bondbloke

I hadn’t got that far quite yet. What I am doing is creating a photoblog theme with Next\Previous links and picking up the url of the full size image to read the exif data; however when it comes to the oldest post the url is not being picked up. Therefore I thought that if there were an easy way of checking for the oldest post this may aid me to get the required url for the image in that particular post.

This is the relevant piece of code:-

$size = "full";

   $photos = get_children( array(
    'post_parent' => $post->ID,
    'post_status' => 'inherit',
    'post_type' => 'attachment',
    'post_mime_type' => 'image',
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'orderby' => 'menu_order ID') );

	   	if ($photos) {
	  	$photo = array_shift($photos);
		$result = wp_get_attachment_url($photo->ID, $size);
  	}

$imgurl = $result;

$exif = exif_read_data($imgurl, 'EXIF');

but for some reason when I get to the oldest post $photos is empty.

Thanks for that i_g_wright, I have read that through several times, and tried most of what is suggested, but it only seems to work in the context of a gallery which is not what I am trying to do.

What I am trying tp do is have a single post with a photo and the exif data next to it with next and previous links to work forwards and backwards through the images. At this point everything I try returns no information at all. My thinking is that when WP (on uploading) creates smaller images it wipes out the exif data on these smaller images, which has to be retrieved from the original image, and that is what I can’t get my head around right now.

You’re a genius Chip! That is the obvious solution, so b’y obvious that I didn’t even think of it… says he banging his head against the wall.

Not using multisite. Even tried installing it on my development installation of WP on my PC with the same result – it simply refuses to show on the Themes page, just palie weird…

Sorry to disappoint, that was the conclusion I came to from reading the codex, but PHP has been working fine beforehand, so unless WP needs some specific requirements from PHP it should work perfectly also. That’s whay I aksed here, I thought it was that simple also.