Image Thumbnails are really important part of any website these days. However, if the thumbnail is not set perfectly it may break the layout of your site and make your site look ugly.

If you have a grid layout based website, the thumbnail becomes even more important. It has to be perfect in terms of dimension otherwise the columns will not match to each other.

In this post we have collected some amazing WordPress thumbnail plugins which will make sure that all your thumbnails are set perfectly.

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Post Thumbnail Editor

This plugin helps you to edit your image thumbnails easily. If the image thumbnails are breaking the layout of your site, this plugin can probably help you to get that resolved.

Crop-Thumbnails

An amazing WordPress thumbnail plugin which provides you simple solution to crop your image thumbnails. It add links on backend to enter all images you had attached to a post, page or custom-post.

In the Crop-Editor you can choose one or more image sizes and cut-off the part of the image you want.

Regenerate Thumbnails

A very popular WordPress thumbnail plugin to resolve issues with image thumbnail. 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.

Force Regenerate Thumbnails

Force Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to delete all old images size and REALLY regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments. This plugin can really help you if you change your theme and the new theme thumbnail dimension is different from the old one.

Video Thumbnails

Video Thumbnails makes it easy to automatically display video thumbnails on your site. 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.This plugin also has a pro version which provides few some amazing features.

Magic Post Thumbnail

This plugin will automatically add a thumbnail for your posts by retrieving first image from Google Images based on post title and add it as your featured thumbnail when you publish/update it.

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.

Multiple Post Thumbnails

Did you ever wanted to have more than one thumbnail image for your post. If yes this plugin is for you. After installation you will get an option to upload more than one featured image for your post.

Default Thumbnail Plus

A really useful WordPress thumbnail plugin, it will automatically display a default Post Thumbnail image, either the first image attached to a post, or set default images for specific categories, tags, or custom taxonomies.

WordPress responsive thumbnail slider

The WordPress Responsive Thumbnail Slider will let you create beautiful responsive image slider for WordPress blogs and sites. Admin can manages any number of images into the responsive slider. Admin can add,edit and delete slider images

Nelio External Featured Image

This plugin helps you to set a featured image from an external URL. If you have two sites and you want to set an image on the other site as the featured image for the second one, this plugin can help you to achieve that.