About this plugin
Focalio serves cropped, format-converted image variants on demand via signed URLs — no more pre-generated intermediate sizes filling up your uploads directory. Editors pick a focal point per image so crops always keep the subject in frame.
Try it without installing: click Live Preview for a demo page with three photos at three crops. Move a focal point and reload the page: every crop follows.
Features:
- On-demand image cropping via signed URLs
- WebP or AVIF output for all uploads
- Focal-point picker in the media library and the block editor
- Non-destructive rotate and flip, applied to every rendition
- LQIP (Low Quality Image Placeholder) support
- Settings for image quality, output format and maximum width
- Presets, as many as you need: edited on the Presets tab, each with its own quality and LQIP, or registered in code with glide_register_preset()
- Attention / entropy / center crop fallback for images without a manual focal point
- Cached images are served before the rest of WordPress loads
- Presets also appear as image sizes, so the media library, Advanced Custom Fields, widgets and page builders can pick them by name
- Optional: skip writing intermediate image sizes to disk on upload
- Turn off the WordPress image sizes your site does not use
- A Cache tab: how big the image cache is, and a button to clear it. A weekly cleanup drops renders that are no longer used
- WP-CLI commands for the cache and the crop fallback
- WooCommerce product images go through Focalio too, and its cropped sizes follow the focal point
- Multisite: activate it for the whole network; deleting it cleans up every site
Focalio Pro is a separate add-on for agencies and editorial teams, not included in this plugin. It adds:
- Control: focal-point zoom, a straighten ruler that levels a tilted photo by up to 45°, a live crop preview, a hand-made crop per ratio where the focal point is not enough, a watermark, and a version history per image to go back to an earlier focal point or crop, like undo and redo
- Performance: AVIF with a WebP fallback in a picture element, and a cache warm-up that renders images before the first visitor asks for them
- Workflow: face detection that puts the focal point on the people in a photo, bulk actions in the media library, import and export of the settings to set up one site and give others the same, and tools to manage every site of a multisite network
- WooCommerce: the shop grid of a block theme cut on the focal point at the store’s ratio, and one ratio for every photo on a product page
External services
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What is sent, and when:
- When you opt in (on the screen shown after activation): your WordPress user’s first and last name and email address; the site’s homepage URL and title, WordPress and PHP versions and site language; the Focalio and SDK versions, and whether Focalio is active. The list of plugins and themes (names, slugs, versions, active or not) only when you leave that option on.
- After opting in: changes to that information, and when Focalio is activated, deactivated or uninstalled. If you fill in the optional form on deactivation, the reason you give.
- You can opt out at any time with the “Opt Out” link under Focalio on the Plugins screen. Focalio works the same either way.
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