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About reGenerate Thumbnails Advanced
The reGenerate Thumbnails Advanced (RTA) plugin is a free and easy-to-use tool for regenerating thumbnails on your WordPress website. It's perfect for when you switch to a new theme with different image sizes. The plugin also offers a Pro version with additional features such as WP-CLI support, automatic removal of outdated thumbnails, and integration with ShortPixel Image Optimizer for thumbnail compression and enhanced functionality.Screenshots
Frequently asked questions
What is reGenerate Thumbnails Advanced (RTA)?
reGenerate Thumbnails Advanced (RTA) is a free, fast, and easy-to-use WordPress plugin for regenerating thumbnails. It is created and maintained by the team behind ShortPixel Image Optimizer. The plugin is ideal for updating old thumbnails to fit new WordPress themes with different image sizes.
What are some key features of the free version of reGenerate Thumbnails Advanced?
The free version allows you to regenerate thumbnails only for featured images and customize the thumbnail list by adding additional sizes. It also offers a clean interface with a progress bar, statistics, and a "Resume" feature for interrupted processes. The plugin is fully integrated with ShortPixel Image Optimizer for thumbnails compression.
What additional features are available in the PRO version?
The PRO version includes WP-CLI support for regenerating thumbnails, which is useful for websites with many images or limited wp-admin resources. It also offers automatic removal of outdated and unused thumbnails. Additionally, you can choose to delete metadata for missing images and thumbnails, and remove them from the media library.
Changelog
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.
