How To Crop Images in WordPress 2.9 Image Editor

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WordPress 2.9 features a built-in Image Editor which provides basic image editing features. Now it’s not rocket science to use the Image Editor in WordPress 2.9 but somehow the image cropping feature didn’t work out for me initially. What happened was I didn’t know to use it properly. Apart from the other functions such as flipping images, scaling etc. the image crop in the editor works differently. Once you go through this tiny article you’ll discover how silly you and I have been not being able to use image cropping in the WordPress 2.9 editor.

Here’s how it’s done;

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There you go, you weren’t supposed to click save and rather click on the crop tool again to crop the image. This is different from the way you work with other tools in the image editor in WordPress 2.9.

How lame?! :P

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Tags: , features, how-to, image cropping, image editor, troubleshoot, wordpress 2.9


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my crop button is grayed out no matter what i do. the media uploader system needs a huge overhaul
  • seems to be a Firefox plugin conflict (sigh.... i have too many but i love them all). i still stand by the statement that the media uploader needs an overhaul. it is NOT intuitive enough for people who aren't wordpress geeks.
  • Hey thanks a bunch. Not a very intuitive UI move by WP. My client could not figure this out. I will send them a link to your blog.
  • Shawn
    Thanks bro!
  • Tim
    And, it's still the same in 3.0. Duh... :(
  • Oasis74
    Hahaha..that was cool..i was stuck! Thanks for your awesome work!
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