wordpress crop image there has been an error cropping your image

So while i was just starting to work on a potential website, and at the very initial stage of setting up the favicon i got an error in cropping the image. As a result the favicon wouldn’t upload and would stay stuck with nothing happening. I was doing this in my localhost using Xampp.

Here’s the 5 minute Solution i found

1. Open Xampp from the taskbar
2. Click on Config shown in line with Apache
3. Click PHP (php.ini)-> a Notepad will open
4. Click Edit-> Find-> Type gd
5. You will reach the line ;extension=gd
6. Remove ; ( semicolon ) and save
7. Stop and start Apache and MySQL in Xampp

Go to your website and try uploading the favicon, it should now be working

Also find this useful video to follow