Edit Image Thumbnails Separately
by WordPress.org · Uncategorized
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Re-enables editing of the thumbnail size of images separately.
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Health
D 49/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
400+
≈460 estimated
Momentum
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no download trend yet
Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 14/100. Last updated 1186 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
49 health vs 58 average across 25,753 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →16%
of downloads still active
At least 400 of 2.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,772 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
45/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 1186 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.3.14; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 7 reviews, smoothed to 4.21★ and held back under 25 reviews
0 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 1186 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 9 Aug 2023 · 1,181 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 135 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
3.2y ago
latest release · v1.0.0 · 3 Aug 2023
1
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 7 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 55% of the way through.
Install history since 8 Aug 2023
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ hafman5mo ago
Astonished to find this function now missing from WordPress. It’s so necessary to avoid the decapitation syndrome if anything. It should have been improved and made more accessible/intuitive/draggable like Facebook (ha ha). Thank you for providing this plugin.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Mon Coach WP3.0y ago
A basic functionality that should have remained in the core of WordPress, thanks to the team for this essential plugin
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Eagleeye10003.0y ago
Good to have this plugin. Thank you for your engagement.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ WPBot3.0y ago
Just found out that this functionality was removed in WP 6.3 and this plugin is a must-have. It helps with creating custom thumbnails from the featured image, that are shown in search engine results (and if there’s another way to create them, I have no idea what it is).
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ kevinthom3.1y ago
I appreciate WordPress’s desire to be efficient and fast, but it can’t be at the expense of flexibility for the user. I’m glad this plugin exists because it’s very important to me to be able to decide how a thumbnail is cropped. You can’t always just leave it to a CSS rule. Please keep maintaining this plugin so we can keep our sites beautiful and functional.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ loomedisto3.2y ago
“hAvInG cUsToM, nOn-pRoPoRtiOnaL iMaGe sUb-SiZeS iS nOt cOnSiDeReD a GoOd pRaCtiCe” FFS as if loading an extra 150-pixel image is that big of a problem these days, particularly when it’s often the ONLY version of the image that’s called by the theme on a given page. 🙄 The point of “responsiveness” is usability, so removing this functionality from core is actually a LESS responsive approach in cases where the large image loses all of its legibility/visibility/attractiveness and thus value to the page when it is scaled down – for example headshots of people where there is only room for their cropped-in face on small screens. Anyway thanks for releasing this, works great. Please don’t abandon it.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Brim3.2y ago
Don’t know what was the reason to remove this feature. But with this plugin it works again. Thank you.
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 5 languages, 5 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
1 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Re-enables editing of the thumbnail size of images separately."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 679 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text No tags set.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-04-13 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-04-12 400+ → 300+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2026-04-08 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-04-07 400+ → 300+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-04-04 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-04-02 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-03-31 300+ → 400+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2026-03-28 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
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