In the daily operation of websites, images, especially thumbnails, play a crucial role.They can not only enhance the visual appeal of the page, but also play a crucial role in search engine optimization (SEO) and user experience.An efficient content management system should provide convenient and practical functions for image processing.So, for AnQiCMS, does it provide a tool for users to manually select the thumbnail cropping area?Next, let's delve deeper into the strategy of Anqi CMS in thumbnail processing.

How does AnQi CMS handle thumbnails: Automation and efficiency first

When we publish articles or products, image management is often an indispensable link.In the Aanqi CMS, uploading an image as an article thumbnail is very intuitive. You can directly select from the gallery or upload a new image.To further simplify our work, if the content already contains images, the system will also intelligently extract the first image in the article content as a thumbnail, saving us the trouble of manual settings.

This automated processing undoubtedly greatly enhances the efficiency of content publishing.However, for the final display effect of thumbnails, AnQi CMS provides deeper global control options, all of which are concentrated in the background's [Content Settings] module, and will take effect on the thumbnails of the entire website.This means that once set, all newly uploaded or automatically generated thumbnails will follow these rules, thus ensuring the overall visual consistency of the website and reducing the time we spend on repetitive operations for each image.

Deep understanding of thumbnail processing methods: Three strategies to meet different needs

In the [Content Settings], we can find the key setting item 'Thumbnail Processing Method'. Safe CMS provides three different processing strategies to meet the diverse needs of website image display.At the same time, we can also customize the "thumbnail size", set the width and height, and let the system automatically generate thumbnails according to these dimensions.

  1. Scale proportionally by the longest side

  2. Scale proportionally by the longest side with padding

  3. [en] : Crop to the shortest edge.： This is the closest option to the word 'trimming', which aims to highlight the main content as much as possible while ensuring consistent dimensions for the thumbnail. The system finds the shortest edge of the image and cuts it based on this, which is usuallyCenter cropEnglish translation: ，to adapt to the thumbnail size you set.This method generates thumbnails with uniform size and strong visual impact, especially suitable for scenes that require a fixed aspect ratio (such as product list images).But it is worth emphasizing that the 'trimming' here is not the kind of tool that can be manually dragged to select an area, as we commonly understand.The cropping of AnQi CMS is based on algorithmic automatic processing, which will intelligently crop from the central area of the image according to the thumbnail size you set and the proportion of the original image to ensure that the thumbnail ultimately conforms to the preset size and proportion.Therefore, it is best to ensure that the main content of the image is located in the center of the image when using this pattern, to avoid important information being accidentally cropped.

After setting these processing methods and dimensions, if we modify the settings later, Safe CMS also provides the feature of 'batch regenerate thumbnails' with one click.