"Crop Thumbnails" made it easy to get exacly that specific image-detail you want to show in your featured image or gallery image.
| Last updated | December 3, 2025Updated in the last year |
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| Tested up to | WordPress 6.8.12Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4.0 or newer |
| First published | November 15, 2012 |
| Support, last two months | 0 of 1 threads resolved (0%) |
4.6 / 5 from 67 reviews
| 5 stars | 58 |
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| 4 stars | 2 |
| 3 stars | 1 |
| 2 stars | 2 |
| 1 star | 4 |
The plugin provides the functionality to adjust the crop region of cropped images. It add buttons to the edit-pages and media-dialog to access a crop-editor.
In the crop-editor you can choose one or more (if they have the same ratio) imagesizes and cut-off the part of the image you want.
The plugin is especially useful for theme developers who want to keep full control over cropped image sizes. If you want to dive even deeper, you can get informations about the hooks and filters on the github page of the plugin.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
The plugin do not add additional image sizes, it only provides functionality to edit the crop area.
You can use “add_image_size” inside your functions.php to add additional cropped image sizes. See “add_image_size” documentation.
The “Adavanced Custom Fields” plugin has a functionality to add images to taxonomies. To add cropping functionality on these images you have to add a small code-snippet to your functions.php
Have a look on the github readme-page for details.
If you had viewed your image on the site before, your browser has cached the image. You can hard refresh the page by hitting:
* “CTRL + F5” (on Windows)
* “Apple + R” or “command + R” (on Mac/Apple)
No. The purpose of this plugin is to provide control for the wordpress automatic crop. If you want to crop let’s say the full-size image you should
A documentation with a list of all actions and filters can be found on the Github page of the project.
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Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.