WordPress users do know the importance thumbnails. Generally we use two types of thumbnails on our sites one is image thumbnail and another one is video thumbnail, both are small or resized version and are related to your website content. A right and well created thumbnail not only draws user’s attention but also helps you to engage your visitors which results in more traffic, sales and business.
Though there are plenty of WordPress thumbnails plugins out there but finding a right one is real pain. Therefore in this article we have compiled a list of 15 Best WordPress Thumbnail Plugins which will allow you to create beautiful thumbnails for your website’s content and make your websites look visually stunning and beautiful.
1. Video Thumbnails
Video Thumbnails makes it easy to automatically display video thumbnails in your template. When you publish a post, this plugin will find the first video embedded and retrieve a thumbnail for you. Thumbnails can be saved to your media library and set as a featured image automatically. There’s even support for custom post types and custom fields!
This plugin supports plenty of sites like Youtube, Viemo, Facebook, Vine, Google Drive, Twitch, Metacafe , CollegeHumor and much more.
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2. Regenerate Thumbnails
Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments. This is very handy if you’ve changed any of your thumbnail dimensions (via Settings -> Media) after previously uploading images or have changed to a theme with different featured post image dimensions.
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3. Multiple Post Thumbnails
This plugin adds multiple post thumbnails to a post type. If you’ve ever wanted more than one Featured Image on a post, this plugin is for you.
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4. Related Post Thumbnails
This plugin will add related posts thumbnails after the post. Plugin allows to customize thumbnail sizes, display settings and type of relation.
By default it uses generated by WordPress thumbnail for the first image appeared in the post that was uploaded on the server with sizes as set in Media settings. You can select between ‘thumbnail’ and ‘medium’ size options.
You can specify number of related posts to display, start date, categories to show on and to include, top text, style settings, default image URL. You can select type of relation – categories, tags, categories and tags, random or custom taxonomies. You can specify where to display related posts – choose page type (main or single), post type and select categories.
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5. Ultimate Post Thumbnails
This plugin turns your post/work thumbnail to a responsive slideshow of multiple images in no time. It adds extra options to help you easily set thumbnail link. Ultimate Post Thumbnails also automatically matches theme styles and even animations, and includes a beautiful and powerful lightbox.
The drag-and-drop backend is not only easy to use, but also provides many advanced options, much more!
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6. Facebook Thumb Fixer
This plug-in is for those who have the problem where sharing a post on Facebook shows the wrong (or no) thumbnail image.
It works by making sure the thumbnail is derived from the featured image of your post. If your post doesn’t have a featured image then it will use a fall-back image that you can specify.
The plug-in inserts the open graph meta properties, which Facebook and other social services look for when someone shares your page. These properties contain information about the page and of course the image you specify.
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7. Dynamic Featured Image
Dynamically adds multiple featured image or multiple post thumbnail functionality to your page, posts and custom post types. This plugin provides you an interface to add any number of featured image as you want without writing a single line of code. These featured images can then be collected by the various theme functions.
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8. Ajax Thumbnail Rebuild
AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild allows you to rebuild all thumbnails on your site. There are already some plugins available for this, but they have one thing in common: All thumbnails are rebuilt in a single step. This works fine when you don’t have that many photos on your site.
When you have a lot of full-size photos, the script on the server side takes a long time to run. Unfortunately the time a script is allowed to run is limited, which sets an upper limit to the number of thumbnails you can regenerate.
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9. Force Regenerate Thumbnails
This is one of the widely used plugin with more than 300k active installs. This plugin allows you to delete all old images size and regenerates the thumbnails for your image attachments.
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10. Auto Post Thumbnail Pro
This is a premium plugin which generates featured Image (AKA Post Thumbnail) from first image in a post or any custom post type content. The plugin will also create thumbnails from several popular video services if it finds a video.
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11. OTF Regenerate Thumbnails
This plugin behaves similarly to Regenerate Thumbnails except that images are resized automatically / on the fly, when they are used. Once created, they won’t be processed again.
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12. Thumbnail Gallery
This Plugin will help you to easily add a thumbnail gallery to your WordPress website or blog. The gallery is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones). You will be able to insert it in any page or post you want with inbuilt short code generator.
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13. Thumbnail Upscale
This plugin enables upscaling of thumbnails for small media attachments. The default behaviour of WordPress is to not upscale small images, which means you are never guaranteed a certain size for a thumbnail format. This plugin corrects that and upscales small images to the specified thumbnail dimensions. This is beneficial in grid layouts where images of different sizes can make the grid malfunction.
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14. Auto Post Thumbnail
Auto post thumbnail is a plugin to generate post thumbnail from first image in post or any custom post type. If the first image doesn’t work it will automatically search for the next one and so on until the post thumbnail is inserted.
If the post thumbnail is already present, the plugin will do nothing. If you don’t want a post thumbnail for some post with images, just add a custom field skip_post_thumb to the post and the plugin will restrain itself from generating post thumbnail. The plugin also provides a Batch Processing capability to generate post thumbnails for already published posts. A new menu item Gen. Post Thumbnails will get added under Tools menu after this plugin is installed.
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15. Team Showcase WordPress Plugin
With this plugin you can display a set of pictures and information in different layouts. The main purpose of the plugin is to display team/staff members, but it can be used for other purposes.
It’s perfect to display the members of your staff, team or working force, even divided by categories or groups! You can also use it to display testimonials or other kinds of content that require an image and text!
The members will display in a responsive grid with the number of columns you set and with the information to the right, left or below the image, depending on your settings.
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