The plugin is actually just a port of a plugin/snippet I wrote for MODx a while ago (see here). It scans your content's source code for <img&g …
As of April 2026, AutoThumb is a WordPress images plugin with 80 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
The plugin is actually just a port of a plugin/snippet I wrote for MODx a while ago (see here). It scans your content’s source code for <img> tags with width and height attributes and passes them to phpThumb, a great PHP image editing library, which handles the resizing and editing of the image. Additionally, by passing parameters to phpThumb using a query string, it’s possible to edit the image in several ways (take a look at phpThumb’s demos).
The simplest way to get resized images is to specify width/height attibutes in your HTML. AutoThumb will use the given values and remove the attributes from your page’s output. When you take a look at the URLs of the example images found on the plugin home page, you will see that the <img>-tag’s src-attrib…
| WordPress | 2.7+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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