Thumbnail Manager / Getting Started August 3, 2026

What Thumbnail Manager Does

Understand registered sizes, missing thumbnails, recommendations, resumable jobs, and review-first pruning.

Applies to 1.4.0+ Free Stable Verified July 29, 2026

Thumbnail Manager helps control future thumbnail generation, rebuild missing sizes, and delete only an explicitly reviewed generated-file manifest.

Thumbnail Manager tabs and Regenerate screen with missing-only and force-regenerate modes
The stable 1.4.0 interface separates regeneration, recommendations, reviewed pruning, and future thumbnail-size settings.

Open the feature

Go to Tools > Thumbnails.

Before you start

  • Back up the uploads directory before regeneration or pruning.
  1. Run Recommendations.
  2. Review and save future Thumbnail Sizes.
  3. Regenerate missing sizes.
  4. Scan, review, and explicitly approve a Prune manifest only when appropriate.

What success looks like

  • Original full-size uploads remain protected.
  • Long operations can resume after reload or interruption.

Important notes

  • Thumbnail Manager does not compress images or replace a CDN/image optimizer.

Release and support resources

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