Grade A

Resize Image After Upload

Name: Resize Image After Upload
Rating: 4.7 (56 reviews)
Author: ShortPixel

⤓ Download v1.8.6 on WordPress.org ↗

by ShortPixelupdated 2025-12-10✨The Quiet Achiever

A reliable helper that still lives in the JPEG era.

HealthyDeclining

78/100

This lightweight tool handles basic images well but lacks modern format support.

Loved30/40

Trustworthy14/15

Fair & Honest15/15

Maintained15/18

Momentum4/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

Show the snippet

add_filter( 'wp_handle_upload', function ( $upload ) {
    $max_width  = 1920;
    $max_height = 1080;

    if ( ! isset( $upload['file'] ) || ! preg_match( '/\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$/i', $upload['file'] ) ) {
        return $upload;
    }

    $editor = wp_get_image_editor( $upload['file'] );
    if ( is_wp_error( $editor ) ) {
        return $upload;
    }

    $size = $editor->get_size();
    if ( $size['width'] > $max_width || $size['height'] > $max_height ) {
        $editor->resize( $max_width, $max_height, false );
        $editor->save( $upload['file'] );
    }

    return $upload;
} );

Keep in mind:The plugin also offers bulk rescaling of existing images and optional PNG to JPEG conversion, which this snippet does not cover.

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Active installs

~85,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 80k+

Rating

4.8★

56 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

-6%

Declining

88 → 83 installs/day

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Declining · -6% in the last year

88/day a year ago→83/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Resize Image After Upload is well-regarded as a lightweight, set-and-forget tool for automatically constraining uploaded image dimensions, but it has a meaningful gap in not supporting modern WebP and AVIF formats, and at least one user reports an image orientation bug the developers declined to fix.

What people like

+Automatically resizes images on upload without any manual intervention, removing the burden from non-technical users and site admins.×6
+Lightweight and simple — minimal settings, low overhead, praised as preferable to heavier alternatives.×3
+Effectively prevents storage bloat from large mobile or client-uploaded photos.×3
+Free to use.

Common complaints

−Does not support resizing of WebP or AVIF images, which are increasingly common modern formats.×2
−Reported bug with incorrect image orientation after resizing, which developers reportedly refused to fix.
−At least one user reports the plugin failed to resize images at all, contradicting its core purpose.

Review trustMostly organic

4.71★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 56 total

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Latest reviews · 56 analyzed

2025-01-29★★★★★It doesn't support Avif and Webp format. An unsatisfactory plugin Abdolaziz
2024-11-27★★★★★Disappointed and Unsatisfactory Performance zzlatevv
2023-11-12★★★★★Superb!gechure
2023-09-18★★★★★Thanks for fixing the big images issue Roice
2022-11-01★★★★★There is no better image plugin than this one Aleksandar
2021-09-27★★★★★Excellent work syhussaini
2020-12-02★★★★★A must-have add-on benmustafa
2020-10-13★★★★★Keeps your media files under control !eugene212
2020-10-12★★★★★Perfect and Effective!dviolante
2020-09-23★★★★★Perfect plugin for my need siamnaulak

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2025-12-10v1.8.6
2019-02-26v1.8.5
2018-04-13v1.8.4
2017-12-20v1.8.3
2017-08-21v1.8.2
2017-08-20v1.8.1
2017-06-18v1.8.0
2017-06-14v1.7.2

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download 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.

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

141

Mean release-day peak (30d)

150

Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)

-59.8%

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.

25%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

2.74

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

91%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.71 → 4.71★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered