Settings
Five groups, one screen — license, rendering engine, brand identity, automatic generation, and privacy.
Everything Configurable in One Screen
ThumbnailWP → Settings holds everything that isn’t specific to one template: your license, how images render, the assets used by site-wide tags, whether generation happens automatically, and what happens to your data if the plugin is ever removed.
🟦 License & updates
Paste your key from RemotelyLicense.com to unlock automatic updates and support. The plugin generates images the same way with or without an active license — this only controls updates.
🟩 Privacy
Choose exactly what happens if ThumbnailWP is ever uninstalled: keep everything, remove your settings but keep every generated image, or remove both. Nothing is deleted silently — this choice is explicit, and defaults to keeping everything.
🟧 All settings at a glance
| Setting | What it controls | Default |
|---|---|---|
| License key | Unlocks plugin updates and support via RemotelyLicense.com — images render the same either way | (empty) |
| Renderer | Force GD, or let ThumbnailWP use Imagick automatically when the server has it | Automatic |
| Site logo | The image used by the {{site_logo}} tag in templates | (none) |
| Site icon | The image used by the {{site_icon}} tag — falls back to your Settings → General favicon if left empty | (none) |
| Author photo field | The Meta Box/ACF field, on the author’s own profile, used by the {{author_photo}} tag | (empty) |
| Auto-generate on publish | Whether a featured/social image is created automatically the moment a post is published | Enabled |
| On uninstall | Keep everything, remove settings only, or remove settings and every generated image | Keep settings and generated images |