by
Volkmar Kantor
4.6 (67 reviews)
Crop-Thumbnails
"Crop Thumbnails" made it easy to get exacly that specific image-detail you want to show in your featured image or gallery image.
Crop-Thumbnails ranks #810 among WordPress.org plugins with 40,000+ active installations, is #98 of 6,305 in the Media category, a 4.6/5 rating from 67 reviews, and was last updated Dec 3, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1)
v1.9.7
Current Version v1.9.7
Updated 9 months ago
Last Update on 03 Dec, 2025
Refreshed 6 hours ago
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#98 of 6,305 in Media
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- Version
- 1.9.7
- Last Updated
- Dec 03, 2025
- Requires WP
- 5.0+
- Tested Up To
- 6.8
- PHP Version
- 7.4.0 or higher
- Author
- Volkmar Kantor
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TL;DR
AI summary of the plugin's readmeThis plugin is for theme developers and site owners who need precise control over how featured and gallery images are cropped. It solves the problem of default image cropping not capturing the specific detail of a photo you want to display.
- Crop-editor for images
- Adjust crop region
- Multiple image sizes with same ratio
- Buttons on edit-pages
- Buttons in media-dialog
- Hooks and filters for developers
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Crop-Thumbnails
The plugin do not add additional image sizes, it only provides functionality to edit the crop area. You can use "add_image_size" inside your functions.php to add additional cropped image sizes. See "add_image_size" documentation. add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'my_adjust_image_sizes' ); function my_adjust_image_sizes() { //add an cropped image-size with 800 x 250 Pixels add_image_size( 'my-custom-image-size', 800, 250, true ); /** * The following image sizes use a dynamic value. * USE WITH CARE * Also the plugin supports these image-sizes, i do not recommend them! **/ //a dynamic cropped image size with 500 pixel height and the width of the original image add_image_size( 'my-dynamic-width-1', 9999, 500, true ); //a dynamic cropped image with the same ratio as the original image and 500 pixel width add_image_size( 'my-dynamic-zero-height-1', 500, 0, true ); } After you add the image-size any futher image uploads will produce a cropped image "my-custom-image-size" which you can use in post-loop: if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail( 'my-custom-image-size' ); }
The plugin will only crop image-sizes where crop is set to "true" (hard crop mode - see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size). If you had set one image dimension in add_image_size() to "0", the plugin will crop it in the ratio of the original image. If you had set one image dimension in add_image_size() to "9999", the plugin will change the 9999 to the actual size of the current original image. You are able to crop all images with the same ratio at once (default) or and any imagesize (and ratio) seperate.
The "Adavanced Custom Fields" plugin has a functionality to add images to taxonomies. To add cropping functionality on these images you have to add a small code-snippet to your functions.php Have a look on the github readme-page for details. I've cropped the image, but the new version do not appear in the frontend. If you had viewed your image on the site before, your browser has cached the image. You can hard refresh the page by hitting: * "CTRL + F5" (on Windows) * "Apple + R" or "command + R" (on Mac/Apple)
No. The purpose of this plugin is to provide control for the wordpress automatic crop. If you want to crop let's say the full-size image you should a) upload it in a better format in the first place OR b) use the Standard Wordpress-Image editor to crop the image.
A documentation with a list of all actions and filters can be found on the Github page of the project. I have two image-sizes that have nearly the same ratio. I want to make use of the feature "Crop all images with same ratio at once", but cause the ratios are slightly different they wont be selected together. You can add the following filter in the functions.php of your theme to adjust the ratio of one or more specified image-sizes. CAUTION: use only when the ratios are really close. add_filter( 'crop_thumbnails_editor_printratio', 'my_crop_thumbnails_editor_printratio', 10, 2); function my_crop_thumbnails_editor_printratio( $printRatio, $imageSizeName) { if($imageSizeName === 'strange-image-ratio') { $printRatio = '4:3';//do override ratio } return $printRatio; } I display the cropped image in the backend in an custom meta-box. It does not update after the modal-dialog closed. Is there a way to fix this Yeah, there is a way. After the crop-thumbnails-modal closed it triggeres a javascript event on the body element. You could use jQuery to cache-break your cropped thumbnail (in backend-view). The event called "cropThumbnailModalClosed". The plugin also provides a global function that could be called (only in post-edit-view and mediathek) to do the cache-break. Example-Code: $('body').on('cropThumbnailModalClosed',function() { CROP_THUMBNAILS_DO_CACHE_BREAK( $('.your-image-selector') ); });
You may have a look on the Translation Page. I want to contribute code. Fantastic, i published the code on github. But be warned, i am carefully evaluate new features. If you fork and planning to publish the forked plugin, please contact me.
