Image Rotation Repair
The Image Rotation Repair plugin simply fixes image orientation based on EXIF data. This is primarily a patch for mis-oriented images delivered from …
4.6(9 reviews)
·7.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Image Rotation Repair is a WordPress fix plugin with 7.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 25K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 16% this week. Top alternative: Enable CORS.
4.6/59 reviews
7.0K+active installs
25K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
The Image Rotation Repair plugin simply fixes image orientation based on EXIF data. This is primarily a patch for mis-oriented images delivered from iPhones. Functionally it filters all uploads and if EXIF->Orientation is set to a number greater than 1, then the image is resaved with a new orientation before the image is processed by wordpress.
NEW – supports postie plugin!
Documentation
No documentation needed.
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works perfectly
by Sandy Janas·8 years ago
This is the only plugin of its kind that I have found that works with Postie, and it does the job perfectly.
This is the plugin you want for EXIF Rotation Issues
by MetalMusicMan·8 years 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.
Not working with GitHub EXIF examples
by dozza·9 years 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).
Still does exactly what it needs to do!
by ThinkByDesign·10 years 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!
Super awesome!
by Ddev·10 years 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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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.2.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1
- Apply fixes courtesy of Jelte Liebrand. Thanks @Jelte!!!
- Add second filter to make this compatible with Postie!!! Yay email uploads!
Contributors
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