Image Processing Queue

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.

wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.

2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 2 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share 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.

Crossed into this band 7 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ onetrev

   7.6y ago

   It’s crazy this exact functionality is not in core! These days many themes and custom built sites/themes have 10 to 15, or often many more crop sizes, especially if you are trying to support responsive images properly. But usually you only need 3 or 4 crop sizes for any given images. The functionality of this plugin would solve that, but it should be WP core to save everyone wasted storage space and to ensure future compatibility. To me it makes no sense for a cropped copy of the image to be created when that image is never loaded — ever. This topic was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by onetrev.

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2. ★★★★★ medar

   8.4y ago

   Thnks!

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3. ★★★★★ cunnningstunts

   8.6y ago

   Make it core!

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4. ★★★★★ Shaan Nicol

   9.1y ago

   Have been using this now for a couple of months and it’s improved my workflow significantly!

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5. ★★★★★ Erol Abzait

   9.1y ago

   I have been using aquaResize for a long time, this is a game changer. If you want only the url of the resized image use echo ipq_get_theme_image_url( $id_here, array( 600, 400, false ) );

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6. ★★★★★ Bernhard Gronau

   9.5y ago

   Real intresting approach and something that should be considered for WP Core – especially the Batch Processing Stuff isn#t only useful for images … This topic was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Bernhard Gronau.

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7. ★★★★★ cerco

   9.6y ago

   Seems to solve the hassle of adding to many image sizes (via add_image_size()) for a theme. Great stuff, hope it gets added to the WordPress core soon.

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8. ★★★★★ Patrick Whitty-Clarke

   9.6y ago

   Keep up the good work, this is fantastic and could dramatically reduce WP install sizes. Knowing how many extra unused thumbnails were being generated but never used in my projects had been bugging me for a while.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 2 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-03-26 400+ → 300+ down after 21 days in tier
2. 2026-03-05 300+ → 400+ up after 4 days in tier
3. 2026-03-01 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2026-02-28 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2026-02-26 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2026-02-25 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2026-02-24 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2026-02-23 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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Image Processing Queue: 300+ active installs, 5.0★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/image-processing-queue