by Shane Bishop 4.9 (292 reviews)

Imsanity

Name: Imsanity
Rating: 4.9 (292 reviews)
Author: Shane Bishop

Automatically resizes huge image uploads. Are contributors uploading huge photos? Tired of manually resizing your images? Imsanity to the rescue!

Imsanity ranks #229 among WordPress.org plugins with 200,000+ active installations, is #25 of 6,009 in the Media category, a 4.9/5 rating from 292 reviews, and was last updated Jul 28, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7

v2.9.3 Current Version v2.9.3

Updated 1 day ago Last Update on 28 Jul, 2026

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#25 of 6,009 in Media Top 1% by installs Downloads +702.1% this week Actively maintained

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4.5M

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Review 4.9 out of 5

4.9 (292 reviews)

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Keyword	Position	Change	Type	Updated
space saver	1	—	Tag	6 hours ago
scale	2	—	Tag	6 hours ago
resize	6	—	Tag	6 hours ago
quality	6	—	Tag	6 hours ago
image	107	—	Tag	6 hours ago

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.9.3
Last Updated: Jul 28, 2026
Requires WP: 6.7+
Tested Up To: 7
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Shane Bishop

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9
Reviews: 292
Support Threads: 3
Resolved: 33%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and admins whose contributors upload oversized photos to the media library. It automatically resizes large image uploads to a configured size and quality, and can bulk-resize previously uploaded images to save disk space.

Automatically resizes large image uploads
Bulk resize existing images
Resize individual images in Media Library
Configurable max width/height
Configurable JPG quality
Converts BMP and PNG to JPG
Uses WordPress built-in image scaling
No action required once enabled

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Imsanity

Activating Imsanity will not alter any existing images. Imsanity resizes images as they are uploaded so it does not affect existing images unless you specifically use the "Bulk Image Resize" feature on the Imsanity settings page. The Bulk Resize feature allows you to quickly resize existing images.

WordPress uses the GD library to handle the image manipulation. GD can be installed and configured to support various types of images. If GD is not configured to handle a particular image type then you will get this message when you try to upload it. For more info see http://php.net/manual/en/image.installation.php

You can re-name your file and add "-noresize" to the filename. For example if your file is named "photo.jpg" you can rename it "photo-noresize.jpg" and Imsanity will ignore it, allowing you to upload the full-sized image. If you are a developer (or have one handy), you can also use the 'imsanity_skip_image' filter to bypass resizing for any image.

While Imsanity does compress JPG images in the process of resizing them, it uses the standard WordPress compression. Thus, the resulting images are not efficiently encoded and can be optimized further (without quality loss) by the EWWW Image Optimizer and many other image optimization plugins.

If the images can be found in the Media Library of your site, then it is likely Imsanity will resize them. Imsanity uses the wp_handle_upload hook to process new uploads and can resize any existing images in the Media Library using the Bulk Resizer. If the images are not in the Media Library, you can use the EWWW Image Optimizer to resize them.

Photos taken on any modern camera and most cellphones are too large to display full-size in a browser. This wastes space on your web server, and wastes bandwidth for your visitors to view these files. Imsanity allows you to set a sanity limit so that all uploaded images will be constrained to a reasonable size which is still more than large enough for the needs of a typical website. Imsanity hooks into WordPress immediately after the image upload, but before WordPress processing occurs. So WordPress behaves exactly the same in all ways, except it will be as if the contributor had scaled their image to a reasonable size before uploading. The size limit that imsanity uses is configurable. The default value is large enough to fill the average vistor's entire screen without scaling so it is still more than large enough for typical usage.

You might not want to use Imsanity if you use WordPress as a stock art download site, to provide hi-resolution images for print or use WordPress as a hi-resolution photo storage archive.

When an image is uploaded WordPress keeps the original and, depending on the size of the original, will create up to 4 smaller sized copies of the file (Large, Medium-Large, Medium, Thumbnail) which are intended for embedding on your pages. Unless you have special photographic needs, the original usually sits there unused, but taking up disk quota.

Imsanity is short for "Image Sanity Limit". A sanity limit is a term for limiting something down to a size or value that is reasonable.

Questions may be posted on the support forum at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imsanity but if you don't get an answer, please use https://ewww.io/contact-us/.