Opened 5 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#7278 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)

Special characters in the EXIF data confuse wp_get_attachment functions

Reported by: arminbw Owned by: anonymous
Priority: normal Milestone: 2.6
Component: General Version: 2.5.1
Severity: normal Keywords: exif iptc
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Description

Digital cameras often put special characters in the EXIF data of their images (e.g. German "Umlaute"). After uploading such images parts of this data are put into the database.

Afterwards the function "wp_get_attachment_thumb_url" will return the URL of the full-size image, instead of the thumbnail.

Attachments (2)

evil_exif.jpg​ (30.9 KB) - added by arminbw 5 years ago.
small picture with troublesome EXIF data
no_thumb_no_middle.jpg​ (37.7 KB) - added by arminbw 5 years ago.

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Change History (4)

arminbw — 5 years ago

small picture with troublesome EXIF data

comment:1   arminbw — 5 years ago

  • Keywords iptc added

The second attached image (no_thumb_no_middle.jpg) contains no EXIF data, only a single IPTC entry featuring a copyright symbol (a not so unrealistic scenario).

After uploading, a thumbnail- as well as a middle-sized image are created.

But "wp_get_attachment_image($imageid, 'medium', false)" will only return the full-size image, thus breaking all layouts.

arminbw — 5 years ago

comment:2   arminbw — 5 years ago

  • Resolution set to duplicate
  • Status changed from new to closed

Just found ​http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6412 which adresses these issues.

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