Alex Mills

<p>By default, WordPress uses the center of an image when creating cropped thumbnails. SmartCrop attempts to find and use the most interesting part of an image and centers the cropping on that portion of the image.</p>
<p>This process is entirely automatic and cannot be manually controlled. There are other plugins out there if you wish to manually specify where you want thumbnails to be cropped.</p>
<p>Since this analysis process can be slow on large images, thumbnails are initially center cropped and later asynchronously regenerated to be smartly cropped. This avoids the uploading of new images from being slow. The one side effect of this however is that your browser may load and cache the centered thumbnail before it’s re-cropped.</p>
<p>Want to smartly crop your past image uploads? You can use my <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/" rel="ugc">Regenerate Thumbnails</a> plugin to trigger that. Make sure to uncheck skipping existing thumbnails.</p>
<h4>Need Help? Found A Bug? Want To Contribute Code?</h4>
<p>Support for this plugin is provided via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smartcrop" rel="ugc">WordPress.org forums</a>.</p>
<p>The source code for this plugin is available on <a href="https://github.com/Viper007Bond/smartcrop" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>


SmartCrop

Instead of cropping to the center of an image, SmartCrop attempts to use the most interesting part of the image for the thumbnail.

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<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>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<p>With Crop.Express,</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Upload a new image, or Select an existing image in your Media Library</p>
</li>
<li>
<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>
</li>
<li>
<p>Select the shape between: Square, Rectangle, Circle, or your own custom ratio.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>You\’re done!</p>
</li>
</ol>
<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

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