Mark Jansen

<p>Get the first image from the content of a post and set that image as a featured image.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Select the (custom) post type for which you want to set the featured images</li>
<li>Ability to overwrite existing featured images.</li>
</ul>


WP Set Featured Image From Content

Get image from content to set as featured image

Volkmar Kantor

<p>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.<br />
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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://github.com/vollyimnetz/crop-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">github page of the plugin</a>.</p>


Crop-Thumbnails

Amazing work on this plugin. It make developers and users life easier creating a handy-way to crop thumbnails in the used sizes across the site.

Where's the button "This plugin should be native"?

"Crop Thumbnails" made it easy to get exacly that specific image-detail you want to show in your featured image or gallery image.

WP Set Featured Image From Content vs Crop-Thumbnails