You can control the auto-cropping of thumbnails, you control the way how WordPress generates thumbnails in your website.

You must have noticed that when WordPress auto-generates thumbnails, it never crops them in the way which is more suitable for showing the thumbnail.

For instance, suppose you have a full portrait image of a person that you’ve uploaded, but you want the image to appear landscape or may be you have a landscape image, with a person’s face on the right hand side, but you need it to display in a square thumbnail.  Continue reading Enable Face Detection For Better Cropping Of Thumbnails In WordPress →

Pixabay.com is a free community service designed for globally sharing and using public domain images. The service can be used by anyone who needs high quality photos to use in blog, website, articles etc.  Continue reading Integrating Pixabay Free Image Library In WordPress →

Earlier we have discussed about editing photos with native WordPress functionality. We have tested a lot of new plugins and in this article we are listing some of the best ones you can use to retouch your website images.  Continue reading Best WordPress Plugins To Edit And Retouch Images In WordPress →

When an image is uploaded to WordPress, its quality is automatically decreased by 10% and when it is resized, again it leaves some effect on image quality.  Continue reading Automatically Sharpen Resized Images In WordPress To Maintain Image Quality →

Now you can automatically set all first images of published post, pages and other custom post types as featured.

Continue reading Easily Set All First Images As Featured In WordPress →

Problem comes when you are not sure about the spammy nature of websites you are linking to. Suppose you are using any image which has been labelled for reuse and you link the image source to the website you’re not entirely sure you trust. In such type of cases it’s always good to make sure the credit link is nofollow.

Continue reading How To Credit Images With Nofollow Links In WordPress? →

With an spectacular interface, Matrix 3D enables WordPress users to create  image & video galleries and then display them via shortcode. The plugin automatically generates galleries in a click and then you can edit them, change the gallery images and publish them on your website. It is a very different gallery plugin built using ActionScript 3.0 and 3d technologies. See it live working here.

Continue reading How To Use 3D Carousel Photo & Video Galleries In WordPress? →

Default functionality of WordPress uploads all images with their real sizes and then generates new custom sizes like a thumbnail size image, medium size image, large size image and keeps a copy of original image with its real size. Suppose your website’s maximum width is 1200px and you have a 300 px sidebar then all content space you have is 900px, now what is need of keeping images larger than 900px when you don’t have space to show them. It increases unnecessary weight on your server and also posts with large images makes your webpages slow and heavy.

Continue reading How To Auto Scale Images On Upload In WordPress? →

By default WordPress uses some default settings like image alignment, image size and link etc whenever any image is uploaded from ‘Add Media’ button. Although, it allows users to use custom settings each time when an image is inserted inside a post or post type in WordPress but it doesn’t allows admins to change the default image settings. In this tutorial we will be showing you how you can change the default image settings sitewide in WordPress.

Continue reading How To Use Custom Image Settings Sitewide In WordPress? →