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Regenerate missing thumbnails

Caution: This command changes the system. Understand what it does before you run it.

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user@server
wp media regenerate --only-missing --yes --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs

Goes through all images in the media library and creates only the image sizes that are still missing. Required when a new theme or plugin registers different image sizes. --yes skips the confirmation prompt.

Note: Without --only-missing, all sizes are recalculated. On large media libraries this takes a long time and causes high CPU load, so it is better run outside peak hours.

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