Exclude Image Thumbnails From UpdraftPlus Backups

52 Quality Score

Active Installs

16/30

Around 4,000 active installs is modest but meaningful for a niche extension targeting only UpdraftPlus users, which keeps the popularity score reasonable.

Update Freshness

6/25

The plugin was last updated in February 2025 and is tested against WordPress 6.7.7, but the modest maintenance score reflects a small codebase with infrequent release cadence rather than neglect.

User Rating

15/15

A perfect 100 from 11 raters is impressive but based on a very small sample, so it should be read as encouraging rather than conclusive.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads and zero resolutions indicate either a problem-free plugin or simply that users have not needed help, which leaves the support picture ambiguous.

WP Compatibility

8/15

Compatibility sits in the middle because the plugin requires only WordPress 3.5 and has no stated PHP minimum, yet the lack of an explicit PHP version requirement is a minor concern for modern hosts.

Scores higher than 4% of indexed plugins

About

An UpdraftPlus extension that excludes image size thumbnails, generated by WordPress, from Updraft backups.

Active Installs 4k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2025-02-06 2:29pm GMT

Requires WordPress 3.5+

Tested Up To 6.7.7

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

This plugin hooks into UpdraftPlus to prevent WordPress-generated image thumbnail sizes (the -150x150, -medium, -large, and other intermediate files) from being included in UpdraftPlus backup archives. By filtering these regeneratable files out of the uploads directory, it can shrink backup file sizes substantially on media-heavy sites. Activation is essentially the only step; there are no settings screens to configure.

Who It's For

Photographers, bloggers, and WooCommerce store owners with large media libraries who already rely on UpdraftPlus for backups and want faster, smaller backup archives without losing their originals. It is also a good fit for users on storage-limited remote destinations such as Dropbox free tiers or constrained S3 buckets, where every megabyte saved matters.

Who Should Skip It

Anyone not using UpdraftPlus as their backup solution, since this extension has no effect on other backup plugins. Users with very small image libraries (under a few hundred files) will see negligible savings and do not need the extra moving part in their stack.

The Bottom Line

For UpdraftPlus users drowning in oversized backups caused by regenerated thumbnails, this is a tidy, low-risk plugin that does exactly what it promises. The small user base and lack of public support traffic mean you should not expect rapid troubleshooting if something breaks, and the overall quality score of 52.15/100 reflects that this is a useful niche tool rather than a polished, broadly maintained product.

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