_rotate_image_resource() deprecated

Lately, I’ve been getting a deprecated notice regarding _rotate_image_resource(). The advice is to use the WP_Image_Editor class instead. I don’t think use of the class is entirely necessary but is probably good practice.

Anyhow, to avoid the debug notice you can just replace:

$image = _rotate_image_resource( $image, $orientation );

with:

$rotated = imagerotate( $image, $orientation, 0 );
if ( is_resource( $rotated ) ) {
    imagedestroy( $image );
    $image = $rotated;
}

Hope that helps.

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