Image cropping and positioning
Responsive Focal Point
Lets an editor pick the part of an image that must never be cropped out, and set a different point per breakpoint when one is not enough.
Free on WordPress.org, and finished. The paid tier is still being built.
The problem
Every theme crops images to fit, and the crop is always from the centre. On a wide hero that is usually fine. On a portrait crop for mobile it takes the middle of the photograph and throws away the person the photograph was of. Editors work around it by uploading the same image three times, cropped by hand.
How this handles it
An editor clicks the point that matters, once, in the Media Library, and sees live previews of how it will crop at five aspect ratios. The value is written as object-position and resolved in the CSS cascade, so there is no JavaScript, nothing shifts after load, and it costs nothing on a page that has no focal points set. Where one point is not enough, a breakpoint can carry its own.
Every screen, as it actually looks
Screenshots from a running install, not mockups. These are the same images on the WordPress.org listing.
Free against Pro
Free, on WordPress.org
- One focal point per image, honoured at every size
- Two custom breakpoints on top of the default
- Live crop previews while choosing the point
- Resolved in the CSS cascade, with no JavaScript
- Applies to post content images and featured images
Pro, in development
- Unlimited breakpoints
- A library wide audit of what has no focal point yet
- Cover block and ACF image field support
Not on sale yet. This tier is still being built, so there is nothing to buy and this page will not ask you to. The free version beside it is finished, supported and does everything listed.
The other two plugins
Each one solves a different problem, and none of them needs the others.
Install the free version
It is on WordPress.org and it is finished software, not a preview of the paid tier.