WordPress 2.5 introduced an excellent feature: when you upload an image it captures and saves the EXIF data that comes with it (time, aperture, focal length etc). What it doesn’t do, to my knowledge, is provide a nice easy way to get that data out to display it. That is what this plugin does.

There are two ways to use this plugin.

The Shortcode

To display the data in a post for a specific photo that you have uploaded you can use the short code:

[photodata id=’optional’ url=’optional’ output_string=’optional’ fail=’optional’]

The ID is included for legacy purposes, you should use the URL.

The url is the full url to the image.

By default the data is presented in a list, but you can specify how it is presented, including html, and you can choose which data is shown, for example:

[photodata output_string=’<p class=”image_meta”>Shot with a ?camera? by ?credit? on ?created_timestamp?. (?focal_length?, ?shutter_speed? @ ?aperture?)</p>’]

The codes surrounded by question marks (?shutter_speed?) will be replaced by the relevent data.

Fail is the message to display if there is no data available.

If you don’t include any of the optional fields the code will assume you want the data for the first image attached to the post. Note this is not the first image in the post, but the first image in the upload gallery that you see when you upload images.

The automated method

If you have a photoblog this is likely to be of most use to you.

Under the settings menu you will find an option for EXIF Data. This lets you select a category, choose a title, and set the default output string.

The photo data will now be automatically added to every post in that category. It will use the first image in the attached gallery. As above this is not the first image in the post, but in the gallery you see when uploading photos.

Example

I am using the plugin on my photoblog.

Download

You can Download it here fun-with-photo-data