Title: This plugin rocks!
Last modified: March 30, 2022

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# This plugin rocks!

 *  [quadeg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quadeg/)
 * (@quadeg)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-rocks-55/)
 * Thanks a lot for sharing this, I lost 2+ hours ten days ago looking for a plugin
   that does exactly what this plugin does and I couldn’t find any. I found it today
   by chance, when searching for a plugin to manage the captions of my website’s
   images.
 * **Hint to the Developer**: maybe you should refine the plugin’s description so
   others in the situation I was ten days ago will be able to find it. The keyword
   I used last week, that was of no use, was “force dimensions for all images”, 
   and “force image dimensions on the fly”.
 * I was desperate, after two years having problems with my website’s images. Where
   the mess of different sizes was more evident was when I created views with the
   Content Views plugin and both the sliders and the grids were malformed due to
   the different sizes of the thumbnails.
 * My advice for others looking for a way to make the sizes of their site’s images
   in a WordPress site consistent/uniform in size is this:
 * 1) Don’t use Wordress media sizes in Settings > Media Settings because A) It 
   wastes too much space on the server and B) It degrades the images when it converts
   it to different sizes. Just enter 0 in every size field, and deactivate the “
   Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)” option.
   Only leave the “Organize my uploads into month and year-based folders” option
   enabled, if you think it makes sense to you (it makes sense to me, so I keep 
   this enabled).
 * 2) Don’t ever use a media cleaning plugin, or a regenerate thumbnails plugin.
   This will not solve your problems of having images with different sizes in the
   front end, and it has a high potential of deleting a lot of images that I shouldn’t
   delete, and you will lose a lot of time restoring the images it deleted to the
   post and pages it effaced. I lost the whole Saturday night ten days ago to fix
   the mess that both the “Force Regenerate Thumbnails” and “Media Cleaner” plugins
   did to my website. I was lucky, though, since they deleted only ~30-40 images
   in a website with ~600 images and photos.
 * 3) Install this plugin, because it does exactly what you are looking for.
 * PS: to the developer, I think one feature that would make this plugin a killer
   app 100% (as of now is 95% of a killer app for me) is if you add an option to
   use the image description meta (the description that appears in the attachment
   page) as caption. Like I said, my website has around 600 images and both the 
   alt and the title metas I configured are not really fit to work as thumbnails,
   but the description is. I will look for a plugin that copies the description 
   to the alt field to add captions with your plugin, if I can’t find it I guess
   I will use the nocaption option until either you add the option or I get around
   I spending 3-4 hours coping the description text to the alt text. Anyway, thanks
   a lot again, and sorry if this was a long review.

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