So, I’ve been dabbling with WordPress for some time and I have loved every bit of it. I even helped a few people along the way. Learned many things and met and talked to many more. Every day I do feel like I am learning something new. Whether that is how to
enqueue
a certain file, how to remove certain things, how to style and just how to do more things in a different fashion.
It has been amazing! I think the biggest thing taken from all of this is that I need to start sharing a bit more. So I’ll begin with a simple plugin that I feel just about any person using WordPress should at least try out.
That plugin is: Regenerate Thumbnails
But why?
Yes, I know WordPress already has a way of creating custom thumbnails but what if you don’t want to click on several photos. What if you just installed a new theme and the images are looking all funky? What happens when you have to resize and you have hundreds of images? I know I have several photos in my library and don’t always have the time to go to PhotoShop and readjust every single image. Who does?
I know I don’t always have that time. What the plugin actually does is go through the entire
wp-content
folder and regenerates all the thumbnails.
Thumbnails?
Yes. Often times when you set a featured image on a post a theme handles the sizing of the image. Some don’t touch it at all and some alter the dimensions to better fit the overall design. While I know that very few companies will actually change their site’s theme it is a very important thing to keep all elements of a site united.
I am sharing this for those that have blogs and are changing the theme every so often and for developers that like to try to break themes.
So by all means, go and try it out. You will not be let down either way.