WebP and AVIF conversion breaks cropped thumbnails
Cropping fails or deletes thumbnails when images are auto-converted to WebP or AVIF, and AVIF crops show a blank error.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 4 April 2025 · last reported 4 October 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners who convert uploads to WebP or AVIF with image format plugins report that cropping either creates files with the wrong name, deletes the thumbnail they just made, or shows a blank error screen.
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