Yuriy Stepanov

<p>The pluginplug-in, with two additional SQL queries, joins the original data sample $wp_query->posts all meta fields, all files and images, for each image the direct url to small, medium, and large image is formed. There’s no need to use functions the_post_thumbnail  and get_post_meta.</p>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<p>So let’s say we go to the home page of our blog, WordPress gives us a list of the latest 10 records. Let me remind you these are already in the global object in the array $wp_query-> posts. Let’s begin from creating a list of ID (number of records to which they are stored in the database).</p>
<h4>Form the first SQL query:</h4>
<ul>
<li>$query = “SELECT $wpdb->posts.* FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE  $wpdb->posts.post_parent IN(’21’,’29’,’30’,’35’,’38’,’42’,’46’,’48’,’49’,’55’) AND $wpdb->posts.post_parent<br />
AND $wpdb->posts.post_type = ‘attachment'”;</li>
</ul>
<p>A normal translation is «find all the child entries for entries with the numbers (’21 ‘, ’29?, ’30 ‘, ’35?, ’38 ‘, ’42?, ’46 ‘, ’48?, ’49 ‘, ’55 ‘)». And the type of records required to be «attachment». That is, in short, we find all the files (attachment) which we downloaded for our 10 entries.</p>
<p>Again we form a list of ID: the first 10 ID entries and add the ID of files (attachments). Attachments as ordinary records are stored in one table – wp_posts.</p>
<h4>Now we use the function update_meta_cache:</h4>
<ul>
<li>$all_meta = update_meta_cache(‘post’, $ar_all_id);</li>
</ul>
<p>$ar_all_id – here are the original recordings and attachments</p>
<p>So everything just gets in the cache and subsequent calls get_post_meta will derive value from the cache. The rest is a matter of technique – the data must be carefully arranged, not mixing anything up. All meta fields are added to the $post->meta array, and files into an $post->files array and files are immediately sorted by number order (when downloading it, you can specify the sort order).<br />
In addition, for each file, if it is an image, the full path to the thumbnails is calculated: small (thumbnail), average (medium) and the complete picture (full).</p>
<h4>WordPres 4:</h4>
<p>The default filter is only connected to the main query using is_main_query().<br />
Does not work in is_admin() or is_page().</p>
<p><a href="http://bugacms.com/wpEn/all-inclusive/" rel="nofollow ugc">Home page</a><br />
<a href="http://bugacms.com/wpRu/all-inclusive/" rel="nofollow ugc">Русская страница</a></p>
<h3>A brief Markdown Example</h3>
<p><a href="http://bugacms.com/wpEn/all-inclusive/" rel="nofollow ugc">More PHP code Examples</a><br />
<a href="http://bugacms.com/wpRu/all-inclusive/" rel="nofollow ugc">Больше примеров</a></p>


All Inclusive

The pluginplug-in, with two additional SQL queries, joins the original data sample $wp_query->posts all meta fields, all files and images.

Alex Mills

<p>Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate all thumbnail sizes for one or more images that have been uploaded to your Media Library.</p>
<p>This is useful for situations such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>A new thumbnail size has been added and you want past uploads to have a thumbnail in that size.</li>
<li>You’ve changed the dimensions of an existing thumbnail size, for example via Settings â Media.</li>
<li>You’ve switched to a new WordPress theme that uses featured images of a different size.</li>
</ul>
<p>It also offers the ability to delete old, unused thumbnails in order to free up server space.</p>
<h4>In Memory of Alex Mills</h4>
<p>In February 2019 Alex Mills, the author of this plugin, <a href="https://alex.blog/2019/02/27/from-alexs-family/" rel="nofollow ugc">passed away</a>. He leaves behind a number of plugins which will be maintained by Automattic and members of the WordPress community. If this plugin is useful to you please consider donating to the Oregon Health and Science University. You can find more information <a href="https://alex.blog/2019/03/13/in-memory-of-alex-donation-link-update/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<h4>Alternatives</h4>
<p><strong>WP-CLI</strong></p>
<p>If you have command line access to your server, I highly recommend using <a href="https://wp-cli.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-CLI</a> instead of this plugin as it’s faster (no HTTP requests overhead) and can be run inside of a <code>screen</code> for those with many thumbnails. For details, see the documentation of its <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/media/regenerate/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>media regenerate</code> command</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Jetpack’s Photon Module</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://jetpack.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jetpack</a> is a plugin by Automattic, makers of WordPress.com. It gives your self-hosted WordPress site some of the functionality that is available to WordPress.com-hosted sites.</p>
<p><a href="https://jetpack.com/support/photon/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Photon module</a> makes the images on your site be served from WordPress.com’s global content delivery network (CDN) which should speed up the loading of images. Importantly though it can create thumbnails on the fly which means you’ll never need to use this plugin.</p>
<p>I personally use Photon on my own website.</p>
<p><em>Disclaimer: I work for Automattic but I would recommend Photon even if I didn’t.</em></p>
<h4>Need Help? Found A Bug? Want To Contribute Code?</h4>
<p>Support for this plugin is provided via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/regenerate-thumbnails" rel="ugc">WordPress.org forums</a>.</p>
<p>The source code for this plugin is available on <a href="https://github.com/automattic/regenerate-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>


Regenerate Thumbnails

I'm a longtime WP dev and if you need to regenerate thumbnails its the way to go.

I appreciate the fact its free, this is what makes WP great

5 Stars


I can't even remember for how long I've been using this plugin from time to time... Miss you Alex... I'm sure you're smiling from up above 3> 


Thanks, Alex...

Regenerate the thumbnails for one or more of your image uploads. Useful when changing their sizes or your theme.

All Inclusive vs Regenerate Thumbnails