Alex Mills

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.
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.
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.
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.
<h4>Need Help? Found A Bug? Want To Contribute Code?</h4>
Support for this plugin is provided via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smartcrop" rel="ugc">WordPress.org forums</a>.
The source code for this plugin is available on <a href="https://github.com/Viper007Bond/smartcrop" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

SmartCrop

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

yaroinfo

Make your images really responsive with Responsive cropped Yummy images, pictures and thumbnails plugin.
Choose focus in the image for every device (mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop) to deliver the best impression to your customers.
Plugin functionality:
<ul>
<li>Choosing a custom position for crop image for each image size;</li>
<li>Adding and cropping a separate image for each image size.</li>
</ul>
We are planning to provide more functionality very soon when we get good rating for current version:
<ul>
<li>Grouping image sizes in images set;</li>
<li>Saving the parameters of previous cropped images for each image size;</li>
<li>Image size filters for different types of posts;</li>
<li>Creating thumbnails of images in accordance with the filter;</li>
<li>Customize responsive breakpoints;</li>
<li>Changing the width and height of the registered dimensions.</li>
</ul>
Email us if you are interested in updates.

Responsive cropped Yummy images, pictures and thumbnails

Manual cropping of images for different sizes

SmartCrop vs Responsive cropped Yummy images, pictures and thumbnails