How to Crop & Rotate Images in WordPress Without Any Plugin

The ready-made content management system (CMS) helps in creating a website even without having a great coding knowledge and WordPress is one of the easiest and widely popular CMS in the world.

WordPress already contains lots of interesting and useful features for its users to help them maintain a great website and without any headache also allow them install plugins to do more with their website. In this article, I’m going to tell you one of such features of WordPress.

Many times it would happen with you that you uploaded an image to your WordPress server but forgot to crop or resize it in your PCs photo editor. So, still you don’t need to worry about that because you can crop, resize or rotate the image directly in your WordPress, even without needing any kind of photo editor plugin.

Yes friends, WordPress has a built-in feature that allows you to crop, resize and rotate images right before publishing it. So, here’s how to crop and rotate images in WordPress without any plugin.

Here’s How to Crop and Rotate Images in WordPress

If you want to crop and rotate any of your uploaded image directly in WordPress area, then you can do it very simply. For this, first of all you will have to go to Media > Library. Now, click on the image that you wanna crop or rotate and then in the popup window click on Edit Image button just below the image.

Edit Image in WordPress

As soon as you will click on this Edit Image button, you will see different options to edit your image such as Crop, Rotate Clockwise and Counter Clockwise, Flip Vertically and Horizontally.

If you wanna crop and resize the image, then just start cropping with the help of mouse pointer and after selecting the cropping area, click on the Crop icon to crop the picture.

Crop Image in WordPress

After cropping the image, click on Save to save the cropped image. And similarly you can rotate the image in any direction by clicking on the buttons shown in above picture beside the Crop icon and then save the changes when you’re done.That”s all about cropping and rotating images directly in WordPress without the need of any external WordPress plugin. I hope all the new WordPress users will find this guide useful.