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Thumbnail Upscale

Description

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.

Check screenshots for an example!

Important: Your thumbnails format must have the crop setting enabled to be processed by this plugin.

Usage

After you have enabled Thumbnail Upscale plugin, all your future uploaded images will be upscaled.
For existing images, install and run Force Regenerate Thumbnails
This will upscale your existing media images!

Requirements

  • PHP 5.2 or higher strongly recommended

Translations

None. The plugin has no translateable strings.

Screenshots

  • Grid example: Before
  • Grid example: After

Installation

  1. Upload the thumbnail-upscale folder to /wp-content/plugins/
  2. Activate the plugin (Thumbnail Upscale) through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

FAQ

Installation Instructions
  1. Upload the thumbnail-upscale folder to /wp-content/plugins/
  2. Activate the plugin (Thumbnail Upscale) through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Can you add feature X?

Please write in the support forums for feature requests!

Reviews

Mijdar 10, 2023
That was a pleasant surprise. Still works and did a good job upscaling the image thumbnails.
Mijdar 7, 2018 1 reply
I’ve been using this great plugin for a number of years with no problems. It still works for some images but I have been getting blank images returned. I believe it’s something to do with the srcset parameter WP has introduced.
Tîrmeh 25, 2018
Thanks a lot for this tools ! It works very great with Regenerate Thumbnails plugin ! It saved me a lot of time
Sibat 15, 2018
If you add a new, custom image size (with crop argument set to 1) in WordPress, and uploaded image is smaller than that size, WordPress will not scale it up (effectively breaking the aspect ratio), which might break your design / layout, that depends on certain image size. This plugin scales your image up first, and then crop it, so you always have all sizes ready.
Nîsan 26, 2017
Excelente plugin e trabalhou corretamente com o plugin de redimensionamento Regenerate Thumbnails!
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Contributors & Developers

“Thumbnail Upscale” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.1

  • Fixed crop positions introduced in WordPress 3.9. Props @jackrugile

1.0

Initial release