Remove exif and metadata

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1. ★★★★★ shtrom

   2.3y ago

   The plugin does what it says on the tin, and that’s good. It may however be doing it too well: it also strips the transparency channel of PNGs. I just disabled it to upload a bunch of PNGs, and that was a functional one-off workaround. This may get in the way when you have more of a distribution of transparent PNGs and EXIF-ladden JPGs to upload regularly, though.

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2. ★★★★★ lucashw

   2.7y ago

   Broke my client’s website on version 6.4.2, don’t download if you’re using this version

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3. ★★★★★ benmakkink

   7.4y ago

   Still does what it says it will

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4. ★★★★★ crabsandwich

   9.5y ago

   Been searching on how to remove the guff from Olympus photos and i came up against a patch to WP that had never been implemented (i think) and a lot of comments surrounding it. Will post the link in there to here. Nice work. Hopefully it never needs updating. You have to upload your photos through a page/post or as i discovered it also works when adding a product (woocommerce) too. You can bulk upload everything through these methods and it strips the exif data. Thank you so much! This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by crabsandwich. This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by crabsandwich.

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5. ★★★★★ felipepinheirodev

   10.2y ago

   Fixed the issue about the iphone photo orientation.

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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. 2026-01-20 300+ → 200+ down after 310 days in tier
2. 2025-03-16 400+ → 300+ down after 270 days in tier
3. 2024-06-19 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2024-06-18 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in tier
5. 2024-06-15 500+ → 400+ down after 3 days in tier
6. 2024-06-12 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2024-06-10 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2024-06-09 400+ → 500+ up after 1 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).

• MMWW 200+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags B
• ImageMagick Engine 60K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
• Format Media Titles 5K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• I Img Title Removal 1K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D
• N No Image Link 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
• WP Strip Image Metadata 700+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D

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Remove exif and metadata: 200+ active installs, 4.0★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/remove-exif-and-metadata