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.
4.6(67 reviews)
·40K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Crop-Thumbnails is a WordPress images plugin with 40K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 67 reviews. It has been downloaded 839K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Downloads are down 18% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
4.6/567 reviews
40K+active installs
0%resolved
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
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.
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.
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 github page of the plugin.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Simple and works perfectly for cropping thumbnails
by Anthony Hortin·3 months ago
Just found this plugin! This is so useful for making custom thumbnail image crops! Thanks for creating a super handy plugin! 👍
Does what it says on the tin!
by Hilary Caws-Elwitt·7 months ago
A perfect solution for an annoying problem. Thanks, Volkmar!
Clean, lean and so useful!
by jhtjards·1 year 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!
Really great plugin
by cezaro·2 years ago
+ easy to use
+ very useful plugin
+ nice support
great plugin
by yikai·2 years ago
easy to use
Download Trends
Today: 138Yesterday: 189This week: 1KPeriod total: 116K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.9
78.1%
Other
10.1%
v1.4
6.2%
v1.8
5.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
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
Contributors
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