Postie doesn’t handle image metadata

  • Resolved daveslc

    (@daveslc)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    Postie does not handle the description field in the metadata consistent with how wordpress handles it.
    Wordpress places the IPTC Core Description field from the image file in the caption field in wordpress and thus automatically generates captions. Postie does not do that, and hence there’s no easy way to generate captions from the image file itself.
    Note that IPTC Core Metadata does not have a ‘caption’ field, only a ‘description’ field.
    Please fix this so that it’s consistent with wordpress.

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  • Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for the report.

    Postie calls the same methods WordPress does for uploading files to the media library. In particular Postie calls media_handle_sideload() which eventually calls wp_read_image_metadata() which extracts the caption.

    If you supply a caption via #img Postie will update the caption. See http://postieplugin.com/faq/managing-image-placement-plain-text-emails/

    Note also that some email clients resize images and lose the IPTC/EXIF data.

    Do you have an example image that works via upload in the WordPress admin, but doesn’t work via Postie?

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