What would be the URL to display the Wordpress image editor with an image from the media library?

Question

I want to be able to call the Media Library image editor from my plugin. From what I can see looking at the console that it is passing a URL like so http://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?action=image-editor&_ajax_nonce=aa3dbd63c2&postid=551&do=open. But I have not been able to make this work. Does anyone know how it would be done?

Answer 1

If the edit link to your image is:

http://example.tld/wp-admin/post.php?post=551&action=edit

then the link to the image editor for that image is:

http://example.tld/wp-admin/post.php?post=551&action=edit&image-editor

The $_GET['image-editor'] is checked for in the edit_form_image_editor() function.

PS: I first noticed this trick, when testing this avatar plugin recently (I'm not related to that plugin)