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.

Simple Recent Posts Widget
#34,271by Anshul Gangrade3 months ago
Adds advanced featured image customization with sidebar widgets and multisite support.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
ImgShow
#34,497by pomeloLee14 years ago
Mouse Wheel zoom picture when you onclick it;
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day
autometa's THUMB
Up in the last 7 days:11,463#36,189by JorgeAmVF8 years ago
It reproduces featured images in pages, posts, portfolios or products simply via: [thumb].
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
All Inclusive
Up in the last 7 days:9,444#36,321by Yuriy Stepanov4 years ago
The pluginplug-in, with two additional SQL queries, joins the original data sample $wp_query->posts all meta fields, all files and images.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Responsive Modern Slider
Up in the last 7 days:3,249#36,750by watson-778 months ago
Modern responsive slider with Bootstrap 5, captions, and flexible shortcode options.
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- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Lazy Load with Base64 for Pagespeed online
#38,922by Hansoftech6 years ago
Lazy Load with Base64 for Pagespeed online plugin encode small images by preserving SEO and lazy load feature display images only when the user reache …
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- 10+
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- 0/day

Thumbnail Link for WooCommerce
#39,000by Christian Zimpel16 days ago
Link product images in your shop to any external URL – perfect for affiliate products.
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- 10+
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- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Unfeature
Down in the last 7 days:3,540#39,454by Grant Mangham12 years ago
Simply associates a checkbox with the featured image, allowing it to be skipped on single posts.
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- 10+
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- 0/day

NG-Lazyload
Down in the last 7 days:1,378#41,194by nikita.global4 years ago
Enables 'lazyload' for all thumbnails and images in the content. Developed by Nikita Menshutin https://nikita.global/
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- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
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- 0/day
upladobe
#42,578by Fumiki Takahashi10 years ago
A WordPress plugin which enable to create thumbnails for .pds, .ai and .pdf.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
SideNails
Up in the last 7 days:73#43,060by tranchesdunet14 years ago
SideNails allow you to display a list of the last posts with a thumbnail, in a widget. For this, SideNails use the images linked to your post (thumbna …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Markup to Featured Image
#43,920by One Crayon14 years ago
Automatically set the featured image (formerly the post thumbnail) for a post based on custom markup in the body text.
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- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
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- 0/day
Post Requirements
Down in the last 7 days:129#43,984by carestad10 years ago
This plugin allows you to require posts to have thumbnail set and/or tags.
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- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
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- 0/day
Apercite
#44,674by Francis16 years ago
The aim of this plugin is to display a thumbnail when hovering over a link in the blog posts.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Category Thumbnail Excerpt
Down in the last 7 days:2#45,195by Ajit Kumar Satpathy12 years ago
Lists a category with thumbnails,title,excerpt with a read more link
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Gallery Recent Posts
Down in the last 7 days:751#45,281by Kamena9 years ago
Displays recent posts thumbnails as the masonry grid gallery.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Video Image Thumbnail Extractor
Up in the last 7 days:1,900#45,284by arfeen15 years ago
A way to embedd video image thumbnail on the post.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Remote Thumbnail
Up in the last 7 days:6#45,560by Samuel Diethelm6 years ago
Lightweight plugin to use remote images for post thumbnails and featured image. Enter remote image url into custom field 'remote_thumbnail' …
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day

