Crop-Thumbnails

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 81% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Anthony Hortin

   8mo ago

   Just found this plugin! This is so useful for making custom thumbnail image crops! Thanks for creating a super handy plugin! 👍

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2. ★★★★★ Hilary Caws-Elwitt

   1.0y ago

   A perfect solution for an annoying problem. Thanks, Volkmar!

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3. ★★★★★ jhtjards

   1.8y ago

   Such a great and powerful plugin! And yet no annoying ads and upsells and whatnot. Fast and easy to use, no bloat, no fuzz and it just works. This is the kind of WordPress Plugin I as a developer love and will always keep in my toolkit. Thanks Volkmar!

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4. ★★★★★ cezaro

   3.2y ago

   + easy to use + very useful plugin + nice support

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5. ★★★★★ yikai

   3.2y ago

   easy to use

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6. ★★★★★ hotnewfilm

   3.3y ago

   I’ve been using this plugin for years and I generally have only great things to say about it. Since the last update, though, a resize grid appears over the image you want to crop that you then have to adjust from every direction to your liking. There’s no longer the functionality to click anywhere on the image and create your own image crop. A minor nuisance in the grand scheme of things, but not having this old reliable option anymore does make cropping a bit more time-consuming.

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7. ★★★★★ panonski

   4.1y ago

   I love this kind of plugins…. … Logical, simple to use – and in the end of the day – the job is done ! – Someone said – why WP doesn’t have it – by default. – Luckily for us – there are people which writing great plugins. – BIG THANK YOU !

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8. ★★★★★ Bruno Cantuaria

   4.9y ago

   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.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.9.7 fix the script loading in the backend if using wp_enqueue_script_module Remove legacy filter with typo error: “crop_thumbnails_activat_on_adminpages” update dependencies 1.9.7
2. — Version 1.9.6 change the basesize for cropping from “large” to “full” to prevent that the wrong dimensions are created for the crop 1.9.6
3. — Version 1.9.5 fix wrong filter parameter count for “image_editor_output_format” add filter crop_thumbnails_crop_data to make the crop-area-background-image editable make crop_thumbnails_crop_data_image_sizes deprecated in favor of cro 1.9.5
4. — Version 1.9.4 add wp-api script to wp-backend (seems that wp_enqueue_script_module to not do this on there own) 1.9.4
5. — Version 1.9.3 use rename instead of copy-unlink to move the files from the temporary directory improve logging 1.9.3
6. — Version 1.9.2 hardend the crop solution by calculating the crop region in the frontend lower the minimal wordpress version to 5.0 (add a fallback for wp_enqueue_script_module) 1.9.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 72 languages, 6 at 90% or more

Plus 48 more locales with partial translations.

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Crop-Thumbnails: 40K+ active installs, 4.6★ (67 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/crop-thumbnails