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…nobody? I cant imagine no one else ever had this problem?

Alrighty, that wasn’t all to hard. I found this; a good explanation for what I found; https://shailan.com/how-to-change-post-thumbnail-crop-position-in-wordpress/

As it sais, this function isn’t pluggable.. but it’s a minor edit, of which there is no real problem if the edit gets reverted on an update, plus it’s easy to notice and change back after an update! ??

Yes! There it is, now to figure out how it works (ahhh, math..!) (line 341)

if ( $crop ) {
		// crop the largest possible portion of the original image that we can size to $dest_w x $dest_h
		$aspect_ratio = $orig_w / $orig_h;
		$new_w = min($dest_w, $orig_w);
		$new_h = min($dest_h, $orig_h);

		if ( !$new_w ) {
			$new_w = intval($new_h * $aspect_ratio);
		}

		if ( !$new_h ) {
			$new_h = intval($new_w / $aspect_ratio);
		}

		$size_ratio = max($new_w / $orig_w, $new_h / $orig_h);

		$crop_w = round($new_w / $size_ratio);
		$crop_h = round($new_h / $size_ratio);

		$s_x = floor( ($orig_w - $crop_w) / 2 );
		$s_y = floor( ($orig_h - $crop_h) / 2 );

I understand the consequences of doing such thing, I am a experienced webmaster for quite some years now.
But AFAIK there is no function for it, nor plugin. And I DO know it’s easier to program to use the top left as starting point while cropping, so somewhere in the WordPress code there’s a line that defines to use something else then the topleft corner.
I want to know where that is, so that I might write my own function for it – maybe a plugin.

Hm, I don’t mind modifying some core files if that’ll do the trick..?

No one? :/

Found it!
The error (well, in my case) was caused by the loading image in the acp.js file (line 23).
The error is given at the ‘+acp_path+’ part, which seems to be undefined. If you remove this, define the path or just enter an absolute path, everything works again! ??

It seems to be a conflict with jQuery.. I cant collapse/expand or do anything in the backend which requires javascript..
I saw there was a noConflict() line in the script, but that doesnt seem to help.
Anyone got around to fix this? I’ll get on it eitherway and let you know if it works.

I found out that any and all solutions on the WHOLE internets didn’t work for me. Using the statement from MichealH only works for 1 page (when the counter hits /page/3 I still got a 404).

I found out that none of the solutions work (anymore) – I guess it’s a WP 2.8 thing. Whatever did worked (and still works!) is this plugin;
https://moshublog.com/2007/10/30/custom-query-string-reloaded-for-wordpress-23-with-tag-support/

Though it is written for 2.3, it still works with 2.8 and it works for me to achieve the simplest of things; display one post on the frontpage, more on any other.

Hm, strange. I didn’t do any work on the site this weekend, and now, for some reason, this technique still causes the navigation ( next_posts_link etc) to break and come up with a 404…
Anyone?

Wow, that actually just did it – right out of the box.
Thanks mate! ?? I kinda already gave up hope for this to ever work. Let’s hope this topic gets in the top hits on Google, because I know there are allot of people with the same problem!

Thanks mate! This works just perfectly fine! ??

Yeah I know, but I do allot of minor changes (mostly for sidebar content etc) on a daily basis, and I was hoping there was somekind of advanced editor for the Theme Editor, seeing there also is one for writing posts.