I now have a first version of CwExif that can be downloaded. This is a new WordPress plugin that will show exif data for an image uploaded to the wordpress library in the title tag. There is a button on the media admin screen that will take the exif data and put it into the title tag. On hover, the data will be displayed.
This is just the first version. There is much more that I want to do with this plugin, but you have to start somewhere.
Get it here.
Here is another plugin, Lameda, that uses the exif data that comes from the images as uploaded into WordPress. Lets take a picture:
Here is the exif data when you put this tag in your post: [lameda_exif id=556]
The thing with this, is you still have to go into the post html and find out what the wordpress id of the image is. Still a bit of a pain. I like that it is pulling this from wordpress. Looks like wordpress stores this in the post_metadata table in an entry about the image. Not all data is saved, just some of the more basic ones like those shown. We just need a more automated, and visually appealing way to show it.
Exzo is the Exif and Zoom Image plugin for wordpress. I thought I would try it out. It is supposed to display some exif info around your pictures. Not sure it will work for me. I already post my photos on flickr, and just link to them here, but it seems like an interresting idea. One issue is that there is no way to pop in the image using the library tool. You need to goto the library and find out the image name, then in the HTML tab of the blog editor, you can add a statement like this:
[exzo url="" title=""]dsc_0021[/exzo]
That will get you this image on my site:
Most of the styling and which exif data that shows up is all customizeable. But I have a couple of issues. First, there seems to be an issue in the plugin where is doesn’t reference the zoom.css file. I had to modify exzo.php to point to it correctly. Second, the included lightbox effect isn’t so hot. The biggest issue is that the image pops up full size. Other versions I have seen try to scale the image for the viewport.
It does look like you could opt to just show the exif data though, like this :
[exif="dsc_0021.jpg"]
What would be really neat is if instead of the formatting of the picture, and the need to use this tag, is if via javascript, it could just attach itself to the image and display on a hover, or a click or something. Hmmm… that would be interesting…
I was trying to find out how many times I had pressed the shutter on my D40. I came accross a web site that can dig into ALL the EXIF data from an image. Jeffery’s Exif Viewer. I found that my camera has 13,229 actuations on it. Holy smokes. That’s a lot of pictures in less than a year. (Seems like it to me). Then I thought, wait, I bought this reconditioned. Maybe there were 10,000 on it when I got it. Nope. I dug up the first “role” that I shot on the camera. 216 on what I think was my first picture. Not too bad. I had feared that there would have been more.