Post Thumbnail editor not working with the WordPress update

Same here, the plugin v2.4.6 is currently broken on WP 4.4.2. It doesn’t show any image to crop in the interface. It worked for over a year on the same site, so something in the WP Core update messed with the plugin.

Both ‘Post Thumbnail Editor’ and ‘Manual Image Crop’ don’t receive updates anymore. It’s time to look for something new!

Try this plugin instead. It works very well and has a nice and easy interface for cropping images: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/yoimages/

There are other things it does, but you can disable it.

I have the same problem. Will there be an update? Or does somebody know a hack?

author says he/she won’t be working on it :/ https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-broken-69

bummer.

i think i actually might cry

If anyone finds a reasonable replacement, that would be fab. But I’m thinking it may not be as easy as it used to be to do this, because of changes to WP core back in 4.4:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/12/responsive-images-in-wordpress-core/

As soon as you update to WordPress 4.4, all of your content and featured images will have srcset and sizes attributes, which are filtered to ensure that every available image size is present while maintaining the dimension of the original requested image. It’s important to note that custom crops will be left out of the srcset attribute if the aspect ratio differs from the original requested image. Additionally, calling an image via the wp-get-attachment-image function will return a responsive image as well.

(Emphasis theirs.)

*le sigh*

I was able to fix this with one line of code!

In \post-thumbnail-editor\js\snippets\pte_enable_media.ja on line 19, change this:

"\n</a>", {id:"{{ data.id }}"});

To this:
"\n</a>")({id:"{{ data.id }}"});

The difference is subtle, but it has to do with the way Underscore.js changed the way templates are compiled. WordPress included a new version of Underscore in the latest release.

I merged the pull request, if someone wants to verify the fix, I’ll push out an update via wordpress.

The fix didn’t work for me.

I inserted the fix manually. Opening post-thumbnail-editor only shows a blank frame with a “0”

Can you try downloading the file from the official Github repository and testing again?

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sewpafly/post-thumbnail-editor/master/js/snippets/pte_enable_media.js

I tested on multiple sites, and it’s working for me.

Swapping the js file did not work for me either.

Thanks for your fast reply.

Your fix didn’t work due to the visual composer plugin I am using. Updating visual composer to the latest version resolved the issue.

Glad it worked for you jsnd.

Kokomo, you may need to clear your cache too. Or it could be another plugin conflict.

Nate,

yeah i had cleared my cache and it wasn’t working but for some reason after a few minutes it started working again. Thanks for the fix!

+1 on Nate’s fix. Thanks!