It has been 4 months since I posted this, so i’ll try to do a better job explaining my issue.
To have cropped images consider the user defined hotspots, you have to use default WordPress image sizes. This makes sense, since the plugin must know not only the hotspots coordinates but also the target image size.
But heres my problem though. On my sites I usually have banner images, which are displayed across the site and are pretty big assets. To have them cropped with hotspots I need to have them declared as a regular WordPress image size, which means every single image sent to the server for normal post/pages will also have those sizes created. This is kinda waist of resources, so I wonder if there was a better approach to this.
Not sure if this is even feasible, was looking for your input on this.
Thanks.
Hi,
Sorry about the lack of response prior to this.
I will take a look at this soon to see if I can change anything regarding this.
I second this feature. My theme crops images at about 500 by 300 for my blog roll. My authors have a real hard time sticking a good image in the featured image.
If I could add this functionality, it would save me a ton of fixing.
Hope to have an update on this too!
The new responsive images capability built in with WordPress makes this even more important as I see it. Ideally it would be something extending the native crop functions to have the coordinates considered when cropping.
