Title: Edit image functionality not working
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Edit image functionality not working

 *  [clairefritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clairefritz/)
 * (@clairefritz)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-image-functionality-not-working/)
 * Hello!
 * I am running a WordPress blog for the content team in my com
    pany and they would
   like to be able to adjust the thumbnails, because the scripts used by WordPress
   don’t always center them nicely. WP has this functionality but it is unavailable
   on our live install. Here’s what I tried:
    - disable add blocker
    - look up white spaces at the beginning of PHP files
    - check script files all are in UTF-8 without BOM
    - renew the SSL certificate
 * No improvement whatsoever.
    I get mixed content warnings because WordPress is
   trying to use gravatars with http URLs while the admin uses https. Can this be
   the reason? Our install uses the HTTPS plugin, but also W3 Total Cache with enabled
   CDN. Is anyone here aware of any problem from that type of configuration that
   would cause this?

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 *  [TrishaM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trisham/)
 * (@trisham)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-image-functionality-not-working/#post-5695932)
 * “centering” the thumbnails nicely sounds like a different issue, not one that
   would be caused by mixed content or https plugin, or even W3 Total Cache, with
   our without enabled CDN.
 * Can you explain more what you mean by not “centered” nicely? To me that sounds
   like one of two issues:
 * CSS styling – could use Tweaking
 * Media setting for Thumbnails needs tweaking – this sounds like the most likely
   culprit, since other users have had similar sounding complaints caused by not
   understanding what WP does when you upload images and how Thumbnails are created.
 * Under Settings >Media, you have a checkbox below your dimension settings for 
   the Thumbnail that gets automatically created on image upload, that checkbox 
   says “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)”
 * If that checkbox is NOT checked, then WP creates Thumbnails that are proportional
   to the original image – these will not always be square, so when your Theme calls
   for the Thumbnail to be shown, it won’t line up nicely if they are not square.
 * Please post back to explain more about your “centering” problem if this isn’t
   what’s causing it.
 *  Thread Starter [clairefritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clairefritz/)
 * (@clairefritz)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-image-functionality-not-working/#post-5695951)
 * Thanks for responding, but maybe I wasn’t clear enough: the functionality is 
   not working. It’s not CSS, it’s not that setting you mention. Whenever I try 
   to edit an image in the media gallery, I get a broken image icon in the popup
   where I should be able to edit the image.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [clairefritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clairefritz/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-image-functionality-not-working/#post-5695951)
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