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Robert O'Rourke

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<h4>What is it?</h4>
<p>A fantastic new plugin that helps you control how WordPress generates thumbnails.</p>
<h4>Why use it?</h4>
<p>When WordPress automatically generates thumbnails, it sometimes doesn’t crop them in a way that is suitable for the image you’ve uploaded. If your image isn’t the correct format, and let’s face it, you never know what images people are uploading – you’ll run the risk of a badly cropped image. Not good.<br />
If you have a full portrait image of a person that you’ve uploaded, but you need the image to appear landscape, you’re in trouble! WordPress will centre the image so that you end up with person’s crotch. Not good. Or let’s say you have a landscape image, with a person’s face on the right hand side, but you need it to display in a square thumbnail. You’ll end up with half a face as WordPress centres the image.</p>
<h4>What does the plugin do?</h4>
<p>You can control how you want your WordPress thumbnails to appear on your website. Regardless of the image format you upload, you can either use the automatic face detector or if you want even more control, you can manually add hotspots.</p>
<h4>How do I use it?</h4>
<p>Navigate to your media library then click on the image you want to edit. Use the detect faces or edit hotspots option to edit your image. You’ll see thumbnail previews when you’ve applied these edits, when you’re happy hit update. Simple.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
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<li>Once the plugin is activated, navigate to your ‘Media Library’.</li>
<li>Click on the image you want to edit to bring up your ‘Edit Media’ options.</li>
<li>You should now be able to see extra image editing options, below the ‘Description’ box.</li>
<li>By clicking ‘Detect faces’ or ‘Add hotspots’ you can now start to edit your image thumbnails.</li>
<li>If you click the ‘Detect faces’ button, it will centre the crop using an average of all the faces it finds.</li>
<li>Please note this is basic face detection and won’t find everything.</li>
<li>You can click and create 1 or several hotspots to centre the crop of your thumbnails, if ‘Detect faces’ doesn’t work.</li>
<li>If you’re happy with your ‘Thumb Previews’ hit save, and you’re done. Simple.</li>
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My Eyes Are Up Here

Wow, this is something that should be a standard tool within the Wordpress CMS. I used on a site of a customer who is using a lot of images with people on it and a lot of times the heads where not on the thumbnails. 
Now it's over with cutting and cropping the hard way, this tool is very easy to use and the possibility of adding hotspots manually makes it perfect. I have done dozen's of post corrections within no time.
One useful tip, when adding a hotspot: aim for the chin. 
This is one of the most useful plugins I have seen within Wordpress.



A very useful addition to the Wordpress CMS

I've been a fan of this plugin for a long time, ever since it came out. I can't even imagine how it works, but it's so so good.

Incredibly clever

My Eyes Are Up Here helps you control how WordPress generates thumbnails.

gelform

<h4>Crop Images in WordPress Easier</h4>
<p>The Problem: You find just the right image for your post …. but getting it to fit with your site design and theme is a chore.</p>
<p>The Solution: Crop.Express speeds up your content workflow, quickly giving you uniform images for your blog posts.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
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<li>NEW! Image Cropper Gutenburg block – do your cropping right in the post</li>
<li>Crop images by ratios, custom dimensions and shapes (including circles for avatars)</li>
<li>Set image sizing defaults — prevent your clients from uploading huge images that slow down their sites</li>
<li>3 native WordPress workflow integrations — crop images in the Media Library, Featured Image and Post/Page with Gutenberg block</li>
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<p>With Crop.Express,</p>
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<p>Upload a new image, or Select an existing image in your Media Library</p>
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<p>Pick from the most popular aspect ratios in WP themes: 16/9, 9/16, 4/3, 3/4. (Or create your own in the Settings)</p>
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<p>Select the shape between: Square, Rectangle, Circle, or your own custom ratio.</p>
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<p>You\’re done!</p>
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<h4>Help Guide the Direction of Crop.Express</h4>
<p>We built this for our own needs and frustrations cropping images in WordPress.</p>
<p>This is our initial version based on our own needs. But we need your input to help us guide the future of this plugin.</p>
<p><a href="https://crop.express/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">https://crop.express/contact</a></p>


Crop Express – For Featured Images, Media Library + Image Cropper Block

Crop images in WordPress easier from featured images + Image Cropper Gutenberg block

My Eyes Are Up Here vs Crop Express – For Featured Images, Media Library + Image Cropper Block