Yinga Focus

Responsive design crops images. By default the browser crops from the center — straight through faces, products, and everything else that made the photo worth using. Yinga Focus lets you click the subject of an image once, in the media library, and from that moment every placement on your site keeps it in view. How it works

• Open any image in the media library and click the subject. A live preview shows exactly what stays visible at nine common aspect ratios, and you can compare with the default center crop before saving.
• The focal point is stored as native WordPress metadata on the attachment itself. Use the same photo in twenty places — hero, card, thumbnail — and all of them inherit it automatically.
• On the front end the plugin writes only an object-position value. That is 0 KB of CSS and 0 KB of JavaScript for your visitors, and it is safe by construction: object-position only has an effect where your theme already crops. An image that is fully visible today cannot shift.

What is covered automatically

• Featured images, galleries and everything rendered through wp_get_attachment_image() — every block theme, GeneratePress, Astra, and friends.
• Images in post content and in the image, cover and media-text blocks.
• A report in the admin bar tells you, per page, what happened to each image — and why nothing happened, when nothing did. One click shows the same page without the plugin, for an honest before/after.

Developer friendly

• Full REST API with partial updates and a resolve endpoint that returns the engine result for any aspect ratio.
• A public PHP API: yinga_focus_get(), yinga_focus_css_position(), yinga_focus_resolve() and more.
• The crop engine exists in PHP and JavaScript, tested against one shared fixture file — bit-identical results, verified on every release.

Languages The interface is in English and fully translatable. A Dutch translation ships with the plugin; other languages can be contributed through translate.wordpress.org. A paid add-on exists Everything above is the free plugin, and it solves the focal-point problem for standard WordPress rendering on its own. A separate paid add-on, Yinga Focus Pro, covers the harder cases agencies run into: a safe area, a text zone, editing on the live page, re-cutting hard-cropped files, a page scanner, and Elementor backgrounds. You never need it to use this plugin.

1. Install and activate the plugin.
2. Open an image in the media library and click "Set focal point".
3. Click the subject, check the previews, and save. That is all — the front end follows automatically.

The behaviour can be tuned under Settings → Media.

1.2.1

• The admin-bar styles are now added through wp_add_inline_style() instead of being printed in the footer.
• The output buffer the admin-bar report uses is now closed explicitly on shutdown, on its own level, instead of being left to PHP.
• Removed the Update URI header; it is meant for plugins hosted outside WordPress.org.

1.2.0

• The version constant now matches the plugin header. It is what browsers use to tell editor builds apart, so after an update you no longer get the previous version's editor from cache.
• Focal data of an image attached to a draft or private post is no longer readable without logging in. An attachment status of inherit was being treated as public, which it is not.
• The admin-bar report no longer breaks on images whose title contains a dollar sign.
• Deactivating the plugin no longer flushes the whole site's object cache. It never cleared anything of ours.
• Uninstalling no longer removes a setting that belongs to the paid add-on.
• breakpoints is now declared in the REST route schema; it was already accepted and sanitised.
• Hook names are now written out in full (yinga_focus/...) and every file guards against direct access in the standard form, so the plugin passes the WordPress.org Plugin Check without warnings on those points.

1.1.0

• The plugin is now fully translatable. Source strings are English, and a Dutch translation (nl_NL) ships with the plugin; other languages can be contributed through translate.wordpress.org.
• The editor translates itself through wp.i18n, so its buttons and hints are translatable as well — they used to be hard-coded.

1.0.0

• First public release.
• Focal editor in the media library with live previews for nine aspect ratios and a compare mode.
• Automatic application through WordPress rendering (attachment functions, post content, image/cover/media-text blocks).
• Admin-bar report with per-image verdicts and a compare view.
• REST API (partial updates, resolve) and public PHP API.
• Zero front-end payload: no CSS, no JavaScript for visitors.