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Best thumbnails plugins for WordPress

The most popular thumbnails 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 Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails (100K+). All 139 plugins tagged “thumbnails” 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 thumbnails plugins

  1. 1.
    Regenerate Thumbnails

    The most installed thumbnails 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.
    Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails

    100K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 215 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.

  4. 4.
    Perfect Images

    60K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 279 reviews, updated 5 days ago.

  5. 5.
    Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail)

    40K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 119 reviews, updated 3 days ago.

  6. 6.
    Multiple Post Thumbnails

    10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 42 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.

  7. 7.
    Related Posts by Taxonomy

    10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 77 reviews, updated 2 months ago.

  8. 8.
    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.

  9. 9.
    iOS images fixer

    6K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 30 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.

  10. 10.
    Disable Generate Thumbnails

    6K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 16 reviews, updated 2 months ago.

All 139 plugins tagged “thumbnails”