Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 18 months ago
#7580 new feature request
Use Exif description to autofill the caption
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | Future Release |
| Component: | Upload | Version: | 2.6 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | needs-patch |
| Cc: | RanYanivHartstein |
Description
Hello,
I test a lot of softwares to create a Exif description for my pictures.
Like "Exif Farm" or other kind of this softwares.
But When I Upload this picure in wp 2.6 the description will not show!
but i have some picture from the web, and when i upload them, wordpress show the description of it automatically in description Box!
like this picture:
http://www.hinhxinh.com/data/media/8/Beijing_Olympic_2008_-___075.jpg
and show description on it correctly:
http://i33.tinypic.com/2yyqk1t.jpg
Please tell me:
the problem is from Wp,
Or My software is not original?
So What should i do to show Description Exif Data in wp Correctly?
Change History (9)
- Milestone set to Future Release
- Priority changed from high to low
- Type changed from defect (bug) to enhancement
- Keywords needs-patch added
- Component changed from General to Upload
- Owner anonymous deleted
- Summary changed from I have a problem with Exif Data In wp 2.6 to Use Exif description to autofill the caption
- Type changed from enhancement to feature request
- Milestone changed from Future Release to 2.9
- Priority changed from low to high
Related: #9417
This ticket needs to be reviewed again I think exif data is reflected. I suggest to close as wontfix in the meantime.
Just reviewed again. Description should than be added to the list of metadata to retrieve from exif + after upload it should be checked for that value to fill the description field.
- Cc RanYanivHartstein added
IPTC metadata can also be better handled.
Picasa saves image captions created by users in the IPTC Caption field. In Picasa, this is called "Make a Caption!".
However, when uploading these images, WP uses the IPTC Caption field for the Image Title field, and the Caption field remains empty.
Since Picasa is a very popular photo management tool, and since it the IPTC Caption field sounds like a good candidate for being used as an image caption in WP, I believe it would make sense to use data from the IPTC Caption field to auto-fill the Caption field on WP.
To reproduce this, use Picasa to add a caption to an image and upload that image to WP install. I was able to reproduce this on WP 3.0.
I made a quick plugin to fix this minor problem with Picasa captions a few months ago. Looks like the fields are just being used wrongly by WP to me.
Although different programs creating EXIF may be using them differently, so a wide variety of sample images with auto-generated EXIF information might be useful to get a feel of how the IPTC fields are actually being used by devices.
http://ottopress.com/2011/picasa-and-wordpress-and-captions/

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