EXIF is no longer preserved

  • Hi,

    EXIF data is an essential component to my site, and WP has preserved this until recently. Now all image versions/thumbnails uploaded are stripped of EXIF. I have tested with all plugins deactivated, with same result, so this is WP core. EXIF is preserved only in the original image.

    How to revert back to preserving EXIF?

    Morten

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    See if this tutorial points in the right direction: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-exif-photo-tags-in-wordpress/

    Thread Starter Morten Ross

    (@rosmo01)

    How is this going to help when the EXIF is stripped from the images, which is what this is about?

    Sounds to me like the Imagick PHP module might have become disabled or something and it’s reverted to using the GD graphics package which doesn’t preserve EXIF data in images. This has happened to me a couple times when my webhost updated the PHP version but forgot to add that module back in.

    Might try putting an info.php file in the root directory where your blog is with the following:

    <?php
phpinfo();
?>

    Then, launch that file and see if the Imagick module is being loaded. If not, might need to contact your host.

    • This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by MarkRH.
    Thread Starter Morten Ross

    (@rosmo01)

    Thank you Mark, that was spot on! PHP was upgraded, and Imagick was not active by default in the new PHP 8.1 for unknown reasons.

    But how do I regenerate the images? All my image uploads are reduced by WordPress to the default max size of 2560 pixels, adding “-scaled” to the e nd of the file name (https://www.ross.no/wp-content/2023/12/20231218-DSC_4509-1-5.5-scaled.jpg). When testing thumbnail regenerate plugins they don’t show options for this file, which is the file I need regenerated.

    • This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by Morten Ross.
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