Title: Higher Resolution Thumbnails?
Last modified: May 5, 2019

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# Higher Resolution Thumbnails?

 *  Resolved [2xUeL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2xuel/)
 * (@2xuel)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/higher-resolution-thumbnails/)
 * Hello!
 * Thank you for this great plugin, I’ve been using it faithfully and effectively
   for five years now!
 * I’ve been noticing on my 2018 MacBook Pro with retina display (and iPhone 6s 
   Plus) that the WPP thumbnails look low-resolution compared to the other graphics
   on my site. Anything I can do about this?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fhigher-resolution-thumbnails%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/higher-resolution-thumbnails/#post-11498702)
 * Hey there!
 * Well, you could:
    1. Increase the size of the images to twice the size the current thumbnail you’re
       using now and then resize them back to the original dimensions using CSS; or
    2. You could try increasing the compression quality of the thumbnails using the
       [wpp_thumbnail_compression_quality](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/3.-Filters#wpp_thumbnail_compression_quality)
       filter hook; or
    3. A combination of the two previous suggestions.
 * I believe #1 will be the most effective but feel free to play around with the
   suggestions. Whatever you decide on doing though make sure you clear WPP’s thumbnails
   cache first (**Settings > WordPress Popular Posts > Tools**, under **Thumbnails**)
   to have WPP recreate the thumbnails, otherwise you won’t see any changes (and
   if you’re using Cloudflare or any similar CDN service to cache your assets you’ll
   want to clear those caches too.)
 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/higher-resolution-thumbnails/#post-11498725)
 * … or you could switch to the “stock” WP thumbnails (Widgets > WordPress Popular
   Posts > use predefined size). WordPress adds additional image sizes via the `
   srcset` parameter to each image which should help improve the quality of the 
   thumbnails on retina displays (but then you’d probably need to register a new
   image size via `functions.php` with the dimensions of your WPP thumbnails, use
   the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to create images from the new thumbnail size,
   etc.)

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 * Last reply from: [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/higher-resolution-thumbnails/#post-11498725)
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