Image Crop Editor Not working

Question

I am having an issue in WordPress admin, where the images are not cropping in WP \"edit image\" for a site I am creating and I do not know what the cause is.

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Answer 1

If you've tried just about everything but none of the suggestions work, read on.

I was experiencing this issue on just one site in my dev environment where all other sites were working fine. It ended up being a single included file with UTF-8 BOM header. Removed it and voila!

Answer 2

You may be missing the GD library.

To check that the server has it installed, try php -me at the command line. Scan for gd module.

If it's missing, get it: sudo apt-get install php7.0-gd

Answer 3

If someone is trying to accomplish this in an AWS Linux Environment, these commands worked for me:

yum install php71-pecl-imagick.x86_64

Of course, you can search for the corresponding imagemagick package for your environment:

yum search imagemagick

later, don't forget to do a:

service httpd restart

for the changes to take effect on your WP

Answer 4

This should solve your problem:

• Remove all blank lines and whitespaces in /wp-content/themes/name/functions.php + the including files.
• Remove all blank lines and whitespaces in /wp-config.php file
• Check that php5-gd is installed.
• Permissions changed to 777 for testing /wp-content/upload/ + sub folders
• Remove closing ( ?> ) php tags in /wp-content/themes/name/functions.php + the including files.
• Turn off all plugins.
• Rename your theme and change to default theme.

Answer 5

If your WordPress installation hosted on Amazon Red hat, please, do the following:

sudo yum install php-gd

For more check here.

Answer 6

I was not able to crop images, too. The area, where the cropping should show was just blank, instead I got the error message:

Image crop area preview. Requires mouse interaction.

Now, there was also other suspicous things: the media image library showed no thumbnails. When activating developer mode in the browser, I noticed some resources of Wordpress could not load.

Solution: the access rights to /wp-content were broken, Apache was no longer able to read the files. In my case, recursively changing the access rights of wp-content folder to rwxr-x--- did solve it.