As of April 2026, WP SmartCrop is a WordPress crop plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 124K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 25% this week. Top alternative: Advanced Custom Fields: Image Aspect….
3.7/59 reviews
4.0K+active installs
124K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
WP SmartCrop allows you to set the ‘focal point’ of any image, right from the media library, then crops your images to match your css rules (no more squished aspect ratios), keeping that focal point, not only in view, but as near as possible to a ‘rule of thirds’ position in the image. The results are powerful, composed photos at any screen size, with any constraints.
- Visually select your images’ focal points with an intuitive click-based interface
- Quickly enable or disable smart-cropping on a per-image basis.
- Easily target only the images you want to style, with the img.wpsmartcrop-image selector
- Automatic image preloader, so your users never see partially loaded images again
- Semantic HTML5/CSS3 for modern browsers, with automatic fallback to non-semantic…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great But Needs Improvement
by thall11·3 years ago·3 replies
I had to alter the plugin code slightly to allow it to work with custom sizes as well. It would also be nice if the smart crop dimensions weren’t removed upon plugin deactivation, also, if the smart cropping functionality was behind a user role privilege check.
A small but significant improvement to WP
by Morten Ellegaard Larsen·3 years ago
This function should be a core functionality! So when I found this little gem I was so happy.
Worked, but not in IE
by dragon013·6 years ago
The plugins worked quite well, but not in IE 11. There it broke the site. Sadly I got no help with that from the developer. So I stopped using it.
Another downside (but probably not solvable by a plugin): the preview of links on facebook and twitter is still the non edited one.
OUTSTANDING – this should be on everyone’s must have plugin
by Dadarocks·7 years ago
Dont you hate it when you upload a picture to the featured image and its cropped completely wrong – like the focus of the picture isnt even the frame – THIS SOLVES that problem! Great plugin!
Intuitive, great plugin!!! works perfectly
by elronb·7 years ago
Thank you for taking the time to create this awesome plugin for us.
Download Trends
Today: 44Yesterday: 55This week: 285Period total: 20K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.4.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
98.9%
Other
1.1%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.10
- Remove references to plugin website
Contributors
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