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Simple Image Sizes
Master your image sizes while dodging annoying commercial dashboard prompts.
HealthyGrowing
79/100
The plugin provides useful image control but carries technical bugs and annoying dashboard promotions.
Active installs
~65,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 60k+
Rating
4.6★
91 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+54%
Growing fast
123 → 190 installs/day
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 fast · +54% in the last year
123/day a year ago→190/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySimple Image Sizes is a well-regarded utility plugin for controlling WordPress image sizes and cropping behavior, but it carries real caveats around WooCommerce compatibility, a persistent custom-size deletion bug, server load issues on older WP versions, and a recent questionable dashboard promotion linking to a commercial site.
What people like
- +Effectively controls image cropping behavior, including disabling unwanted theme cropping×4
- +Allows creation of custom image sizes to avoid serving oversized images, helping site speed×2
- +Simple and intuitive to use×2
- +Provides a functions.php export so the plugin can be deactivated after applying settings
- +Works with popular themes such as Divi and Sahifa×2
Common complaints
- −Custom image sizes cannot be fully deleted — they persist even after the plugin is deactivated and removed, continuing to generate extra image files on upload
- −WooCommerce product image settings are not saved or are immediately overwritten, making the plugin ineffective for WooCommerce stores×2
- −Regenerating images gets stuck on WP 6.1.1 with WooCommerce (since 6.1.1)
- −Caused severe server overload when used with WP 5.3 (since 5.3)
- −Custom image sizes do not appear in the Add Media insert dropdown
- −Dashboard now displays a feedback prompt that links to the commercial Mediapapa site rather than WordPress.org, which may violate WordPress.org policies; the link also returns a server error
- −No support from the developer, reported by multiple users×2
- −Settings UI lacks clarity and could better explain its options
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.60★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 91 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-01★★★★★Dashboard spamjodokuskwak
- 2025-09-06★★★★★Very useful plugin – Love it!andreadelriva
- 2023-10-24★★★★★Was about to usemark ball
- 2023-01-29★★★★★Doesn't work on the latest WP version 6.1.1Nina Harris
- 2021-05-29★★★★★Helpful plugin to use self chosen image sizesmagerquark
- 2020-11-25★★★★★One of a kindstemmegaar1-shot
- 2020-05-24★★★★★Great little plugin seems to still worklonelywriter
- 2020-05-09★★★★★Please keep it up to daterealhalifax
- 2019-12-30★★★★★Superb jobtelevizor
- 2019-11-04★★★★★Don't use with WP 5.3Fabrício
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
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.
226
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
224
Prior 7-day baseline
135
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
812
Mean release-day peak (30d)
249
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+0.9%
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.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.11
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
88%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.58 → 4.60★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered