Image thumbnail doesn't refresh after editing

[beerpulse]

In the new media manager in 3.5, after editing an image's thumbnail, one would expect the 'refresh' button to re-load the thumbnail with the applied edits but the same un-edited image thumbnail reloads leaving it unknown whether the edits were applied. Not until you exit Media Manager & go to re-edit the same photo, do you see that your original changes were applied.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Click 'Add New Media' in Post Editor

2) Click any image in Media Manager

3) Click 'Edit Image'

[new tab opens with image editor]

4) Select a portion of the image to crop.

5) Select the 'Thumbnail' button under 'Apply changes to'

6) Click the crop button

7) Click save underneath the newly-cropped image.

8) Click update.

9) Click back to media manager tab

10) Click 'refresh' underneath image thumbnail.

[Newly-cropped thumbnail does not appear]

11) Click off of the media manager to exit.

12) Click 'Add New Media' again

13) Click same image

14) Click 'Edit image'

[image editor tab loads showing updated thumbnail with previous changes]

Those changes should appear at step 10.

This may be of normal severity but I've marked as major because it adds additional steps to updating a thumbnail than what was required in 3.4. I do a ton of thumbnail-editing so I'm admittedly biased.

[AdamCapriola]

I'd like to add to this that I also lose my Medium and Large image sizes after performing the Thumbnail crop (in addition to the bug described above). All that becomes selectable for inserting into a post are the Full Size and new Thumbnail.

Prior to 3.5 the other sizes would remain and only the Thumbnail was changed.

[markoheijnen]

The image in the editor isn't the thumbnail size but the original size but scaled down. So the main issue of this ticket is invalid.

Also I can't reproduce the issue of Adam. I changed the image and what I see is that there is a new thumbnail image and the old one also still exists. I checked this on my drive. If you still have this issue you should create a new ticket with a full description with hosting or server configuration added.

[beerpulse]

I'm so used to cropping to the middle of the image that I didn't initially realize that the gallery of images from which to choose shows Wordpress' cropped thumbnail. Those thumbs makes for a prettier experience though from a user experience standpoint, it is more important for a publisher to see on the backend what the user is going to see on the frontend. And the current thumbnail function in Wordpress is going to show my hard-crop and not Wordpress' magic crop. I suppose I will re-file as an enhancement.

[markoheijnen]

Well the backend can't know what will be showed on the frontend. In your experience it is the thumbnail but there are a lot of examples it showed a medium image or a custom image size. Not sure if there is a filter to change which image will be showed.

Also it shows the original image without crop.

[beerpulse]

Just created ticket. Not sure if it clears things up.

​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22966

[markoheijnen]

Duplicate of #22966.