Admin Columns vs AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild

AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild recreates the resized copies WordPress makes of every image in your media library. It does them one image at a time, so a library of any size gets through without running into the script timeout that stops the plugins which rebuild everything in a single request. You need this whenever the sizes change: a new theme with different dimensions, a plugin that registers a size of its own, or a size you have edited yourself. WordPress applies those to images uploaded afterwards and leaves everything already in the library at its old dimensions. Rebuilding fills the gap. On its screen under Tools you can: Pick which of the registered sizes to rebuild, so a single changed size does not mean redoing all of them. Rebuild only the images used as a featured image – which covers WooCommerce product images and product galleries – or only the file names matching a pattern, e.g. banner-*.jpg. Watch it run: a progress bar, the image being worked on, a Stop button, and a list of anything it had to skip. See every image size registered on the site with its dimensions and crop setting. Clean up the resized files left behind by sizes that no longer exist. You can also work on one image at a time without leaving the media library: a row action rebuilds or optimises a single image, a bulk action hands a selection to the plugin’s screen, and the attachment details panel – wherever it opens – rebuilds, optimises, or replaces the file. A replaced image keeps its id, title and address, so every post and product already pointing at it shows the new picture. Beyond rebuilding, each of these is off until you turn it on: Uploads. How hard WordPress compresses the copies it writes, and how large an image may stay before it is scaled down. Optimising. Makes files smaller without resizing them, using the optimisers installed on the server – jpegoptim, optipng, gifsicle, and pngquant where lossy PNG is allowed. Where a host has none, TinyPNG or ShortPixel can do the same job over their API. A file is replaced only when the new one is genuinely smaller. AVIF and WebP copies. Written next to every image WordPress generates and served through a picture element, AVIF first, WebP after it, the original as the fallback – which works behind a page cache. Background processing. Optimising and the copies are the slow half of an upload. Queue them instead, and the upload finishes as soon as the sizes are written – on Action Scheduler where the site has it, on WP-Cron where it does not. Image proxy. Front end image URLs can be served through wsrv.nl, which resizes and re-encodes on the fly and serves the result from a CDN. Your own files are never touched. Sizes on demand. An upload keeps only its own file, and each size is cut the first time something asks for it. This plugin requires JavaScript to be enabled. Contributions are welcome at Github

Admin Columns lets you customize and organize the columns displayed in the WordPress admin list tables for posts, pages, users, comments and media. Instead of the limited default list table, you get to display the information you actually need – like custom fields, featured images, taxonomies, file data and more. Trusted by 100,000+ WordPress sites worldwide. With a simple drag-and-drop interface you can: Add any column to posts, pages, users, media and comments Reorder and resize columns to match your workflow Choose from 200+ column types including custom fields, taxonomies and file data Display rich metadata such as images, dates, colors and relational fields Create clean overviews for even the most complex websites It works for any site from simple blogs to large WooCommerce stores. Why Admin Columns? Default WordPress list tables are limited. They often show only the title, author and date. Admin Columns turns them into useful management screens that show you what matters. Examples: See featured images, custom fields and taxonomies directly in the post list table Display media file size, dimensions or EXIF data View user metadata and roles in the users screen Keep track of large content libraries Popular use cases Admin Columns is used by developers, agencies and site owners to manage content more efficiently. Common setups: Managing WooCommerce products with price, SKU or stock columns Displaying ACF custom fields in post list tables Organizing large media libraries Reviewing SEO metadata from Yoast Organizing custom post types with the right columns Built for developers Admin Columns is open source and built to be extended. Use actions and filters to register custom column types, modify output or integrate with your own plugins. Full hooks and filters reference for custom integrations Register column configurations in PHP for version-controlled setups Designed to work alongside page builders, custom post type plugins and third-party extensions Explore the developer documentation. Admin Columns Pro Upgrade to Admin Columns Pro for sorting, filtering, inline editing and more. With Pro you can: Sort any column Filter content with stackable smart filters Inline editing – edit titles, custom fields, taxonomies and more directly from the list table Bulk editing – update multiple items at once Conditional formatting – color-code rows and cells based on rules Export to CSV Import/export column sets between sites or team members Save to PHP for version-controlled column configurations Admin Columns Pro also provides deep integrations with popular plugins: Advanced Custom Fields – display and edit all field types WooCommerce – product and order columns Yoast SEO – SEO score and metadata columns Toolset Types – custom fields and relationships Pods – Pods fields and content types Learn more about the additional features of Admin Columns Pro on our website: Upgrade to Admin Columns Pro Supported content types Admin Columns works with the following WordPress admin screens: Posts, Pages and Custom Post Types Users Media Library Comments Taxonomies (Pro) Custom field column Admin Columns allows you to display custom fields (post meta and user meta) directly in the admin list table. Supported field formats include: Color Date Images Number Text URL True/False Relational: Posts, Users and Media Docs & Support Is this your first time using Admin Columns? Check out our documentation and guides: Documentation Getting Started Developer documentation Need help? Please visit the Admin Columns support forums. Contribute Admin Columns is open source and community-driven. There are several ways to contribute: Translate: Help translate Admin Columns on WordPress.org or Pro translations on Transifex Report issues: Found a bug? Report it on GitHub Suggest features: Submit ideas to our public roadmap