Changing image sizes in WooCommerce

If your products fit nicely into perfectly square images and they look good as they are in your theme, then you can probably skip this recipe. For some themes or some types of products, though, it's really beneficial to change how WooCommerce crops your images. If you're selling ties, for example, it's probably worth telling WooCommerce to crop them so they're long and skinny.

Getting ready

It's best if you have already created a couple of products and look at them to compare how the Featured Image and the Product Gallery look on their product pages. If you see gaps around the images, you may be able to increase the product image size and take advantage of that space.

How to do it…

Changing image sizes can be done in two parts. The first part will change the settings, and this will affect all future uploads. The second part will install a plugin that will force your website to recrop every image, which will affect all past uploads. Let's have a look at the...