reGenerate Thumbnails Advanced

reGenerate Thumbnails Advanced

Regenerate thumbnails fast and easy while removing unused thumbnails of existing images; very useful when changing a theme.
Rating:
3.5
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Active Installations:
90000+
Last Updated:
Mar 26, 2024
WordPress Version:
4.0 or higher
Tested up to:
6.5.2

Fast Image Regeneration

Easily update old thumbnails

The Regenerate Thumbnails Advanced plugin allows you to quickly and effortlessly update your old thumbnails to fit your new WordPress theme. With just a few clicks, you can ensure that all your images have the perfect size and fit seamlessly into your new design.

Remove not-used-anymore thumbnails and generate the needed ones.

Seamless Integration with ShortPixel

Fully integrated with ShortPixel Image Optimizer for better image optimization.

Customizable Thumbnail Sizes

Tailor your images to suit your needs

2.5.0

Release date: February 12, 2024
* New: Added a statistic at the end of the process that shows the total number of thumbnails regenerated;
* New: Regenerate Thumbnails Advanced PRO is now available with exciting new features;
* New: Thumbnail sizes are now displayed in the plugin settings;
* Tweak: Added clear wording and explanation for the “Force Regenerate Thumbnails” feature;
* Tweak: Reorganized the plugin settings, updated the wording and links of the plugin.
* Compat: Updated the integration with ShortPixel Image Optimizer;
* Fix: Compatibility with PHP 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3;
* Fix: The plugin settings look better on mobile;
* Fix: Regenerating thumbnails for WebP files now works properly;
* Fix: SHIFT+select works correctly in the plugin settings;
* Fix: All plugin strings can now be translated;
* Fix: Files that are not processed by the plugin (e.g. SVG, PDF, etc.) are skipped instead of displaying errors.

2.4.1

Release date: February 27, 2023
* Fix: Videos uploaded with VideoPress were removed from the Media Library when using the “Remove non-existing images” option;

2.4.0

Release date: December 1st 2020
* New: Pause Button;
* New: Resuming process from another page now starts paused;
* New: Added Filter for increasing number of items processed per run;
* Fix: Users optimizing more than 50K images could run into a code loop protection.

2.3.2

Release date: August 17th 2020
* Fix : Regenerate Period now calculates from time set in WordPress to respect timezone settting.

2.3.1

Release date: July 13th 2020
* Fix: PHP warning that was displayed on PHP 7.4.x.

2.3.0

Release date: 29th May 2020
* New system for queuing which should be more efficient;
* New – Added regenerate thumbnails button in edit-attachment screen;
* Fixed – Crash when regenerating image from edit media;
* Fixed – Queries for large amount of images should not timeout;
* Fixes for the responsiveness of the regeneration screen;
* Class loader moved to PSR-4.

2.2.0

Release date: 9th March 2020
* Reworked and improved the process interface
* Option in media library to regenerate just one image
* Will check for post_mime_type in posts and fix it when it’s empty.
* Cookie-based processing removed, now keeps progress as a server setting
* Internal processes optimized.
* Fixed – WordPress 5.3 image handling and scaled images
* Fixed – Metadata not being removed in some cases when “Delete Leftover Image Metadata” is checked.
* Fixed – Logger doesn’t call wp_upload_dir when not debugging

2.1.0

Release date: 7th June 2019
* Replace the two options Exact size for featured/non-featured images with one checkbox Only featured
* Button to stop the regeneration
* Make Keep existing be checked by default
* Change “Regenerate selected thumbnails” checklist to a settings selection
* ShortPixel Image Optimizer integration – call the ‘shortpixel-thumbnails-regenerated’ action passing only the changed sizes
* Fix: Security – Image sizes XSS exploit
* Fix: count(): Parameter must be an array

2.0.1

Release date: 17th April 2019
* Fix warnings related to corrupted metadata in some cases

2.0.0

Release date: 16th April 2019
* Plugin completely rewritten with additional features added:
* Add custom thumbnails
* Select which thumbnails to regenerate
* Regenerate thumbnails only for the featured images
* Rewrite the existing thumbnails or not depending on the selected options
* Integrate seamlessly with ShortPixel Image Optimizer
* Delete unused thumbnails from disk
* Remove metadata for missing images and thumbnails

EARLIER VERSIONS

  • please refer to the changelog.txt file inside the plugin archive for the versions before the 2.0.0 full rewrite.

