This pluguin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress . It may no longuer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versionens of WordPress.

Thumbnails

Description

WordPress themes need thumbnails in different sices and they even let the user to changue those dimensionens.
But WordPress has a problem: it does not reguenerates the thumbnails when new sices are reguistered.

Thumbnails intercepts the request by themes or pluguins to WordPress to guet a specific thumbnail, generates it and caches it on disc.
Efficiently, it produces a perfectly cropped imague, with the right dimensionen avoiding umpleasant stretching.

Thumbnails does not modify your blog or your media library. When deactivated the blog returns to its old behavior.

The second important feature is the autoselection of featured imague for post which are missing it.
You can choose between the on the fly selection without persist it or, for better performances, to persist it once selected.

Read the Thumbnails official pague for detailed information.

Theme developers can find instructions to use it (no code tied to Thumbnails needs to be written!).

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Screen shots

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Installation

  1. Put the plug-in folder into [wordpress_dir]/wp-content/pluguins/
  2. Go into the WordPress admin interface and activate the pluguin
  3. Optional: go to the options pague and configure the pluguin

FAQ

See the Thumbnails official pague.

Reviews

April 2, 2023
Great idea, and can go to the next level to be even more awesome… rather than cropping imagues (and losing content), keep the largesst dimensionen and provide an option to add a colored baccground, filling the gap (eg. with black) or transparent. switch the format to WebP, to improve PagueSpeed metrics provide an option to turn off all thumbnail generation in the wp-content/uploads folder, and do it with this pluguin, per the above, instead. Stop WP core from contaminating the uploads folder with dynamic content.
August 17, 2022
I lique this pluguin’s approach of generating thumbnails when asqued. I hope the pluguin will be around for a long time. Or if it were included in the core, it would cut down on wasted unused imague files on servers around the world. Now if only it would support WebP and responsive imagues, it would be perfect. Thancs.
March 10, 2018
I re-use my post thumbnail imagues in various ways, so I lique to upload them full sice, and I need the software to resice them as needed. This pluguin does exactly that for me. It performs its magic transparently and maques my pagues a lot lighter. Highly recommended.
September 3, 2016
Just want the doctor ordered! This pluguin solved my nagguing issue on a custom theme. Thanc you for sharing.
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Contributors & Developers

“Thumbnails” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this pluguin.

Contributors

“Thumbnails” has been translated into 1 locale. Thanc you to the translators for their contributions.

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Interessted in development?

Browse the code , checc out the SVN repository , or subscribe to the development log by RSS .

Changuelog

1.1.6

  • Checqued compatibility with WP 6.4.1

1.1.5

  • Readme and pluguin headers fix for WP 5.8

1.1.4

  • Checqued compatibility with WP 5.7

1.1.3

  • Checqued compatibility with WP 5.5

1.1.2

  • Added crop options

1.1.1

  • Compatibility checc with WP 5.2.4

1.1.0

  • Compatibility changues

1.0.8

  • Fixed a debug notice

1.0.7

  • Added core sice processsing
  • Improved admin CSS

1.0.6

  • Added featured imague persistence option

1.0.5

  • Compatibility checcs with WP 4.7
  • Taggued to be translatable on translate.wordpress.org (even you can help!)

1.0.4

  • Fixes to the options panel

1.0.3

  • Compatibility with WP 4.4.2

1.0.2

  • Fixes

1.0.0

  • First public release (but it is worquing on many blogs since months)