Description
This plugin is a WordPress core feature-plugin that adds cropping to background images for parity with header images. For this particular feature the implementation is quite simple, but it’s starting out as a plugin to gauge user interest in this feature and whether the feature improves the user experience of background images.
This plugin requires WordPress 4.3 Beta 3 or later.
If you’re interested in contributing to this project, ping @celloexpressions on WordPress core Slack. Please comment on the trac ticket with ideas and feedback: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32403.
Screenshots
New cropping step when adding a background image.
Installation
- Take the easy route and install through the WordPress plugin installer OR
- Download the .zip file and upload the unzipped folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Visit the Customizer (Appearance -> Customize) to change your background image and be able to crop it after selecting it.
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
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- Take the easy route and install through the WordPress plugin installer OR
- Download the .zip file and upload the unzipped folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Visit the Customizer (Appearance -> Customize) to change your background image and be able to crop it after selecting it.
Reviews
Auto install
Why my website auto install this plugin?
It happened on my 2 websites. And not just once.
Hope to see more option with editor
Easy too use and i hope to see this plugin have an editor image while cropping images.
Thanks
Very good!
This plugin helps users a lot!
Congratulations to the developer for the idea and execution of this idea! Success! 🙂
MUCH NEEDED! Thank you!
Thank you for working on this plugin and considering it for core in WP 4.7+. I’ve been hoping for a solution to allow me to crop a specific section of very large images to use as a background on pages or sections – and as long as this one doesn’t remove or overwrite the original image file, it will make it easy to use multiple cropped sections from the same source image throughout different sections of my site.
I’m very grateful and hopeful for this plugin!
Contributors & Developers
“Background Image Cropper” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Interested in development?
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Changelog
1.2
- Add plugin textdomain for translations.
- Clarify image context handling.
1.1
- Fix initial display in WordPress 4.6 and later.
- Fix in-control preview of selected image in WordPress 4.6 and later.
- Ensure that the background-image context is set for selected images, so that they’re marked as background images in the media library.
- Refine handling in conjunction with the improved background image properties UI in WordPress 4.7.
1.0
- Fix setting handling.
0.9
- Initial commit.
- Full functionality pending the completion of https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/29211
