Hi. Nowadays, every new website builder considers the Focal Point of the Featured Image when calculating the visible part of the image on the front end, whether it is displayed as an image or as a background container.
When you use a Featured Image, you can set the Focal Point. This tells you which part of the image is the most important.
With modern Page Builders, every cropping, whether it’s from an image module or when the image is used as a background for a module, takes this focal point into account to calculate the cropping points.
This way, you always have the most important part of the picture visible.
This is especially indispensable when using portraits, as you can still see the face even when it’s used in a landscape format.
Here an example without focal point set
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Now I set the focal point on the face.
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and you can see here the result
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As mentioned, this works for nearly all modern page builders, except for Toolset modules.
OK, I see from your example what you mean, though I don't know how you are doing it (it's not a WordPress feature, presumably you are using some plugin for this).
You are right that it isn't something available in Toolset (I guess you want it for when using the Image block to specify how images should be output, as you already have something to set a focal point), and as we are not adding new features to Toolset at the moment it isn't something we can offer, I'm afraid.
I'm not sure if the likes of Stackable or Kadence blocks have such a feature, as they work with Toolset dynamic sources.
This feature is quite common in modern page builders (such as Brizy, which I use).
Since Toolset can also be considered a page builder, I believe it would be a great, if not necessary, addition to handle the extensive use of images in various device formats.
And also an ergonomic way to save server space, instead of creating thousands of different formats to accommodate different image sizes. Many times, we are creating new image sizes only because Toolset shows the wrong part of an image, not because it is necessary.
Let’s hope it will be taken into consideration for the next major update, which, by the way, is long overdue 😉
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