{"id":851,"date":"2012-09-30T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/?p=851"},"modified":"2012-09-30T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T17:17:00","slug":"post-thumbnail-editor-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2012\/09\/post-thumbnail-editor-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Thumbnail Editor – WordPress Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordPress has a good built in image editor as well as gallery manager for posting multiple images in a post.<\/p>\n

However, sometimes the thumbnails it builds by default are not optimal, especially if the focus of a photograph or image is off center. And while WordPress supports cropping and applying to the thumbnail only, it is not obvious (at least to me) and creates mixed results.<\/p>\n

One way I have addressed this was to create a second cropped version of an image for the purpose of using in thumbnail or feature displays, uploading it, and then selecting this second image as the feature for a post. That works, but it creates some overhead and sometimes even this leads to unexpected results, especially depending on how your theme manages thumbnails.<\/p>\n

I found a great plugin for managing thumbnails in these situations – Post Thumbnail Editor<\/a> by sewpafly<\/a>. In the example below, the leading lady in the pineapple parade was getting cropped. Using Post Thumbnail Editor, I am choosing to update just two of the thumbnails: the 50 x 50 and the 200 x 200, because of their square shape, with the crop you see on the left. The only thing that was not intuitive to me is that I simply drag my pointer to create the crop. I’m used to choosing a cropping tool first in most software, but even Word Press’s own thumbnail editor works this way.<\/p>\n

Click to zoom:<\/p>\n

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Replacing two bad crops on right with new crop on left.<\/p><\/div>\n

You access Post Thumbnail Editor in one of two ways:<\/p>\n

1. The Media Library summary view has a new float-menu choice, “Thumbnails.”<\/p>\n

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2. Or when editing the details of an image, there is a new choice in the Thumbnail Settings interface:<\/p>\n

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