when changing their sizes or your theme.
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.6(396)
- Downloads
- 2.7K/day

Force Regenerate Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:1#230by Shane Bishop8 months ago
Delete and REALLY force thumbnail regeneration.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.7(186)
- Downloads
- 709/day
Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,004by cyrillbolliger6 months ago
Easily control whether the featured image appears in the single post or page view (doesn't hide it in archive/list view).
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(38)
- Downloads
- 108/day
AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,041by 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
- 204/day

XO Featured Image Tools
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,081by ishitaka11 months ago
Automatically generate the featured image from the image of the post.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.7(21)
- Downloads
- 117/day
Videopack
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,797by Kyle Gilman26 days ago
Makes video thumbnails, allows resolution switching, and embeds responsive self-hosted videos and galleries.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(63)
- Downloads
- 107/day

Kama Thumbnail
Down in the last 7 days:11#2,355by Timur Kamaev23 days ago
Creates post thumbnails on fly and cache the result. Auto-create of post thumbnails based on: WP post thumbnail OR first img in post content OR attach …
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 59/day

Manual Image Crop
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,485by Tomasz Sita2 months ago
Plugin allows you to manually crop all the image sizes registered in your WordPress theme (in particular featured image).
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.1(56)
- Downloads
- 66/day

Get the Image
Up in the last 7 days:7#2,517by Justin Tadlock9 years ago
An easy-to-use image script for adding things such as thumbnail, slider, gallery, and feature images.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.3(17)
- Downloads
- 39/day
Easy Add Thumbnail
Down in the last 7 days:8#2,667by Samuel Aguilera3 years ago
Automatically sets the featured image to the first image uploaded into the post (any post type with thumbnail support). So easy like that...
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.5(52)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Generate Images (AI)
Down in the last 7 days:17#3,162by Alexandre Gaboriau2 days ago
Generate featured images from Bing, GPT Image, Unsplash and more. Automatic, bulk or Gutenberg — based on your post title.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.3(25)
- Downloads
- 95/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

Thumbnail Upscale
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,744by Stanislav Khromov9 years ago
Enables upscaling of thumbnails for small media attachments
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(22)
- Downloads
- 16/day
Taxonomy Thumbnail
Down in the last 7 days:16#3,849by Grégory Viguier10 years ago
Add a thumbnail to your taxonomy terms.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 20/day

Gallery with thumbnail slider
Up in the last 7 days:8#3,926by Galaxy Weblinks5 months ago
Highly customizable gallery plugin with sliders, lightbox, vertical gallery, and batch image upload for WordPress.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 3.8(9)
- Downloads
- 25/day
Better REST API Featured Images
Down in the last 7 days:8#4,455by Braad10 years ago
Adds a top-level field with featured image data including available sizes and URLs to the post object returned by the REST API.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 27/day

