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Regenerate Thumbnails
Bulk image resizing that might accidentally break your portrait photos.
Growing
74/100
The plugin handles bulk image tasks well but can break certain image orientations.
Active installs
~1.5 million
our estimate · wp.org shows 1.0M+
Rating
4.6★
395 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+9%
Growing
1,816 → 1,982 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORnot updated in 10 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +9% in the last year
1,816/day a year ago→1,982/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayRegenerate Thumbnails is a well-regarded utility plugin that reliably handles bulk thumbnail regeneration and cleanup, but carries a real risk of data loss or broken image references if used without a backup.
What people like
- +Reliably regenerates thumbnails in bulk, even across large libraries×4
- +Can restore missing thumbnails, useful after migrations or restores from backup×2
- +Removes unused thumbnail sizes, helping free up server space
- +Easy to install and use×2
Common complaints
- −Can break image references, particularly for portrait-oriented images, requiring manual database fixes
- −Reported to delete images that were actively in use in articles
- −Does not correctly handle WordPress's scaled image feature (the '-scaled' suffix), regenerating thumbnails from the scaled version instead of the original, which can orphan thumbnail sets and break offloading workflows
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.29★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 4%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 395 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-13★★★★★Works Pretty Wellzack00
- 2025-10-29★★★★★Very, very, very happy with the resultsJHouse
- 2025-09-09★★★★★Screwed all the references to images in a Portrait orientationchrisdubea
- 2025-09-02★★★★★Thanks!sjcm941-shot
- 2025-03-13★★★★★Works. Good info toomoviemoon
- 2024-11-21★★★★★Good cleanup toolDenny Müller
- 2024-11-14★★★★★Thanks for great plugin.Anil Chandra Robidas
- 2024-08-05★★★★★Doesn't work well with -scaled images21stcn
- 2024-07-09★★★★★Very useful pluginAsad
- 2024-07-08★★★★★This app saved my bloginfinityfree
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Regenerate Thumbnails
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
1,993
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
1,709
Prior 7-day baseline
1,179
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,099
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+16.6%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.54
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
79%
5★ share in analyzed sample
4%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-67%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.28 → 4.29★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered