Best thumbnail plugins for WordPress
170 plugins tagged “thumbnail” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.
thumbGen
Down in the last 7 days:51#15,658by sebastianbarria11 years ago
This plugin creates a function named thumbGen() that allows to show any image in the specified size (plus many other things).
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Frontier Set Featured
Up in the last 7 days:167#15,661by finnj3 years ago
Frontier Set Featured will set featured image from images in the post if no featured image is set by the user.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

External url as post Featured Image (thumbnail)
Up in the last 7 days:236#16,332by Puvox Software2 years ago
[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍] Set External-URL as post thumbnail url.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Excerpt Image Link
Down in the last 7 days:17#16,678by peterwsterling17 years ago
A plugin which looks for <IMG> tags in the excerpt and, if found, wraps them with a link to the post permalink.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Thumbnail Sizes
Down in the last 7 days:67#16,683by Lutz Schröer10 years ago
The easiest way to add custom sized thumbnails to any installed theme. No coding required.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Image Size Attributes Remover
Up in the last 7 days:69#17,431by Kite10 years ago
Remove width and height attributes of image tags.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

CropRefine
Down in the last 7 days:16#17,557by 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
Post Thumbnail from URL
Down in the last 7 days:68#18,291by michele.settembre11 years ago
Post Thumbnail From URL is a plugin to quickly import images from the web straight to your Media Library using a public URL.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

RB External Thumbnail
Up in the last 7 days:146#18,485by Rodrigo Brito9 years ago
Enable thumbnail field to external images. You can use external images as thumbnails in the blog posts. A simple and practical way.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Crop and Resize Images
Down in the last 7 days:182#18,755by bo.lipai11 years ago
Crop and Resize Images Plugin allows you to easily modify WordPress uploaded images.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fr Thumbnails Folder
Up in the last 7 days:7#19,506by fahrirusliyadi2 years ago
Move thumbnails file location to {$upload_path}/thumbnails or {$upload_path}/sites/{$blog_id}/thumbnails for multisite.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

OKCOM Sort and Show ID Slug Thumbnails
Up in the last 7 days:121#19,568by okcom1256 years ago
With sorting function, ID, slug, thumbnail, and character count are displayed.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Thumbnails
Up in the last 7 days:169#19,636by mbecher17 years ago
If your theme supports Wordpress 2.9's thumbnail feature, this plugin displays thumbnails on the admin area's manage posts and manage pages …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

My Templates Thumbnails for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:51#19,795by heinvv4 years ago
This plugin adds a thumbnail to the My Templates library in Elementor.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Disable PDF Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:62#19,844by Makeworthy Media5 years ago
Disables WordPress from generating image thumbnails when you upload a PDF.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

PlaceHodor
Down in the last 7 days:14#21,578by xuxu.fr23 days ago
Substitute/replace missing images by a default image. The plugin will (try to) display/generate the good size (width and height) of the missing image.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Thumbnail (Image) Size Names and Dimensions
Up in the last 7 days:635#21,691by kgmservizi2 days ago
List of image size names and dimensions of your installation.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mobile Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:187#21,734by ryanshoover9 years ago
Display a mobile featured image
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Archives
Down in the last 7 days:61#21,801by Nomeu13 years ago
Image Archives is a wordpress plugin that displays images from your published posts with a permalink back to the post that the image is connected to.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Category Thumbnail
Down in the last 7 days:119#21,818by NetTantra7 years ago
WP Category Thumbnail create a thumbnail widget
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Media Library Thumbnail Enhancer
Down in the last 7 days:184#22,464by Nick Ciske12 years ago
Enhances media library thumbnails by making them larger and replacing the bundled icons with scalable SVG versions.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Smart Image II
Down in the last 7 days:100#22,900by Dario Ferrer12 years ago
Powerful, reliable and lightweight plugin which helps you to easily show post images and handle them. Essential tool for web designers and developers.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
My Popular Posts Widget
#23,468by gdthemes12 years ago
A very simple popular posts widget which displays posts by comment count (with featured image).
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SmartCrop
Up in the last 7 days:32#23,575by Alex Mills8 years ago
Instead of cropping to the center of an image, SmartCrop attempts to use the most interesting part of the image for the thumbnail.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
TT Post Viewer
Down in the last 7 days:27#24,120by Rashed Latif11 years ago
Plugin to display posts in different ways.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Thumbnail Linkbox Shortcode
#24,157by Takashi Fujisaki7 years ago
You can easily create links with thumbnails with shortcode.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