RSS Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:18#4,617by Jordy Meow3 years ago
Add the featured image into your RSS feed (in the media:content). Works nicely with Mailchimp (|RSSITEM:IMAGE|). Light and simple, no options, no clut …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(23)
- Downloads
- 11/day
PDF Thumbnail Generator
Down in the last 7 days:19#4,652by kubiq11 months ago
Generates thumbnail for PDF files
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Thumbnail Crop Position
#4,831by PoseLab9 years ago
Select the crop position of your thumbnails.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.8(16)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Feed Post Thumbnail
Down in the last 7 days:16#5,160by required1 month ago
Adds MRSS namespace to the feed and uses post-thumbnail as media element in the feed. Settings available under Settings -> Reading.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Fix Media Library
Down in the last 7 days:20#5,345by wowpress.host8 years ago
Fix Media Library inconsistency between database and wp-content/uploads folder contents. Unused image files, broken media library entries, missing att …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(32)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Remove Featured Image
Up in the last 7 days:5#5,566by chatthasumit8 years ago
To show/hide/remove featured images on individual posts or from all posts.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.4(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Like Thumbnail
Down in the last 7 days:1#5,614by Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)7 years ago
Plugin for specifying context specific images to be used as thumbnail for links liked/shared on Facebook.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 12/day
ONet Regenerate Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:14#5,660by 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
- 12/day
upPrev
Down in the last 7 days:18#6,004by iworks (Marcin Pietrzak)1 month ago
Display cool, animated fly-out or fade box with related content.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(126)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Real Thumbnail Generator
Down in the last 7 days:39#6,208by 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
- 38/day
Sharpen Resized Images
Down in the last 7 days:19#6,379by 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
PDF Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:46#6,478by stianlik10 years ago
This plugin generates a thumbnail everytime you upload a PDF attachment. Generated thumbnail is an image of the first page in uploaded document.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Featured Image Zoom
Down in the last 7 days:5#7,173by cubecolour1 year ago
Add a [zoom] shortcode to display a zoomable featured image.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.5(11)
- 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
WP Resized Image Quality
Up in the last 7 days:3#7,592by Mike Bijon9 years ago
Get better uploaded quality or save bandwidth: Change the JPEG compression-level of uploaded images and thumbnails.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.4(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Storefront Blog Excerpts
Up in the last 7 days:16#7,837by wooassist2 years ago
Change the post content area on your archive pages to show the excerpt instead of the full content.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Thumbnail Editor
Down in the last 7 days:47#8,539by aviplugins.com3 months ago
Manually Crop and Resize thumbnail images that are uploaded in the Media section.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.0(5)
- Downloads
- 13/day
Easy YouTube Gallery
Up in the last 7 days:22#9,081by Aleksandar Urošević1 year ago
Quick and easy make gallery for custom set of YouTube videos provided in shortcode, and autoplay video on click in Magnific PopUp lightbox.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Add post thumbnail to wp-admin list view
Down in the last 7 days:25#9,348by Mark Howells-Mead11 months ago
Adds a new column to the WordPress admin post list view, containing a preview of the post's featured image (where available).
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day
RSS Chimp
Up in the last 7 days:2#9,382by kerosindigital7 days ago
Add featured images to WordPress RSS feeds for Mailchimp newsletters and RSS readers. Includes image sizes and optional enclosure tags.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Category Featured Images Extended
Up in the last 7 days:12#9,733by CK MacLeod9 years ago
Set images for categories and tags, especially for fallback post thumbnails or featured images.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.4(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Setup Default Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:11#9,736by theme funda3 months ago
Automatically set a default featured image for all WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types — no more missing thumbnails, ever.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day
PDF Thumbnails Support Test
Down in the last 7 days:17#10,254by eclev918 years ago
Determine if your server is missing software for WordPress 4.7's native PDF thumbnail generator.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Featured Post with thumbnail
#10,294by Giustino Borzacchiello14 years ago
A really simple way of putting featured posts on your website.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Max Image Size Control
Up in the last 7 days:15#10,935by Hiroaki Miyashita7 years ago
This plugin adds the functionality to change the max image size each category and post.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Embed Video Thumbnail
#11,428by ikanaweb6 years ago
Automatically replace embed videos everywhere with their thumbnail to reduce page load time and improve your GTmetrix score.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.0(13)
- Downloads
- 6/day
bbPress Topic Thumbnails
Up in the last 7 days:50#11,488by Shane Gowland13 years ago
Provides bbPress with support for topic thumbnails.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Thumbnail List
Down in the last 7 days:10#11,497by Johan Jonk Stenström2 years ago
Lists categories, author pages and archives with thumbnails. Use shortcode [categorythumbnaillist 1] where 1 is the category id.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP Crop Stop
Down in the last 7 days:41#11,856by EviLex7 years ago
Just stop cropping images.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Rapls PDF Image Creator
Up in the last 7 days:343#13,290by rapls22 days ago
Turns PDFs into images. Refuses to save a blank thumbnail, works around a Ghostscript fault that makes one, and tells you what to ask your host.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 17/day

Freundschaft Default Featured Images
Down in the last 7 days:20#14,129by Freundschaft9 months ago
Set a global default featured image and category-specific fallbacks with priority ordering.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Post Avatar
Down in the last 7 days:28#14,201by Vicky Arulsingam8 years ago
Choose an avatar from a pre-defined list to include in a post.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

EV Widget Post
Down in the last 7 days:121#14,701by eveevans10 years ago
Widget for showing posts from a Category. You can easily configurate how to display it.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Admin Featured Thumbnail
Down in the last 7 days:131#15,516by wphigh11 years ago
Add post thumbnails to admin list of posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day