Title: Thumbnail Cropping Problems
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Thumbnail Cropping Problems

 *  Resolved [jsbullock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsbullock/)
 * (@jsbullock)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-cropping-problems/)
 * I’m fairly new to WP and having trouble controlling how my media thumbnails get
   displayed. It is especially critical for my product catalog displays in Woo Commerce.
   I would rather not be constricted to having to edit every product image I have
   since many of those images come from third parties because I drop ship other 
   company’s products and have take what they provide for me. Also there are many
   images so editing each is a lot of work. I want, and aught to be able to have
   the largest dimension of an image fill the boundaries of the thumbnail, but instead
   the images are getting arbitrarily cropped. The portrait images are getting chopped
   up very badly. I have tried tweaking display settings, but nothing seems to change.
   Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
 * Cheers,
    – Jeff

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 *  Thread Starter [jsbullock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsbullock/)
 * (@jsbullock)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-cropping-problems/#post-6300960)
 * I thought I should add a few other details. I’m using WooCommerce and the Vantage
   theme.
 * The settings I’ve tweaked:
 * WooCommerce/Settings/Products/Display/Product Images
    Hard Crop? unchecked for
   Catalog Images, Single Product Image & Product Thumbnails
 * Settings/Media
    Thumbnail Size/Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions – unchecked
 * I also used the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin with no changes observed.
 * I tried uploading a new non-square image and it still crops the widest dimension
   for the media library thumbnail.
 * Also what I really want is no forcing of my images into a square for thumbnails.
 *  Thread Starter [jsbullock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsbullock/)
 * (@jsbullock)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-cropping-problems/#post-6300998)
 * OK I let the grid display of thumbnails in the media library fool me. I just 
   looked at my product catalog pages and my thumbnails are now perfect. I’ll leave
   this post intact because the steps I did take may help another WP tenderfoot 
   like myself.
 * Cheers – Jeff

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## Tags

 * [display settings](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/display-settings/)
 * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/)
 * [thumbnails](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/thumbnails/)

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 * Last reply from: [jsbullock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsbullock/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-cropping-problems/#post-6300998)
 * Status: resolved

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