NutsForPress Images and Media
#24,562by 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
#25,710by 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
Use the Attachment Image!
#25,883by Tom Lany5 years ago
Allows the first attachment image associated with a post to be used in different locations throughout a blog.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-Choose-Thumb
#26,175by Dave Ligthart14 years ago
A simple way to add a default thumbnail to your post.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Grey Owl Thumbnail Resize Lite
#26,800by greyowl00153 years ago
best solution for thumbnail editing
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Pronamic Feed Images
#27,003by Pronamic1 year ago
This plugin automatically adds the post thubmanil to the WordPress feeds, the image size can be easily configured.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Generate Thumbnail
Down in the last 7 days:368#27,116by 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
- 6/day
Reset Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:50#27,338by lenanghai11 years ago
Reset Thumbnails allows you to set the default thumbnails for your all image attachments or apply for your all post thumbnail.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Auto Attach Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:227#27,763by ilonapetrak10 years ago
Automatically sets the Post Thumbnail from the first image uploaded into the post only if Post Thumbnail is not set.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Thumbnail Column
Down in the last 7 days:2#28,076by Andrey Ovcharov14 years ago
This plugin adds column with thumbnails for selected post types
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

GLS RSS Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:52#28,170by GLS Inc.1 year ago
Adds featured images to WordPress RSS feeds. / WordPressのRSSフィードにアイキャッチ画像を追加します。
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Get Image
Down in the last 7 days:421#28,242by dgmike17 years ago
Take the last image daughter of a post on the selected size.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Thumbnail_Create
Down in the last 7 days:51#28,261by milkycocoa7 years ago
記事のサムネイルを自動で作成。画像を素材サイトから自動でダウンロードします。
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
real.PostImages
Up in the last 7 days:97#28,349by real.master10 years ago
Дополнительное поле записей (постов) для изображений. | English read below
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Thumbnail Column
Down in the last 7 days:239#29,032by silver53012 years ago
Adds a new column to posts list for featured images.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Term Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:344#29,094by Ralf Hortt12 years ago
Post Thumbnails for WordPress Terms
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Order Thumbnail for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:519#29,288by Delite Studio2 years ago
Adds a thumbnail to orders list in WooCommerce.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
MP Recent Post Widget
Up in the last 7 days:175#29,374by MediumPixel10 years ago
Recent Post Widget with date, author and post thumbnail
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day

Easy Stock Featured Image
Up in the last 7 days:142#29,949by David Angulo4 years ago
Automatically attach stock photos as featured image to your posts without featured image.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Show Thumbnail Image In Admin Post / Page List
Up in the last 7 days:1,896#31,223by bjovaar4 years ago
STIAP Plugin for Wordpress that the add column for thumbnail image from post and page in the post / page list in admin area.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Thumbnails like in Drupal
#32,288by stasionok3 years ago
Wordpress implementation/fork of Drupal imagecache module.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
jqDock Post Thumbs
#32,355by Shaun Scovil15 years ago
This plugin allows you to create a Mac-like Dock menu with post thumbnail links or an image gallery in any post or page, using a simple shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Absolute Thumbnail Column
#32,604by AbsolutePlugins4 years ago
Absolute Thumbnail column allows you to upload, select and change thumbnail on any post-types right from the post table.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Post Thumbnail
#34,088by JohnnyPea15 years ago
Easy way to add random featured images to your posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day