[Plugin: WP-Filebase Download Manager] Thumbnail Performance Issue

First I’d like to thank you for the great file manager plugin.

I’ve noticed a performance issue with the way thumbnails are displayed. The link to each thumbnail calls a PHP script (i.e.: https://domain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-filebase/wp-filebase_thumb.php?fid=198&name=filename.jpg). This is resource intensive, and has a visibly negative effect on average shared hosting (HostGator, 25 thumbnails on 1 page).

It would be better for performance reasons to just use the direct link for the image (i.e.: https://domain.com/wp-content/uploads/filebase-thumbs/filename.jpg).

I’m currently using the following in my .htaccess file as a temporary workaround:

# Workaround for WP-Filebase thumbnail performance issue.
# WARNING: This only works if all thumbnails are in one folder (no categories) and outside the "filebase" upload folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /wp-filebase_thumb\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} name=([^&]+)
RewriteRule . /wp-content/uploads/filebase-thumbs/%1? [L]

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