Title: [Plugin: Simple Post Thumbnails] Timthumb performance issue – important.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Simple Post Thumbnails] Timthumb performance issue – important.

 *  [piter45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piter45/)
 * (@piter45)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simple-post-thumbnails-timthumb-performance-issue/)
 * Hello,
 * When I use this function:
    `p75GetThumbnail(int $postID, [int $width, [int $height,[
   string $fileType]]])` It outputs an URL to the timthumb.php which then converts
   image on the server side to the right dimension. The problem is, when I have 
   15 posts on one page with `p75GetThumbnail` it makes my server CPU overload 🙁
   This only happens with `p75GetThumbnail` function.
 * The `p75GetOriginalImage(int $postID)` function works without any performance
   issues, because it outputs just the image URL, without calling timthumb.php.
 * Could you somehow fix the plugin, so It can upload the cropped and scaled image
   straight to the server /thumbnails/ folder? So it can output the scaled image
   without calling timthumb.php when a visitor enters the site each time.
 * Please consider this. I have 1000 visitors a day on my blog, and I cannot use
   the `p75GetThumbnail` function, because timthumb causes CPU overload 🙁 (Meaning
   I cannot scale images to the right dimension)
 * Any help greatly appreciated,
    Thanks, Peter

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 *  [indy1307](https://wordpress.org/support/users/indy1307/)
 * (@indy1307)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simple-post-thumbnails-timthumb-performance-issue/#post-1130185)
 * Try Simple Post Thumbnails plugin, it makes own thumbnails.

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