Title: [Plugin: Thumbnail For Excerpts] Image Compression
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Thumbnail For Excerpts] Image Compression

 *  [kaneesha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaneesha/)
 * (@kaneesha)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-thumbnail-for-excerpts-image-compression/)
 * Hi,
 * I use much bigger thumbnails than 150px (in my case 460px & 400px) on my frontpage
   and I’m looking for a way to change the jpeg compression amount for the thumbnails,
   because i get sometimes heavily compressed thumbnails and sometimes thumbnails
   with the original resolution and i really don’t know why.
 * so in fact i need a better resolution for the bigger thumbnails on my frontpage
   if possible.
 * thanks in advance 🙂
 * ps: this is absolutely one of my top favourite plugins for wordpress, so please
   keep the good work up.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/)

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 *  [sloanie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sloanie/)
 * (@sloanie)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-thumbnail-for-excerpts-image-compression/#post-1376021)
 * Just out of curiosity, do you have wordpress set to generate 460 x 400 thumbnails?(
   settings > media in wordpress).
 *  If there’s issues with jpeg compression I think it’d be a wordpress problem 
   and not an issue with this plug-in, I don’t think this plug-in is actually doing
   any thumbnail creation / jpeg compression.
 * (I changed, in the plug-in, my thumbnail dimensions to 300×300 and my images 
   came out all pixelated– the problem was that it uses the default 150×150 thumbnail
   image that wordpress creates when I upload images, so it was just scaling the
   150×150 up to 300×300, resulting in really crappy looking images. If I were you,
   I’d go into “settings > media” and set the thumbnail size to something equal 
   to or higher than what you want the thumbnails to display at (that way you can
   scale down if needed but never worry about crappy resolution when scaling up.)
 * I haven’t tinkered with 400px+ thumbnails, so I don’t know if wordpress is by
   default using a higher amount of compression for thumbnail images.

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 * Last reply from: [sloanie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sloanie/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-thumbnail-for-excerpts-image-compression/#post-1376021)
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