Title: Automatic Thumbnail generation
Last modified: October 1, 2024

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# Automatic Thumbnail generation

 *  [magicmax67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magicmax67/)
 * (@magicmax67)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-thumbnail-generation-3/)
 * How does this option work? 
   Through wordpress cron, do you have to set an external
   cron or something else? I enabled “Enable automatic generation of missing thumbnails”
   in Global Options but my missing thumbnails are not generated. One at a time 
   instead works fine from the individual link admin page.Thank you for your job.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fautomatic-thumbnail-generation-3%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 * Last activity: [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-thumbnail-generation-3/)
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