exif information

Hi Casper, glad you’re enjoying Pictorico. Your wildlife photos are beautiful and it looks like you’re making a lovely home for them!

I’ll answer your questions in batches:

How do I change what exif properties are displayed?

You’re referring a feature in the the Jetpack plugin’s Carousel module, which optionally lets you display the Exif data associated with an image. If you prefer not to display it, you can always uncheck the Metadata box under Settings > Media:

Exif data is embedded in your image file itself and isn’t something that can be changed in WordPress. You can learn more about the Exif format at Wikipedia. To change the Exif data you’d need a tool that does it. I Googled a little and found a few – try searching for something like exif editor mac or exif editor pc, depending on your platform.

How do I change where those exif properties are displayed? Right now, some exif properties fall off the screen at the bottom-right.

There isn’t an option to change the location where the Exif data is displayed, but you could always experiment with some CSS if you like. The Exif data is in a container with the class .jp-carousel-image-exif so you can target that class to move it around using CSS positioning.

The test post (https://www.blommeninbeeld.nl/gallery/2014/10/birds-eye-2/) has a single picture.
How can I change a post that deliberately contains a single picture to behave & look the same as one that contains a gallery of pictures?

Have you tried selecting the Gallery post format on those posts?

Unless perhaps I’m not understanding what you mean. In what specific way do you want it to behave and look?

Thanks for your extensive answers Kathryn.
I will test the exif box positioning tips and revert.

I am not interested in changing exif values. It is changing which exif parameters (variables) get read with the picture and stored & displayed that I am interested in to influence (preferably without adding another plugin).
As for the post with a single picture, yes I have tried to simple publish it in the format of a ‘gallery’. Somehow the behaviour is different though from a post that contains multiple images and is published in the format of a ‘gallery’ and the result is that of an ‘image’ format post.

I am not interested in changing exif values. It is changing which exif parameters (variables) get read with the picture and stored & displayed that I am interested in to influence (preferably without adding another plugin).

I haven’t used one myself, but I’d imagine that an Exif editor would let you edit which parameters are stored with the image. You’d probably need to do some experimenting to see if you can achieve what you’re after.

I checked to see if each piece of Exif data was perhaps wrapped in a unique CSS class that could then be used to hide it on the site, but alas, each piece of data is included in a list item tag with no unique class so they can’t easily be individually targetted with CSS.

As for the post with a single picture, yes I have tried to simple publish it in the format of a ‘gallery’. Somehow the behaviour is different though from a post that contains multiple images and is published in the format of a ‘gallery’ and the result is that of an ‘image’ format post.

Have you tried inserting the single image using the “Create Gallery” method?

If you did it that way, you would see something like this in your post editor when you flip to Text/HTML view:

[gallery ids="1011"]

(Where the ID matches the ID of your particular image in the Media Library.)

Let me know if this does the trick for you – I just tested it here, and I was able to open the image in a Carousel format and see the Exif info.

As I was in Africa to create some more content in the form of photo’s I was unable to respond any sooner. The method of single-photo gallery works indeed.
I am still trying to find out how to influence which existing exif tags are being displayed alongside the photo’s. Right now, it reads <camera>, <aperture>, <focal length>, <shutter speed>. Let’s say I would like <ISO> also to be displayed. How would I go about?

As I was in Africa to create some more content in the form of photo’s I was unable to respond any sooner.

Wow, that sounds exciting! Hope you got some good shots!

Let’s say I would like <ISO> also to be displayed. How would I go about?

I don’t think that’s something that can be done within WordPress. The carousel pulls out the Exif information it finds in the image file itself. If that information is not already in the image file, the carousefl can’t display it. I’d suggest you explore editing the image with an Exif editor, as I mentioned earlier, to see if it’s possible to add new Exif data that way, and then reupload the image.

Exif data is embedded in your image file itself and isn’t something that can be changed in WordPress. You can learn more about the Exif format at Wikipedia. To change the Exif data you’d need a tool that does it. I Googled a little and found a few – try searching for something like exif editor mac or exif editor pc, depending on your platform.

You’ll need to look beyond WordPress to accomplish what you’re after. Good luck!