Thumbnails and Featured Images
by Stefano Lissa 5 (6 reviews)

Thumbnails and Featured Images

Autoselect the featured image and creates pixel perfect resizes on the fly without regenerate all the thumbnails.

Thumbnails and Featured Images ranks #7,170 among WordPress.org plugins with 900+ active installations, is #850 of 6,651 in the Media category, a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews, and was last updated Mar 26, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.9 (Current: 7.1.4)
v1.1.9 Current Version v1.1.9
Updated 7 months ago Last Update on 26 Mar, 2026
Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on
#850 of 6,651 in Media Top 10% by installs Downloads -12.6% this week
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Active Installs
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KW Avg Position
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Downloads
39.7K
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Support Resolved
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Rating
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Review 5 out of 5
5 (6 reviews)

Next Milestone 1K

Total Progress 62%
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Reviews & Ratings

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6 reviews
Overall 100%
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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

No known vulnerabilities on record for Thumbnails and Featured Images. Checked 3 months ago.

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress theme and site developers who need image thumbnails in custom sizes and posts with automatic featured images. It generates pixel-perfect cropped thumbnails on the fly and caches them on disk, and it can autoselect a featured image for posts that lack one.

  • On-the-fly thumbnail generation
  • Pixel-perfect cropped resizing
  • Caches thumbnails on disk
  • No regenerate-thumbnails step needed
  • Autoselects featured image
  • Persist selected featured image
  • No blog modification, reversible on deactivation
  • No code required for themes

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Thumbnails and Featured Images

Thumbnails and Featured Images has 900+ active installations on the WordPress.org plugin directory.
Thumbnails and Featured Images holds a 5 out of 5 star rating based on 6 user reviews on WordPress.org.
Thumbnails and Featured Images is developed by Stefano Lissa and published on the official WordPress.org plugin repository.
Thumbnails and Featured Images requires WordPress 6.1 or higher, is tested up to WordPress 6.9 and needs PHP 7.4 or newer.
Thumbnails and Featured Images has been downloaded 39,732+ times from WordPress.org.
The latest version of Thumbnails and Featured Images is 1.1.9. It was last updated on March 26, 2026.
Yes. Thumbnails and Featured Images is a free WordPress plugin available to download and install from the WordPress.org plugin directory.

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