cropping to show top of an image instead of middle

Is there any way to have the automatic cropping of images default to the top of the photo rather than the middle? I have all sorts of photos created in the past that are showing the chest of people rather than their faces. Looks terrible 🙁

Thanks.

Yes. Sort of. Technically there is a hack for the WordPress core code for the thumbnail generator — not part of the theme.

However great news for all! The hack widely used (done back in 2011!!!!!), is being rolled into WordPress 3.9 ( $crop parameter in the add_image_size function ).

So, wait just a little bit for WP 3.9 which will solve a wide variety of the “duh” things folks have been asking for since WP 3 launched.

I’m sure once 3.9 is live, Radu/co will put the option in there someplace, since crop from top vs middle-out is more useful for most.

There is a plugin I recommended to somebody else this past week here on the forum, which allows you to specify crop position on upload of image, in a 9 box grid (should be built in to WP, but isn’t).

E.g., in WP 3.9
the functions can be set as so with a crop direction

add_image_size( 'screenshot', 300, 300, array( 'left', 'top' ) );

WP 3.9 also adds HTML5 image galleries (won’t need to use JetPack!); and also audio/video PLAYLISTS!!

Page template filters will really help those who need more “different blah on page blah” stuff.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.