Lean Media

Easily control whether the featured image appears in the single post or page view (doesn't hide it in archive/list view).

Rebuild your media library one image at a time, without script timeouts - and optimise, replace, or write WebP and AVIF copies of your images.

Automatically generate the featured image from the image of the post.

Makes video thumbnails, allows resolution switching, and embeds responsive self-hosted videos and galleries.

Creates post thumbnails on fly and cache the result. Auto-create of post thumbnails based on: WP post thumbnail OR first img in post content OR attach …

Plugin allows you to manually crop all the image sizes registered in your WordPress theme (in particular featured image).