Jam Taxonomy Image
#45,570by Jam Viet11 years ago
Jam Taxonomy Image will help you have a nicer Category/Tag/Custom Post type Page with banner, and have a nice and powerful Taxonomy Widget
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- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tekserve Single Post Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:186#45,573by bangerkuwranger13 years ago
Wordpress plugin to create a shortcode and widget for showing the title, post info, excerpt, and thumbnail for a single post.
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- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Get Flickr Thumbnails
Up in the last 7 days:1,545#45,776get-flickr-thumbnails17 years ago
Get Flickr Thumbnails plugin can get thumbnails for photos on your site that from flickr.com
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- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day
Hetjens MediaRSS
Down in the last 7 days:1,113#46,076by S Hetjens10 years ago
This plug-in adds the post thumbnail of articles to the RSS and Atom-Feed via Media RSS specification.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Unclickable Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:362#46,304by zggz7 years ago
A WordPress plugin that forces all featured images to NOT be links
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
PhotoJAR
Up in the last 7 days:1,362#46,306photojar-post-thumbnailer18 years ago
PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnailer displays a post thumbnail. A full gallery can be displayed upon clicking the thumbnail when paired with a javascript viewe …
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Ordered Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:7,919#46,625by Stephen Mekosh17 years ago
Display a thumbnail based on post images with no additional uploads. For multiple image posts, thumbnail respects Gallery sort order.
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- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day
LiveStream.com Thumbnail
Down in the last 7 days:1,060#46,676by fatalmuffin15 years ago
This plugin will allow you to display a thumbnail from any livestream.com account!
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- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Aura Thumb Site
Down in the last 7 days:7,864#47,408by Auranet Informática6 years ago
Aura Thumb Site cria uma visualização automática de suas urls incluídas em uma página ou post. Visualização de miniatura em tempo real de um site a pa …
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Lean Media
#47,416by Code Master14 years ago
Save storage space by deleting large image files after generating thumbnails.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Caption on Featured
Down in the last 7 days:2,233#47,865by Jens Hunt11 years ago
Image Caption on Featured adds the caption on the featured image.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
blogintroduction
Down in the last 7 days:11,706#48,129blogintroduction-wordpress-widget17 years ago
Shows a thumbnail of a blogroll/linkroll-entry by random
- Installs
- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Automatic Thumbnail Generator
Down in the last 7 days:7,885#48,382by iuk16 years ago
Automated on-demand generation of posts thumbnails.
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- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Feature image for PressBooks
Up in the last 7 days:16,449#49,051by Antonio D.7 years ago
You can have features images and images with the post width size in a PressBooks installation
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
RB Thumbnail Columns
Up in the last 7 days:11,621#52,660by Bashir Rased3 months ago
Adds a thumbnail (featured image) column to your WordPress admin post list screen.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple removal of posted images
#52,731by Antonio D.7 years ago
Removes all the inserted images in the content section of the posts.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Term Featured Image Fallback
Up in the last 7 days:14,436#54,541by Eduardo Lazaro9 years ago
Enables featured images for terms of any category, tag or custom taxonomy and set them as fallback for posts of any post type.
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- <10
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- 0/day
WP Popular Posts Widget
Up in the last 7 days:14,689#55,168by Nashita7 years ago
Widget for displaying popular posts with thumbnail and post view counter.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day

GuardaFoto
#57,390by guardafoto1 day ago
Paste a public YouTube, Spotify, Deezer or Apple Music link and download its profile photo, banner, thumbnail or cover in the platform's sizes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- –

Tiny Default Thumbnail
Up in the last 7 days:12,609#58,040by Vincent Dubroeucq5 years ago
Allows you to add a default featured image to posts. Just add a default image in your customizer settings !
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- <10
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- 0/day
KDA Thumbnails
Up in the last 7 days:1,158#58,163by deniskey2 months ago
Generate cached image thumbnails on the fly via shortcode or PHP functions. Supports GD, Imagick, WebP, and text/image watermarks with Google Fonts.
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- <10
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- –
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- 0/day
Kikushima Recipes
#60,834by kikutou6 years ago
Show recipes information on restaurant or recipe sites.
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- <10
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- –
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- 0/day

Custom Thumbnail Size On Admin
Down in the last 7 days:13,124#63,228by Marcos Rezende7 years ago
Triple the thumbnail size on admin area
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- <10
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- 0/day

Smart Thumbnails GW
Up in the last 7 days:7,792#63,790by Mohammadreza Maghsoudipour5 months ago
An intelligent image management plugin that registers custom sizes for each post type and regenerates them only when needed for featured images.
- Installs
- <10
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- –
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- 0/day

Featured Image from External Sources
#64,807by DADOK - Global Internet Solutions6 years ago
Fastest way to choose Featured Image to your Posts from Yahoo Images, Seznam.cz, etc..
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Pixalia Image Assistant
Down in the last 7 days:10,530#65,112by pixalia7 months ago
Pixalia Image Assistant manages featured images and generates high-quality AI images directly within WordPress using the Pixalia API.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Rusty Social Image Share
Up in the last 7 days:3,913#66,102by RustyBadRobot6 years ago
Keep your original Featured Image proportions whilst sharing to Facebook.
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- <10
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- –
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- 0/day

Featured Image Extended
Down in the last 7 days:2,204#67,077by Enrico Sorcinelli8 years ago
Feature Image Extended extends featured image builtin functionality.
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- <10
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- –
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- 0/day
Isizer
Up in the last 7 days:2,977#67,600by Seredniy7 years ago
Simple change, create and remove registered WordPress image sizes
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- <10
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- –
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- 0/day

GenPost Thumbnails
#68,156by MrGhozzi2 months ago
Generate smart, contextual AI featured images for your WordPress posts automatically or on-demand using Pollinations.ai.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Melal Publisher for Aparat
#68,420by Mohammad Reza Rezaei6 days ago
Publish public videos from an Aparat channel as WordPress posts and set each video poster as the featured image.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 54/day

Featured Lyth Slide
#68,729by lythium929 years ago
Easy to use WordPress slide plugin for featured post with thumbnail and nice Breaking animation.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day