A plugin for updating your thumbnails whenever a new thumbnail size is added with add_image_size()
As of April 2026, Thumbnail Updater is a WordPress images plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
Thumbnail Updater does exactly what it’s name implies: it updates thumbnails. WordPress 2.9 introduced support for
post thumbnails but one problem is that the support is not backwards compatible—meaning that if you downloaded or created
a theme that supports post thumbnails, any images uploaded prior to the activation of that theme will not have the new thumbnail size.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.0.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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