AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild

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1. ★★★★★ cr8n

   10mo ago

   With over 4K images on my site, it’s impossible to get “Regenerate Thumbnails” in Woocommerce to complete. This takes care of it in a couple hours without taking a break. Thank you! Running WordPress 6.8.3 & PHP 8.4

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2. ★★★★★ mmk175

   2.3y ago

   No replies to support queries for over a year so it seems like a dead plugin. hopefully you backup your site before trying this.

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3. ★★★★★ Jasper

   2.5y ago

   This is a great plugin, easy to use and it should be in Core in some way or form. It’s ridiculous that Woo does automatic thumbnail regeneration, but WP Core doesn’t. Thanks for this.

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4. ★★★★★ Fred

   4.3y ago

   It did what Regenerate Thumbnails can’t.

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5. ★★★★★ 802jan

   4.8y ago

   Wordfence is giving ‘abandoned’ warnings since there have been no updates in three years. Excellent plugin though.

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6. ★★★★★ Wabbitt83

   5.5y ago

   Nice plugin, very useful, efficiency top. Make it automatic for every new photo or drawing in medias, it will be giant !!! 😉 This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Wabbitt83.

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7. ★★★★★ digitalrenewal

   7.0y ago

   My site has 7600 images, no other regeneration plugin would come close to finishing the process. This did the trick! Even though it hasn’t been tested with the latest three updates of WordPress, it ran perfectly fine. I hope the developer keeps this one alive. It saved me! No other plugin would work in this situation. Word of caution as stated in the description. Do not close the window, or allow your computer to hibernate. If you have a lot of images, leave the window open, turn off sleep mode in your control panel settings and play movies so images dont burn into your screen. Thank you so much! I can’t stand bloat on my server. This really did its job. and it was a big job.

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8. ★★★★★ esmodev

   7.4y ago

   This plugin works great, big thanks to the developer.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.14 Fix security issues (props @patchstack) Fix Github link (props @Julix91 @garretthyder) Fix crop-settings for additional sizes (props @karlkowald) 1.14
2. — Version 1.2.2 Compatibility with PHP 7.2 (props @thomas-gordon) Implemented throttling and retries for image regeneration (props @da2x) 1.2.2
3. — Version 1.2.1 NEW: Allow custom crop areas, read more 1.2.1
4. — Version 1.2 Compatibility with PHP7 1.2
5. — Version 1.12 FIX: An issue where rebuilding thumbnails in the media gallery would not work 1.12
6. — Version 1.11 FIX: An issue where the plugin would sometimes break the media gallery. 1.11

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.3 AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild <= 1.13 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2023-04-28 CVE-2022-47604 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.13 Patched in 1.14

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.2

Translated into 35 languages, 14 at 90% or more

Plus 11 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-07-13 40K+ → 30K+ down after 392 days in tier
2. 2024-06-16 50K+ → 40K+ down after 435 days in tier
3. 2023-04-08 60K+ → 50K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• ImageMagick Engine 60K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
• Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• PNG to JPG 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B
• Kama Thumbnail 9K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags D
• Get the Image 7K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
• OTF Regenerate Thumbnails 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D

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AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild: 30K+ active installs, 4.8★ (90 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/ajax-thumbnail-rebuild