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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Keeping the metadata in standard resized imagesThanks for at least responding. But adding metadata isn’t my problem–my photo editing software does that for me–it’s keeping the metadata.
The issue is I have metadata in place when I upload the original files, and my image library plugin does a good job of using that data for other things I need when working with the full-sized images (some of that metadata is quite detailed), but the standard resized images are stripped of that data. That means if I use one of my images on the text part of my blog, it no longer has data (no info, no copyright, etc.). And it’s many many images. Currently, I’m manually adjusting the size of each image from fullsize within a given posting, but I used to be able to select, say “medium” and it would keep its metadata without my having to carefully edit the image size by hand each time.
Any ideas? Surely there’s an up-to-date plugin that does that (or a WordPress update in the pipeline, maybe?)
Thanks for your help on both items. I’ve had some fun learning how to use the MLA features that are within my skill-set. And I’ll keep a look-out for your next updates. btw, I was totally delighted to donate to your fair-trade group.
I wonder if you might consider adding something to MLA to help keep the metadata on those intermediate-size images, at least as an option. The WordPress codex says there is an option in the media settings, but I think that’s old info. Most anyone using your plug-in has a deep interest in their images and those pre-sized smaller images are so handy for including in mainly-text blog postings, but the only thing I found that kept that metadata is an old (WP 1.5!) plug-in that finally seems to have become obsolete or at least unreliable.
Wow! Thanks for such a strong starting push. I’ve been experimenting and trying out mappings to help me organize my uploads as well as getting them properly tagged during posting. I’ve run into 2 oddities:
1) When I do the process to add a custom field name, it does work–and is very useful– but the new field is not in the drop-down box for adding a new mapping rule on the IPTC settings page, it MIGHT be in the drop-down box on the Custom Settings page (I tried 2–your IPTC example and a Copyright Notice and it did it for just the copyright notice), and it WILL be in the drop-down box on a specific Edit Media page. A bug? Or a constraint on new fields that may not be appropriate for mapping rules at some level?
2) Previousy, if I included a media file in a post and then downloaded the image while viewing the post, the file’s metadata was transferred with the image. That isn’t working since I started doing these manipulations. That is, all of the file information (apart from the file name) is missing, not just the bits I have been using. Is there a switch somewhere that is triggering a “cleaning” of the metadata as the file is downloaded? I ran a test post with some of my new and old files, and there is a sudden change in what comes down in a transfer. However, the information is still there when I inspect the online file using MLA or the regular Library.
Sorry to keep asking questions…it only demonstrates a keen interest in using MLA….really!