P: Allow Crop Settings in Presets

Those are 5 extra steps that I can live without. 

As a working photographer, I shoot anticipating the crop I have to make. All I'm waiting for is Adobe to get the feature in. But if they can speed up Lr for the 21st century that would be a start too.

Cropping an image is such an arbitrary thing- how is software (in a preset) to know what you want in the 1:1 crop?
To accept a default 1:1 You could simply-
1. Select all images in the folder after importing.
2. Press "R"
3. Click the "Auto Sync" switch on.
4. Set the Crop tool to 1x1
5. Click [Done]
Done!

It would be great if I could have a square 1x1 crop applied as a preset to images as they are imported into Lightroom. I shoot all my images in square on camera, but they are changed back once they are imported into Lightroom. Please consider adding this feature. I would upgrade simply for it! Thank you very much! I appreciate all your hard work!

"I think it can't compete with an in-product solution, which also could be combined with development presets."

Agreed.

Thanks for your help, and it would indeed relieve some of the pain. I just checked it out and although it is a good work-around, I think it can't compete with an in-product solution, which also could be combined with development presets.
And it would be such a low hanging fruit to do.

The Any Crop plugin lets you define crop presets, with both relative aspect ratios as well as exact sizes (pixels, inches, or centimeters).  (The Xmp Crop plugin mentioned above is no longer available, unfortunately.)

Another need for this feature is social media. Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. have their guidelines on pixel width and height for a header photo, post photo, profile photo etc. to look well on their sites. While one specifies the exact pixels through export, cropping needs to happen before to select the most intriguing part of the photo. Of course this is possible through costum cropping but I don't want to remember dozens of cropping dimensions. I want LR to do that.
Please implement this basic feature!

Can't understand why Adobe keeps ignoring to add this basic functionality.

I desperately need to have the ability to include crop settings in develop presets.

My work requires me to have my photos at a particular aspect ratio and I shoot accordingly.

But Adobe is busy taking away and dumbing down features instead... just to add them back later.

Allowing Crop presets in Presets as well as in SDK can help me automate many tedious everyday tasks, thanks!

I only came to this problem by accident I'd forgotten to change the setting on an X100t when taking off its screw on 50mm lens, so when I corrected the images in lightroom via the Distortion tool (which can be a preset!) I then wanted to apply a standard crop to all these images to crop out the "Pincushion" effect I'd created.

In short, it would be really helpful to have full control to make a preset from any particular command in Lightroom, but yes a crop preset would indeed be really helpful.