Thesography 1.0 Support

Hey Cecily,

Make sure that the photos are actually attached to the post. You can do that by going to the Media Library and there is a column saying which post the photos is attached to.
Since WordPress 2.8 there is a weird little behaviour where you have to have entered a title and clicked in the writing box, triggering a save of the draft before uploading your images, otherwise there is no post ID assigned to the post to attach the image to. Or something like that.
If that’s the case try editing the relevant post and uploading the image again from there (maybe delete the first one from the media library if it’s not attached to anything).

Lovely Bubble Day photo by the way!

Elaine — if you had to change the URL of the post that the image was attached to in the media library then I doubt WordPress knows which post the image is attached to. If it doesn’t have the Post Title in the attachment column:

I would recommend uploading it within the post’s uploader again (and deleting the old one).

Elaine — My plugin uses the thesis_hook_after_post hook, so that needs to be in tact (and should be in Thesis unless you’ve got something funky going on with page templates). It also uses the EXIF that is automatically imported to the database by WordPress, but does not display anything if that EXIF isn’t there.

The EXIF is definitely in your image, I can see it if I open the image with MacMetaShow… Do you have any other image related plugins that might interact with the uploading of images to WordPress? Perhaps they are not compatible with my plugin and I would like to test that out.

My plugin does not need to add anything to custom_functions.php. It uses the same principles as using functions in custom_functions.php. In fact, before I wrote the plugin I did have most of it in custom_functions.php on my site. By putting it in a plugin I merely activate the functions from a different location in the WordPress installation.

I wouldn’t suggest that you need to re-upload all your old images, but that doesn’t mean you can’t display EXIF for future images… If you care to, you could make me a temporary user account with administrator privileges for your blog and I can see if I can diagnose the problem. I don’t think I can do much more remotely. Let me know if you want to do that and I’ll email you.

Thanks for that Elaine! I found the problem… and the EXIF is working now (to a point). It’s working on this post.

The problem was that your most recent post didn’t have the image attached to the post, so the plugin can’t automatically detect the image ID. For older posts, the field that I’m using to determine whether the EXIF should be displayed or not is only saved when the post is saved, since old posts were saved before the plugin was installed, the field isn’t there. This does seem like a bug and I will try to come up with a way to fix that.

In the meantime, if you make sure that you enter the title and click in the post text box before you upload your image, that will ensure that the image is attached to the post and all your future posts will display EXIF.
To show EXIF on your old posts you can add the display function via custom_functions.php. I tested this in your custom_functions.php and it seems to work:

function display_old_exif() {
	$oldposts = 20090830;
	if ((get_the_time('Ymd') < $oldposts) && function_exists('display_exif'))
		echo display_exif('aperture,camera,focus,iso,shutter');
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_post','display_old_exif');

Oops! My bad… named the function something that was already a function name. It needs to be

function custom_exif() {
	if (function_exists('display_exif'))
		echo display_exif('aperture,camera,focus,iso,shutter');
}
add_action('thesis_hook_before_headline','custom_exif');

I.e., the function name to insert the exif into the theme should not be “display_exif”.