Doesn’t do anything

Side note to @li-an and off topic. If you want to help here, please do. If you post a link to an off site location for your “test” then that will get archived and the user will not see it.

Please keep the assistance on these forums.

OK, I made a test and the plugin worked (the link showed a successful created thumbnail and the difference with automatic WP created thumbnail).
Verify you have Imagick available on your hosting. I confirm that EWWW is incompatible with SmartCrop. EWWW page option will tell you if Imagick is activated on your hosting.

I made a mistake with my previous answer. there is no need for Imagick library for this plugin. Maybe you can have a test with all other plugins desactivated and one default theme.

@li-an: I just tried on a very simple site, no change, even with EWWW disabled. I’ll try it on a minimal install in MAMP, but I’m not very hopeful at this point.

So strange as it works nicely for me. But as it is not compatible wath EWWW, it’s a real problem.

Oops, I should have subscribed to threads about this plugin!

The plugin doesn’t touch images when they’re first uploaded or even regenerated, although I should change the latter.

Anyway, instead it schedules a WordPress cron job to come back later and create smartly cropped thumbnails since it can take a while and I didn’t want to slow down initial uploads.

Thanks Alex, I didn’t look for a cron job. I agree that during regeneration (and maybe even upload, is processing time such a huge issue?) the smart crop should happen synchronously. Probably two separate options would be best?

I’d also go for slower uploads (how slow does it get?) since the user / client expects a visual result… Alternatively you could add a notice explaining the process?

Great plugin concept by the way! Thanks for your efforts.