Force Regenerate Thumbnails
Delete and REALLY force thumbnail regeneration.
4.7(183 reviews)
·200K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Force Regenerate Thumbnails is a WordPress force plugin with 200K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 183 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.9M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: WPForce Logout – WordPress User Login….
4.7/5183 reviews
200K+active installs
4.9M+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Force Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to delete all old images sizes and REALLY regenerate the thumbnails for your uploads.
Regenerate all thumbnails from the Tools admin menu. Regenerate batches of images via the Media Library list mode. Select the images to regenerate and then use the Bulk Actions drop-down menu to Force Regenerate Thumbnails. Use attachment actions to regenerate thumbnails for a single image.
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by barnabas1·2 months ago
Absolutely great plugin. Fixed my bad looking woocommerce thumbnails that were generated with wrong dimensions in the past.
- This topic was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by barnabas1.
This plugin literally saved my website with over 50,000 products.
by koultti·3 months ago·1 reply
I was completely stuck—my site was overloaded with heavy PNG images and more than 100,000 unnecessary thumbnails. I was seriously considering deleting everything and rebuilding the whole site from scratch. Every thumbnail regeneration plugin I tried would either freeze, fail to delete the old thumbnails, or just generate even more useless image sizes.
Then I found this plugin, and honestly, it was a game changer.
I used it together with two other tools:
• Image Sizes Controller by GrandPlugins — I disabled every thumbnail size I didn’t need and kept only the one that mattered. Before that, WordPress was generating around 10 different sizes for each image.
• Plus WebP or AVIF by Katsushi Kawamori — This one converts any uploaded image to WebP with adjustable quality and deletes the original file. Simply perfect.
Now my website is faster than a bullet. After installing and configuring the other two plugins, I tested everything and then started the full thumbnail regeneration process using Force Regenerate Thumbnails. To my surprise, it worked flawlessly: no freezing, no errors, and the whole process was impressively fast. All the old oversized images were completely removed, and every thumbnail was regenerated exactly as needed.
A HUGE THANK YOU to the developer of this plugin. You genuinely saved my project. Wishing you all the good things in the world!
Solve the problem!
by jofer·4 months ago·1 reply
It works very well! Thank you!!
has saved my life
by stefansic·10 months ago·1 reply
The plugin regenerates the image sizes that are registered. It deletes the unregistered ones AND it also seems to repair the meta data. Impressive! Thank you very much!
It works!
by Ivan·1 year ago
After trying other plugins unsuccessfully, this one worked!
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.3
29.6%
v2.0
29.6%
v2.2
26.5%
v2.1
14.3%
Other
0.0%
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Changelog
2.3.0
Release Date – February 17, 2026
- added: WP_CLI command: force-regenerate-thumbnails props @realmranshuman
- fixed: PHP 8.5 compatibility
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