Title: Image Orientation Issues
Last modified: March 8, 2021

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# Image Orientation Issues

 *  [camprunamuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/camprunamuk/)
 * (@camprunamuk)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-orientation-issues/)
 * Hello!
 * I am seeking help with correcting image rotation problems for our WordPress site.
 * We had uploaded many photos (quite a few shot with an Android cell phone) with
   no problems with image orientation. After upload, if an image was sideways or
   upside-down, we would just manually edit in the WordPress Media Library and it
   worked fine.
 * An update was done to WordPress to automate handling of image orientation. I’m
   sure this was a welcome change for many users, but many of our pictures were 
   automatically messed up. Many are sideways or upside-down now. I would be fine
   with being able to manually fix each picture, but the editor in the WordPress
   Media Library will not fix the problem. For example, with a photo that is upside-
   down, instead of being able to rotate 90 degrees at a time until the picture 
   is correct, the rotate buttons move the image 90 degrees to the left on the first
   click and then just returns it to the upside-down orientation on the second click.
   What is really odd is that it doesn’t matter if we click “rotate right” or “rotate
   left” the image rotates 90 degrees to the left and then upside-down.
 * I have searched forums and tried several different plugins and nothing seems 
   to work. I need to fix this and cannot find help.
 * Please help me find the answer to this problem! Thank you!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fimage-orientation-issues%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-orientation-issues/#post-14156090)
 * I asked in the #core-media Slack channel, and core developer Mike Schroder said:
 * > That’s interesting. Yeah, it was fixed for new uploads, but not retroactively
   > applied to any images.
   >  I wonder if browser handling was changed for any browsers,
   > since previously the issue was that some browsers respected the metadata and
   > others did not. Also possible there has been a regression of course.
   > Previous ticket: [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14459](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14459)
   > 
   > And: [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37140](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37140)
 * If you can add any useful details to the tickets, it would be more visible and
   help move things forward.

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## Tags

 * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/)
 * [media library](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media-library/)
 * [orientation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/orientation/)

 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-orientation-issues/#post-14156090)
 * Status: not resolved

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