when you start digging into shit, there is always more shit below it, and so was it …
thumbnail handling was still on a darker side of the universe than media library itself, scary shit, media lib is only the litter box where everything is let behind and becomes environmental mass poisoning
firstable, the standard thumbnail sizes supposed by wp’s media settings are from 1589, but we are in 2025 and everybody has good screens, good graphic cards and cpus, even on smartphones, maybe the wp devs are running headless?
secondable, you can not simply change the sizes in settings, it effect uploads from then on, but the old crap stays in the litter box and also it keeps sitting in the DB, that means you most likely run into problems where the client scales up the tiny thumbs instead of downsizing when necessary, and that, comes out with blurry images, ever wonder the shitty image quality on commercial sites? well, now you know why …
last but not least, there are some plugins in the wild, sayin’ they fix that, but guess what, they don’t do shit, they make it worse, all of them, still worse when they start to fiddling around in your database, your site eventual might not survive such an operation, now you know why this kiddies urge to make a backup first …
then we stopped trying to fix that, instead we created the Thumbnail Fixer and that is today a real fine thing which not only maintains a new site on top level, but also can fix deep issues and resurrect old and totally damaged wordpress sites
there are three ways, turn your back, keep suffering or get your site a refresh with wpHakka thumbnail revivor
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