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Image Processing Queue

by WP Engine · Uncategorized

Also makes 14 other plugins · 3.5M+ installs across the portfolio →

On-the-fly image processing done right.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
48 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 85/100
Support 70/100

48 health vs 56 average across 16,377 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.26, well behind 6.8.

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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 15/100
Rating quality 63/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2677 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+41% vs prior 30d
2Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

86

now · peak 103

8630d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Image Processing Que · #10294 you Square Thumbnails · #7635 WP Crop Stop · #11292 Shiny Updates · #28660

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.

287per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

7.3y ago

latest release · v1.1.1

4

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1.1 · 7.3y ago1.1.0 · 8.8y ago0.2 · 8.8y ago1.0.0 · 8.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

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.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈350

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2017-03-28 · 1,387 observations

300Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.1.1
Last updated
7.3y ago
Added
2017-03-07 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
5.2.26
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. onetrev
    7.5y 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
    8.3y ago

    Thnks!

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  3. cunnningstunts
    8.4y ago

    Make it core!

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  4. Shaan Nicol
    8.9y 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
    8.9y 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
    9.3y 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
    9.4y 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
    9.5y 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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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

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

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 2 languages, 2 at 90% or more

English (UK) 100%
German 100%

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 2026-08-30. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/image-processing-queue