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Crop-Thumbnails
A lean little tool that might accidentally crop your whole library.
HealthyGrowing
77/100
Users appreciate the lightweight utility but warn about dangerous default settings and recent UI changes.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.6★
67 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+5%
Growing
162 → 170 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 6 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +5% in the last year
162/day a year ago→170/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCrop-Thumbnails is a well-regarded, lightweight image cropping utility that users find genuinely useful and easy to use, with the main caveats being a risky default setting that can cause unintended bulk crops and at least one report of serious site breakage after use.
What people like
- +Easy to use with an intuitive UI×7
- +Lightweight with no ads, upsells, or bloat×2
- +Useful ability to crop multiple images of the same ratio at once×2
- +Responsive and helpful developer/support×2
- +Reliable over long-term use×2
Common complaints
- −"Crop all images with same ratio at once" is enabled by default, which can cause unintended mass re-cropping and is considered dangerous by at least one user
- −A recent update removed the ability to click anywhere on the image to define a crop area, replacing it with a resize grid that must be adjusted from every direction, making cropping more time-consuming
- −Plugin broke post thumbnails and srcset on one site after regenerating large image sizes, preventing new images from being added to affected posts
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.67★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 2%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-11-112025-09-072026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 67 total
Latest reviews · 67 analyzed
- 2025-12-26★★★★★Simple and works perfectly for cropping thumbnailsAnthony Hortin
- 2025-08-10★★★★★Does what it says on the tin!Hilary Caws-Elwitt
- 2024-10-24★★★★★Clean, lean and so useful!jhtjards
- 2023-06-13★★★★★Really great plugincezaro
- 2023-05-30★★★★★great pluginyikai
- 2023-05-03★★★★★Incredibly Useful with One Caveathotnewfilm
- 2022-07-25★★★★★simple and very useful !panonski
- 2021-09-27★★★★★Where's the button “This plugin should be native”?Bruno Cantuaria
- 2021-05-28★★★★★Very convenientcpoakl
- 2021-03-10★★★★★Perfect plugin for the job, thanks a lot!bjoluc
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Crop-Thumbnails
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
172
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
201
Prior 7-day baseline
129
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
260
Mean release-day peak (30d)
172
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-14.4%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.38
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
87%
5★ share in analyzed sample
2%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.61 → 4.67★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered