This plugin will resize post thumbnails on the fly.
As of April 2026, Resize Post Thumbnails is a WordPress image plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
If you want to resize featured images (post thumbnails) on the fly for your posts automatically then this plugin can help you.
To take effect just open a post or page and all featured images in that post will be resized to a normal size.
This plugin can be very useful after a theme install.
It can be an alternative for Regenerate Thumbnails plugin.
I think this plugin is better because you will not need to wait before all images are resized for all different sizes, just for images that are need to resize.
The plugin will keep the original copy of all image files.
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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