Image Rotated

I answered my own question, but now I need another questions answered. So I see regenerate thumbnails, also removes ALL editing we did, which was to rotate the image. So now if we choose to use your plugin, any images we rotated 90 degrees is going to be rotated back and then resized. Is there a way to edit this so it doesn’t rotate the images, but simply does the 1:1 resizing? Any suggestions? Is there a way to make all current changes permanent, and then use your tool, so that it wouldn’t “rotate” back as it no longer things the rotation was an edit?

Hi @kbdiverservices

Thank you for the report!

This is an issue with Regenerate Thumbnails plugin, already reported here and here. The problem seems to happens only with big images that are downscaled by WordPress when the height or width is above the threshold of 2560.

As a workaround, you can install this extension as a plugin to hooks into Regenerate Thumbnails to use the edited image.

If for any reason you want to restore the original big image, you can add this code snippet to your child theme functions.php file or use the Code Snippets plugin:

add_filter('_wa_restore_original_image', '__return_true');

I hope this helps.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Best,
Nabil

Hi, so if I understand you correctly, you are saying I can install that extension, then run regenerate thumbnails and the end results will be 1:1 scaling of all the images in their current “edited” state? So it won’t rotate them back? How do I install that extension?

Hi @kbdiverservices

Yes, that’s correct. The extension provides a workaround to fix the issue with the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin. Here’s how to install it.

In your WordPress admin:
1. Go to Plugins > Add New
2. Click the “Upload plugin” button and choose the zip file, then click the “Install now” button
3. Activate the plugin

Once it’s done, edit your image and regenerate thumbnails to create the 1:1 thumbnails.

I haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved.
If you have any further questions, feel free to start a new thread.

Best,
Nabil

Hi, I replied to a separate thread about it not working on all images. I’ve not received a response from you all.