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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.

Installs aren’t everything: a recent release, a “Tested up to” that matches the current WordPress, and support threads that get resolved show a plugin is looked after. Open any plugin for its downloads, rank history and alternatives.

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Top 10 thumbnail plugins

  1. 1.
    Regenerate Thumbnails

    The 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. 2.
    Force Regenerate Thumbnails

    200K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 186 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.

  3. 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. 4.
    AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild

    30K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 90 reviews, updated 1 month ago.

  5. 5.
    XO Featured Image Tools

    20K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 21 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.

  6. 6.
    Videopack

    10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 63 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.

  7. 7.
    Kama Thumbnail

    8K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 15 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.

  8. 8.
    Manual Image Crop

    7K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 56 reviews, updated 2 months ago.

  9. 9.
    Get the Image

    7K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 17 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.

  10. 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”