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.

Installation

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

Screenshots

Grid example: Before
Grid example: After

Faq

Installation Instructions

Upload the thumbnail-upscale folder to /wp-content/plugins/
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

Still works

By alexio101 on November 10, 2023

That was a pleasant surprise. Still works and did a good job upscaling the image thumbnails.

It’s still relevant god damn it

By Denis (paradoxetion) on July 8, 2019

Whaaaaat? You don't use this plugin? It's good.

Not working 100% anymore

By kush1960 on November 7, 2018

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.

Works like a charm !

By deimz on July 25, 2018

Thanks a lot for this tools ! It works very great with Regenerate Thumbnails plugin ! It saved me a lot of time

Exactly what I needed

By Selrond on February 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.

Muito bom!

By samuel.arendt (chryso) on April 26, 2017

Excelente plugin e trabalhou corretamente com o plugin de redimensionamento Regenerate Thumbnails!

Very Usefull

By pixelmac on January 30, 2017

This plugin is very usefull for clients.

Works as expected

By Oliver Lippert (lippoliv) on January 14, 2017

Simple Plugin. Just install and use it (may force rebuild of old thumbnails). Nice Job. Thanks man.

It works nicely!

By (htrex) on November 10, 2016

There are no settings, just install it and it works, thanks to the author!

Awesome

By rossipaolo7d on September 3, 2016

No hassle, just works immediatly.

Changelog

1.1

Fixed crop positions introduced in WordPress 3.9. Props @jackrugile

1.0

Initial release