Kama Thumbnail
Creates post thumbnails on fly and cache the result. Auto-create of post thumbnails based on: WP post thumbnail OR first img in post content OR attach …
4.7(15 reviews)
·9.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 years agoAs of April 2026, Kama Thumbnail is a WordPress image plugin with 9.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 120K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 11% this week. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
4.7/515 reviews
9.0K+active installs
120K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Convenient way to create post thumbnails on the fly without server overload.
The best alternative to scripts like “thumbnail.php”.
Supports Multisite.
Usage
The plugin for developers firstly, because it don’t do anything after install. In order to the plugin begin to work, you need use one of plugin function in your theme or plugin. Example:
<?php echo kama_thumb_img( 'w=150 &h=150' ); ?>
Using the code in the loop you will get ready thumbnail IMG tag. Plugin takes post thumbnail image or find first image in post content, resize it and create cache. Also creates custom field for the post with URL to original image. In simple words it cache all routine and in next page loads just take cache result.
You can make thumbs from custom URL, like this:
The URL_TO…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Aweosme plugin to generate thumbnail and put them in cache
by AlexG132B·5 years ago
Thank you for your plugin! It does exactly what I was waiting for.
Indeed, this is a developper plugin, and I attended to generate thumbnails from external URLs and put them in cache, what the plugin does perfectly.
Thanks!
Отличный плагин миниатюр
by rad18·6 years ago
Отличный плагин миниатюр, всегда пользуюсь ним
Nice plugin
by ibelyaev·6 years ago
Kama Thumbnail is fast, usefull and definetely “must-have” plugin.
I use it on all my sites. The plugin reduces disk space usage and gives more flexibility to developing themes – you don’t have to create and keep hundreds of thumbnails, that won’t ever be used and you don’t depend on wp media library image sizes setting.
Thank you!
Пожалуй, лучший плагин для создания тумбочек у постов
by mihdan·7 years ago
Попробовал на одном огромном портале с несколькими миллионами картинок – результта превзошел все мои ожидания.
Количество фоток на сервере стало заметно меньше (а размеров у нас очень много) и делать руками приходится не так много работы.
Спасибо!
Плагин то что нужно
by riodejaneiroua·7 years ago
Использую почти в каждом проекте.
Download Trends
Today: 7Yesterday: 14This week: 59Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.1.10 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.5
76.0%
v3.3
9.2%
Other
7.9%
v2.8
6.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.5.1
- CHG: Options Page Moved from Media page to separate page.
- CHG: Minor improvements.
- IMP: Note if
ini_get( 'max_execution_time' ) === 0.
Contributors
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