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.

Jason

<p>When using a theme with Theme Blvd Framework version 2.2+, this plugin allows you to change your theme’s image sizes.</p>
<h4>Who is this plugin for?</h4>
<p>This plugin is mainly designed for non-developers who want to alter the image sizes for their Theme Blvd theme, but do not have the necessary development knowledge to manually make the changes from their child theme.</p>
<h4>How does this plugin work?</h4>
<p>As in any WordPress theme, we setup the image sizes by using WordPress’s <em>add_image_size</em> function for each crop size. However, before these images are registered, the Theme Blvd framework applies a filter to an array of the sizes to be registered.</p>
<p>This allows for all of the image sizes of the theme to be easily filtered from your child theme or from a plugin… and this would be an example of a plugin that utilizes that. 🙂</p>
<h4>Do I have to use this plugin to change image sizes?</h4>
<p>Nope. In fact, if you understand the basics of PHP and the WordPress filters API, I would suggest that you do not use this plugin and instead, you manually make the changes from your child theme’s <em>functions.php</em>. Realistically, running this plugin requires extra resources on your server that can be avoided by just manually make the change you want from your child theme.</p>
<p>If you’d like to dive into a little development action, and accomplish the gist of what this plugin does, you’d simply do something like this from your child theme:</p>
<pre><code>function my_image_sizes( $sizes ) {
    $sizes['slider-large'] = array(
        'width' => '960', // Your new width
        'height' => '350' // Your new height
    );
    return $sizes;
}
add_filter( 'themeblvd_image_sizes', 'my_image_sizes' );
</code></pre>


Theme Blvd Image Sizes

When using a theme with Theme Blvd Framework version 2.2+, this plugin allows you to change your theme's image sizes.

SmartCrop vs Theme Blvd Image Sizes