Easy Add Thumbnail vs Regenerate Thumbnails

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Easy Add Thumbnail

by Samuel Aguilera

Health D51

Regenerate Thumbnails

by Alex Mills

Health B74

Active-install trajectory

Easy Add Thumbnail Regenerate Thumbnails

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Easy Add Thumbnail	Regenerate Thumbnails
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	7K–8K	1M–2M ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-13%	0% ✓
Overall health	D · 51	B · 74 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	10/100	61/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	85/100	91/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.36★	4.59★ ✓
Reviews	52	395 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	63/100	87/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Low ✓
Last updated	2.9y ago	1.0y ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	271	52.3K ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Easy Add Thumbnail Regenerate Thumbnails

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.