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OTF Regenerate Thumbnails

by Benjamin Intal · Uncategorized

Also makes 8 other plugins · 114.7K+ installs across the portfolio →

Automatically regenerates your thumbnails on the fly when thumbnail sizes change.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
48 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 84/100
Support 70/100

48 health vs 56 average across 16,376 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, 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.

43 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 77/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3196 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

+83% vs prior 30d
12Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

256

now · peak 574

24930d 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

OTF Regenerate Thumb · #3385 you Real Thumbnail Gener · #6014 Regenerate Thumbnail · #23691 Regenerate Thumbnail · #64

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.6Stars · Aug 26

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.

62per 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

11.5y ago

latest release · v0.3

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.3 · 11.5y ago0.2 · 11.5y ago0.1 · 11.6y 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.

v0.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “4K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
4K–5K ≈4.4K

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

Install history · since 2015-03-10 · 1,466 observations

4KInstalls · 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
0.3
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2015-01-26 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.8
Tested up to
4.1.42
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. wube
    9.5y ago

    just works.

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  2. Wendihihihi
    9.7y ago

    I would love to use it…

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  3. waqarpro
    10.0y ago

    This plugin resizes the thumbnails properly when wordpress theme does not.

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  4. viery365
    10.3y ago

    I’ve just used it for the first time after trying several resizing plugins and it is hard to believe how this on works. We just don’t do anything. After installing this plugin you just relax and enjoy your re-sizings:)

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  5. MortenPeterAndersen
    10.7y ago

    a must have plugin coding themes

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  6. Rian Rietveld
    10.8y ago

    Nice plugin, very useful. Also works on a network install. Thanks!

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  7. mediadivision
    10.8y ago

    Having trouble with the plugin “Regenerate Thumbnails” I tried this one out and it just works. While “Regenerate Thumbnails” messes up the meta entries for the thumbnail images, this plugin does its job excellently and just works. It is also lightweight and works on-the-fly which makes it even more awesome. Big thumbs up!

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  8. ejhost
    10.9y ago

    OTF Regenerate thumbnails is now a part of every one of my WP sites. Works flawlessly. If you find that you’re having problems getting the thumbnails to generate properly, it is not this plugin. there are a lot of variables when dealing with re-sizing images. If you need to check that the images have the correct sizes, use this plugin –> https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-all-image-sizes/

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 0.3 Add new image size to attachment meta so WordPress can perform actions on the image 0.3
  2. Version 0.2 Bug fix: image size names which do not exist 0.2
  3. Version 0.1 First release 0.1

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.0.16 · WP 5.2.1

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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-11 5K+ → 4K+ down after 3 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-08 4K+ → 5K+ up after 11 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-28 5K+ → 4K+ down after 374 days in tier
  4. 2025-03-19 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-03-18 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2025-03-17 6K+ → 5K+ down after 306 days in tier
  7. 2024-05-15 7K+ → 6K+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2024-05-13 6K+ → 7K+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

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OTF Regenerate Thumbnails: 4K+ active installs, 4.6★ (19 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/otf-regenerate-thumbnails