Thumbnail Upscale

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Enables upscaling of thumbnails for small media attachments

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned

Health

D 50/100

Stale · Likely abandoned

Active installs

3K+

≈3.7K estimated

Momentum

+63%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “editor”, “image” and “images” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

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How scoring works →

50 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 88/100

Support 70/100

50 health vs 58 average across 25,734 Uncategorized plugins

3K+

Active installs

≈3.7K estimated

46.5K

Total downloads

since 2013 · 6.5% still active

4.5/5

Rating

4.8 on wp.org · 22 reviews

+63%

490

Downloads · 30d

category median +8%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

6.5%

of downloads still active

At least 3K of 46.5K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,766 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.

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 4.6.30, well behind 6.8.

Ratings · 22 reviews

Details

Version: 1.1
Last updated: 8.9y ago
Added: 2013-08-26 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP: 3.5.1
Tested up to: 4.6.30
Requires PHP: —

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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.

44 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 3259 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 7/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.6.30; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 82/100

4.8★ over 22 reviews, smoothed to 4.31★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 3259 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Search visibility

How it's tracked →

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.

Keyword	wp.org	On merit	wp.org move, 90 days
editor your tag	Not in the top 24
image your tag	Not in the top 24
images your tag	Not in the top 24
thumbnail your tag	Not in the top 24
thumbnails your tag	Not in the top 24

0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

What to do about it

“editor”, “image” and “images” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+63% vs prior 30d

2331 Oct 2026

80400

2331 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 500 · peaks are release surges

50031 Oct 2026

5002500

50031 Oct 2026

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

Thumbnail Upscale · #3737youGet the Image · #2520Regenerate Thumbnail · #64Force Regenerate Thu · #231

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

5031 Oct 2026

604530

5031 Oct 2026

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.

16731 Oct 2026

2001000

16731 Oct 2026

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.

releases in the last 12 months

10.3y ago

latest release · v1.1 · 28 Jul 2016

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1 · 28 Jul 20161.0 · 16 Apr 2014

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 99% 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 99%

v1.0 1%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “3K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate

3K–4K ≈3.7K

Crossed into this band 6 months ago; the previous band took 17 months to cross, which places it about 66% of the way through.

Install history since 8 Feb 2020

3K31 Oct 2026

8K4K0

3K31 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗

★★★★★ alexio101
3.0y ago

That was a pleasant surprise. Still works and did a good job upscaling the image thumbnails.
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★★★★★ Denis
7.3y ago

Whaaaaat? You don’t use this plugin? It’s good.
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★★★★★ kush1960
8.0y ago

I’ve been using this great plugin for a number of years with no problems. It still works for some images but I have been getting blank images returned. I believe it’s something to do with the srcset parameter WP has introduced.
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★★★★★ deimz
8.3y ago

Thanks a lot for this tools ! It works very great with Regenerate Thumbnails plugin ! It saved me a lot of time
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★★★★★ Selrond
8.7y ago

If you add a new, custom image size (with crop argument set to 1) in WordPress, and uploaded image is smaller than that size, WordPress will not scale it up (effectively breaking the aspect ratio), which might break your design / layout, that depends on certain image size. This plugin scales your image up first, and then crop it, so you always have all sizes ready.
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★★★★★ Samuel Arendt
9.5y ago

Excelente plugin e trabalhou corretamente com o plugin de redimensionamento Regenerate Thumbnails!
Read on wp.org ↗
★★★★★ pixelmac
9.8y ago

This plugin is very usefull for clients.
Read on wp.org ↗
★★★★★ Oliver Lippert
9.8y ago

Simple Plugin. Just install and use it (may force rebuild of old thumbnails). Nice Job. Thanks man.
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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

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

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

3 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

✓ Says what it does "Enables upscaling of thumbnails for small media attachments"
! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
! FAQ asks real questions 1 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("Installation Instructions").
! 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 2 headings and 1 list.
! Enough to quote 867 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "editor" does not.

Growth timeline

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

2026-05-12 4K+ → 3K+ down after 512 days in tier
2024-12-16 5K+ → 4K+ down after 249 days in tier
2024-04-11 6K+ → 5K+ down after 3 days in tier
2024-04-08 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
2024-04-07 6K+ → 5K+ down after 434 days in tier
2023-01-29 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier
2023-01-28 6K+ → 7K+ up after 1 days in tier
2023-01-27 7K+ → 6K+ down after 549 days in tier

Competes with

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Thumbnail Upscale: 3K+ active installs, 4.8★ (22 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/thumbnail-upscale

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