Cropping Thumbnails

  • So, the new Media Uploader… New to me, running 3.3.1.

    The thumbnails it automatically creates are rarely perfect for what I do, so I thought the new “Edit Image” was going to be perfect for me.

    I hit Edit Image, and see the Aspect Ratio setting.. I set it to 1:1 and drag the crop tool over the images… First of all, it doesn’t stick to the ratio so I have to drag it so the numbers match, or type in the numbers. Then I see that it looks like I can make this change ONLY to the thumbnail.. Perfect! I click that button.

    Then I hit “Save” and nothing happens. At least as far as I can tell. It seems as if the Save button doesn’t work. The cancel button does though. I’ve tried a couple different browsers, Firefox, Safari, on the Mac and can’t get it to work.

    Am I even doing this right, or am I trying to do something that can’t be done?

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  • Thread Starter Brooks

    (@brooks)

    You can see my issue in this screen shot.

    https://ayola.com/aweb/WP-crop.jpg

    Thread Starter Brooks

    (@brooks)

    Anyone? I’m assuming this is not a common problem since no one has responded.

    Anonymous User 5746546

    (@anonymized-5746546)

    You need to click the crop button (the first image button under “update media”) to crop then click ok to save the crop.

    Thread Starter Brooks

    (@brooks)

    Gah! Well, there it is. That’s not very intuitive to me, but what do I know. I just use image editing software all day. ??

    Here’s the other issue that arises. It generates a whole new thumbnail image file, so I have to go back and edit my post to display the new file name… which is long as hell.

    I guess you can’t have everything.

    THANKS for your help. L D.

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