Title: Feature request: add a Pause button
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Feature request: add a Pause button

 *  [Marcelo Pedra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kent-brockman/)
 * (@kent-brockman)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-add-a-pause-button/)
 * Hello! The plugin works great in my scenarios. But when it comes to process huge
   amounts of images, it can really last almost 15 hours to complete the task. I’m
   talking about large ecommerce websites, when you need to change something at 
   design level or even changing the theme may require you to resize all the product
   images.
    If processing the images may take so many hours, you will surely be 
   running the process at the same time high traffic is on the website. Such situations
   may lead to high cpu usage for several hours. In those scenarios -which are very
   common to me- a Pause button would be really appreciated. Is this possible to
   accomplish?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-add-a-pause-button/#post-6805301)
 * With that many images, if you have SSH access to your server, then I recommend
   that you use WP-CLI instead of my plugin. It will be faster and also allow you
   to easily batch up your resizes into smaller chunks if you want to only do a 
   set amount at a time.
 * For details, see [http://wp-cli.org/commands/media/regenerate/](http://wp-cli.org/commands/media/regenerate/)
 * If you don’t have SSH access to your server and need to continue to use my plugin,
   I plan on adding a pause button to the next release.
 * I’ve opened an issue so that I don’t forget: [https://github.com/Viper007Bond/regenerate-thumbnails/issues/21](https://github.com/Viper007Bond/regenerate-thumbnails/issues/21)
 *  Thread Starter [Marcelo Pedra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kent-brockman/)
 * (@kent-brockman)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-add-a-pause-button/#post-6805434)
 * Thanks Alex! I’ll follow this from GitHub. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Marcelo Pedra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kent-brockman/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-add-a-pause-button/#post-6805434)
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