editing thumbnail only

  • Resolved themantimeforgot

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    9 years, 9 months ago

    I am having issues editing a picture for thumbnail only.

    I am doing the following:
    1. Go into media manager, find my picture, click it
    2. Click edit image
    3. Select Thumbnail under “Apply changes to”
    4. Select the area you want on your picture, select the crop button, then click save.

    The thumbnail image will show you your cropped image but will not display the correct image in a post listing. Eventually going back to media manager it will show an unedited image. Editing ALL the images displays correctly but assigning it to a certain size does not seem to.

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  • Same issue here. It is described in more detail already in this 2 years old thread – obviously this issue is still unsolved… ??

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/mediathumbnail-croppost-thumbnail-problem

    Instead of exchanging the (150×150) thumbnail, the crop is creating new versions of it, with filenames looking like e.g. this:

    117-e1423760859306-150×150.jpg

    where the part beginning with “e…” is changing, based on what logic ever.

    A halfway workaround is to manually delete the original thumbnail via ftp, and rename the newly created one (i.e. remove the “e1423760859306”).

    Halfway, because then the thumbnail is shown correctly in the frontend, but is broken in the backend – I assume that in the database behind the information of the new filename is stored, and would also have to be updated.

    Painful…

    Thread Starter themantimeforgot

    (@themantimeforgot)

    I agree, I’m awfully surprised this is not affecting more users. Its seems like it would be such a good feature to be able to manipulate the thumbnail in such a way so it fits with how you display your listings. I’m trying to sell our communications department on how to utilize WordPress to its full potential but its kind of hard with bugs like this. I’m really hoping someone from core sees this and gets it fixed. I find it really difficult for anyone to notice and reply to these threads.

    Maybe one of these plugins?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/post-thumbnail-editor/

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/crop-thumbnails/

    Thread Starter themantimeforgot

    (@themantimeforgot)

    WPyogi, Thanks for pointing those out. Having plugins to fix what looks like a bug (IMO, correct me if I am wrong) is not really the preferred approach (Especially if they create functionality that doesn’t port over when this is fixed) but if it gets it working then I’ll just have to make due.

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