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Deep Thoughts by Robert Felty

thoughts on wordpress, latex, cooking et alia
June 22nd, 2010

New wordpress plugin – Image Meta

Image meta options

Image meta options

I just released my 7th wordpress plugin, Image Meta. This one has to do with image handling. Before wordpress 3.0, when you uploaded an image, the filename of the image was set as the title, and if you had given the image a caption (e.g. with Picasa), then the IPTC caption would be used as the caption for the image. In wordpress 3.0, the default is now to use the caption for the title of the image. I don’t like this, mostly because I had set up my theme’s image handling based on the old way. So I decided to write a little plugin which hooks into the image uploading process, and sets all four image fields at once – the title, alt text, caption, and description. The plugin allows you to select between setting each field to either the filename, the IPTC caption, or leaving it blank. I hope some others find it useful.

One Response to “New wordpress plugin – Image Meta”

  1. On August 3rd, 2010 at 8:12 pm
    Chris Mitchell wrote:

    Hi Robert

    I would love to try your plugin but when I activate it and try to go to the Settings page I get a “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” error. I am running WP 3.0 – can you advise on what I might be doing wrong? Many thanks, Chris

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