Display a thumbnail based on post images with no additional uploads. For multiple image posts, thumbnail respects Gallery sort order.
As of April 2026, Ordered Thumbnails is a WordPress images plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
Ordered Thumbnails is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display thumbnails based on images that have been attached to a post. This plugin also allows you to specify which thumbnail appears next to a post with multiple images by ordering the thumbnails in the Gallery tab of the WordPress “Add Images” lightbox and placing the thumbnail desired in the first position.
To style how the thumbnail appears on your page, you may pass optional CSS class names to the plugin, which will then be applied to the <img> tag returned. Alternately, by setting the display parameter to “false”, Ordered Thumbnails will return the thumbnail URL, height, and width as a PHP array to be used however you see fit. If no images have been attached to a post, the plugin fails gracefull…
| WordPress | 2.5+ requiredTested up to 2.9.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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