Image Rotation Repair

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1. ★★★★★ Sandy Janas

   9.0y ago

   This is the only plugin of its kind that I have found that works with Postie, and it does the job perfectly.

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2. ★★★★★ MetalMusicMan

   9.0y ago

   Don’t worry that this plugin is 6 years old, it still works perfectly in 2017. Don’t bother downloading other plugins to deal with EXIF data rotation issues from silly iPhone pictures, this is the plugin you want. When you upload a photo to the media library, this plugin strips the EXIF data and rotates the picture according to the EXIF data before stripping it. Presto! Thanks so much to the author(s) for their work on this simple feature that should be a base part of WordPress.

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3. ★★★★★ dozza

   9.5y ago

   I want a solution to this issue, and after reading Dave Perrett’s excellent post on EXIF Orientation values here I tried this plugin with the example test images on GitHub here. By default with WordPress vanilla install currently, the images uploaded to the media library and placed in a post are not ‘corrected’ and maintain their incorrect orientation, which is not good. After adding & activating the plugin, deleting the images permanently and then importing them again, I got the same result. So it seems the plugin has no effect. Can anyone else corroborate this? UPDATE: After testing this (which didn’t work) and many other plugins, I’ve confirmed that Fix Image Rotation plugin does work with 4.7.2 version of WordPress (vanilla). This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by dozza. Reason: add more detail This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by dozza. Reason: Update with plugin that does work

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4. ★★★★★ ThinkByDesign

   10.4y ago

   I was running into issues where I needed to upload a bunch of photos from a client that had been taken from their iphone. WP was doing all kinds of funky rotation and this straightened them out!

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5. ★★★★★ Ddev

   10.9y ago

   Works like magic, saved my life. I was going to pull my hair out because all images i uploaded from smartphone were rotated, then I found this awesome plugin. This fixed everything and saved y hair too 😉 Thanks very much!

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6. ★★★★★ Joe

   12.0y ago

   Thank you so much, this was driving me crazy! Is compatible with the Amazon S3 Uploads plugin.

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7. ★★★★★ Bard

   12.0y ago

   Especially login to say thank you.

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8. ★★★★★ Bard

   12.0y ago

   Especially login to say thank you.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.1 Apply fixes courtesy of Jelte Liebrand. Thanks @Jelte!!! Add second filter to make this compatible with Postie!!! Yay email uploads! 1.1
2. — Version 1.0 Initial plugin release. 1.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2024-04-25 8K+ → 7K+ down after 4 days in tier
2. 2024-04-21 7K+ → 8K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2024-04-18 8K+ → 7K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2024-04-17 7K+ → 8K+ up after 11 days in tier
5. 2024-04-06 8K+ → 7K+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-04-05 7K+ → 8K+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2024-04-03 8K+ → 7K+ down after 40 days in tier
8. 2024-02-23 7K+ → 8K+ up after 25 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• I Image Rotation Fixer 1K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags D
• WP Strip Image Metadata 700+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
• Imsanity 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
• Firelight Lightbox 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• Responsive Lightbox & Gallery 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
• S Simple Lightbox 100K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag B

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Image Rotation Repair: 7K+ active installs, 4.6★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/image-rotation-repair