Lathe

== Description ==

WordPress crops from the centre, which decapitates people in every portrait used at a wide aspect ratio. Lathe lets you set a focal point once per image; every registered size then crops around it, including sizes registered later.

Where the automatic result is still wrong, you can override a single size by hand without affecting the others.

It also warns when an image is being used at a size larger than it was uploaded, which is the actual cause of most “why does this look blurry” tickets.

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== Installation ==

• Install and activate the plugin.
• Set focal points in the media library, or accept the detected suggestion.
• Run wp lathe recrop --all to apply to existing images.

Originals are never modified. Recropping regenerates the derived sizes only.

== Frequently asked questions ==

Is subject detection automatic?

It suggests a focal point using edge density, and is right often enough to be a starting point rather than an answer.

New image sizes later?

They crop around the existing focal point with no extra work.

== Changelog ==