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title: "Media Editor Modal: Call for Testing"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/media-editor-modal-call-for-testing-xvpqdj4ol
source_url: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/05/21/media-editor-modal-call-for-testing
type: article
source: "Make WordPress Core"
published: 2026-05-22T00:07:38.583Z
updated: 2026-05-22T00:07:58.466Z
tags: ["wordpress", "image-editing"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Media Editor Modal: Call for Testing

**[Make WordPress Core](https://daily.dev/sources/wordpresscore)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The WordPress core team is calling for community testing of the Media Editor Modal, an experimental Gutenberg feature that replaces the existing inline image cropper in the Block Editor. The modal introduces freeform and aspect-ratio cropping, flip, rotation, and metadata editing in a unified workflow. It is built on a custom WordPress-native cropping library rather than the existing react-easy-crop dependency. Testers can try it via WordPress Playground with Gutenberg Trunk. Feedback is sought on crop flow correctness, UX clarity, keyboard and touch accessibility, and metadata editing behavior.

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