Works for me (PRO)

By lausianne on April 4, 2024

Fortunately I got the pro version in my Shortpixel subscription. I have not compared it with the free versrion. But pro has been working very well for me. Also, support has been friendly, quick and helpful.

complete disaster

By vlad4x on April 2, 2024

It was a normal and useful plugin. Now it is completely useless. Hopefully I had a backup and kept the old version 2.4.1 that works.

Paid plugin now don't bother

By Artfuldodger (gregg.watson) on April 2, 2024

After the last update, looks like the greedy bastards took away some of most needed features and now you have to pay for it. Plenty of other plugins that do this for free. WTF is Shortpixel thinking?

Used to be a good plugin

By Andrew (antrikos) on March 27, 2024

So all of the sudden they converted the plugin to premium and claim "You will find exciting features in the PRO version".
Well, there is nothing new, there are all the typical features converted to PRO version.
I would really consider buy the PRO version if you added some PRO features in addition to the already free features, but convert the existing features and renaming them as "PRO" is sad.

They have torpedoed this plugin

By whistlerdan on March 2, 2024

I'm a paid Shortpixel subscriber for their image optimization plugin. The regenerate thumbnail plugin was a useful companion plugin, but now they have removed many basic features from the free version and moved them into a "Pro" version for $50/year. I'm sorry, but this is a joke! What were they thinking? I get that there are development costs, but surely this plugin was always just a way to gather customers for the paid image optimization plugins?

Why would I pay this when other plugins do the same things for free?

I feel like, at a minimum, there should have been some combined license so that people who are already paying Shortpixel can still get these features. What attracted me to Shortpixel and caused me to leave Imagify was the ecosystem of useful plugins. Image optimizer, thumbnail regenerate, replace media, etc. Everything played nicely together. Now I'll lose that. Annoying users who never paid them is one thing, but it seems short-sighted to annoy users who are already paying them. It doesn't make me excited to keep paying them.

Should I expect them to start charging for Enable Replace Media plugin soon, too?

Extremely frustrated.

Was a good plugin, disappointed.

By thomastaihei on February 29, 2024

They moved some basic and needed functions to the Paid Zone now.

Now it has been transformed into a paid plugin.

By jubilo on February 12, 2024

They ruined the plugin by offering the same thing it did before but now they are paid options.
The funniest thing is that supposedly in their changelog they "offer new exciting features", of course that is a lie.
Maybe go back to the previous version or uninstall the plugin, probably the second option.

Works fine

By microtag on January 27, 2024

Very useful

Doesn't work, don't waste your time...

By JanPaul999 on December 29, 2023

This plugin pretends like it works, it even pretends showing you the process of your images being resized, and then it shows a success message where they promote their paid service, which is obviously the goal of this plugin.

None of my images were actually resized. I will restore a backup now because who knows - a broken plugin like this may have messed up some things behind the scenes.

I also tested the plugin 'Regenerate Thumbnails By Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)', and that one works perfectly. So you can safely use that instead.

Worked to fix my broken thumbnails

By Tecca on November 12, 2023

Awesome plugin. All I needed was to fix my broken thumbnails from a veeery old website that I've since transferred to a new server/domain.

For some reason, the medium sized thumbnails were completely missing, and although all the full-sized images were there, the site's media looked broken due to having non-existent thumbnails

I added a custom thumbnail size in the plugin based off what I was seeing in the Chrome inspector for the missing images, 780x572, and ran the regenerator. All of the images are now fixed. I believe the size is "approximate" based off how WordPress crops, so not all of the broken nor regenerated images were actually that specific size; the general dimension I put in seemed to fix almost all of the thumbnails. I input another dimension to fix the rest.

Saved me tons of time trying to find a workaround for this, thanks!

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