Best crop plugins for WordPress
The most popular crop plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Image Aspect Ratio Crop Field for Advanced Custom Fields leads with 20K+ active installs, ahead of Image Regenerate & Select Crop (7K+) and Manual Image Crop (7K+). All 25 plugins tagged “crop” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 crop plugins
- 1.
Image Aspect Ratio Crop Field for Advanced Custom FieldsThe most installed crop plugin, with 20K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 26 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 2.
Image Regenerate & Select Crop7K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 58 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
Manual Image Crop7K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 56 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
WP SmartCrop4K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 9 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 5.Thumbnail Crop Position
2K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 16 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 6.WPThumb
800+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 7.
Thumbnail Editor500+ active installs. Rated 3.0 from 5 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 8.
WP Crop Stop200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
- 9.Presswell Art Direction
80+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 4 days ago.
- 10.
Crop and Resize Images70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
All 25 plugins tagged “crop”

Image Aspect Ratio Crop Field for Advanced Custom Fields
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,225by joppuyo23 days ago
ACF field that allows user to crop image to a specific aspect ratio or pixel size
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.8(26)
- Downloads
- 466/day

Image Regenerate & Select Crop
Down in the last 7 days:7#2,480by Iulia Cazan1 month ago
Advanced management for images, register new sub-sizes, sub-sizes details, regenerate and cleanup files.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.7(58)
- Downloads
- 60/day

Manual Image Crop
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,487by Tomasz Sita2 months ago
Plugin allows you to manually crop all the image sizes registered in your WordPress theme (in particular featured image).
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.1(56)
- Downloads
- 63/day

WP SmartCrop
#3,267by Bytes.co2 years ago
WP SmartCrop will crop your images on-the-fly to match your CSS, keeping the main focal point in view.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 3.7(9)
- Downloads
- 112/day
Thumbnail Crop Position
Down in the last 7 days:5#4,827by PoseLab9 years ago
Select the crop position of your thumbnails.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.8(16)
- Downloads
- 12/day
WPThumb
Up in the last 7 days:5#7,542by Joe Hoyle12 years ago
An on-demand image generation replacement for WordPress' image resizing.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Thumbnail Editor
Down in the last 7 days:48#8,563by aviplugins.com3 months ago
Manually Crop and Resize thumbnail images that are uploaded in the Media section.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 3.0(5)
- Downloads
- 13/day

WP Crop Stop
Down in the last 7 days:73#11,870by EviLex7 years ago
Just stop cropping images.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Presswell Art Direction
Down in the last 7 days:104#17,507by Presswell4 days ago
Manage focal-point cropping and on-demand custom image generation in WordPress.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Crop and Resize Images
Down in the last 7 days:225#18,786by bo.lipai11 years ago
Crop and Resize Images Plugin allows you to easily modify WordPress uploaded images.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Theme Blvd Image Sizes
Down in the last 7 days:85#18,833by Jason11 years ago
When using a theme with Theme Blvd Framework version 2.2+, this plugin allows you to change your theme's image sizes.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SmartCrop
Down in the last 7 days:44#23,687by Alex Mills8 years ago
Instead of cropping to the center of an image, SmartCrop attempts to use the most interesting part of the image for the thumbnail.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day

Advanced Pixel Editor
#30,263by Rafael Minuesa1 month ago
Edit images with an AI prompt, or crop, resize, rotate, flip, contrast and sharpen them inside the Media Library. Powered by ImageMagick.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Plugin Name
#33,223by oQeySites12 years ago
oQey Add-ons is a plugin that add more features for oQey Gallery users.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Farm-Calculators
Down in the last 7 days:2,601#34,837by Bryce Johnston10 years ago
Add farm calculators to your website to help visitors determine various farming and crop related information.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Responsive cropped Yummy images, pictures and thumbnails
Up in the last 7 days:7,876#39,180by yaroinfo7 years ago
Manual cropping of images for different sizes
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Painterro
Down in the last 7 days:5,303#43,590by Ivan Borshchov1 year ago
Paste screenshots and edit images directly in your wordpress admin area. Use Painterro button in visual editor for images editing.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
wp-imageresize
Down in the last 7 days:141#45,756by Francesco Bianco13 years ago
Manipulate images direct on template file
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

AllTerrain Photo Editor
Up in the last 7 days:665#46,139by Daniel López Sánchez13 days ago
A small painting studio inside WordPress. Brushes, layers and filters, straight in the Media Library.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Picture grabber, resizer and cropper
#46,922by zlabs3 years ago
Picgrab is a plugin that download, resize and crop an image on the fly. It also stores resized and cropped images in local cache.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Better Images Crop
Up in the last 7 days:24#46,974by wididwi12 years ago
Better Images Crop made croping results same as width and height in media settings
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Image Display Control
#67,572by Aurelien Lourot3 years ago
An easy way to leverage image region metadata on your site. Made by Frameright. Power to the pictures!
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Yinga Focus
#69,858by yinga5 days ago
Set the subject of an image once — every placement keeps it in view, on every screen size. Zero bytes of CSS or JavaScript for your visitors.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day

Pixlio
Down in the last 7 days:17,542#73,844by ikedajapan19 days ago
Edit images directly in WordPress with layers, text, crop, resize, adjustments and PNG/JPEG export.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Incod Image Dimension Manager
Down in the last 7 days:11,568#74,126by Marco De Sangro27 days ago
Resize, fit and unify every image to fixed dimensions with a letterbox canvas or crop, no limits, and full support for all Custom Post Types.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day