How to Fix Upside Down or Flipped Images in WordPress

Recently, one of our readers asked if it’s possible to fix flipped images issue in WordPress. Apparently sometimes when you upload images from iPhone or other iOS devices, your images may appear flipped or turned upside down. In this article, we will show you how to fix upside down or flipped images in WordPress.

Why WordPress Shows Upside Down or Flipped Images

Some mobile operating systems, most notably iOS, do not transfer EXIF metadata required by other software to determine an image’s orientation.

It is also possible that this EXIF metadata may not transfer properly. It could also get stripped down by some other software on your device or your WordPress site.

Fixing this issue may require you to use some image editing program to flip the images. You can also do that inside WordPress. See our guide on how to how to rotate, scale, and flip images in WordPress.

However, this would become a chore if you regularly upload images from your phone. Let’s take a look at how to easily fix these flipped and upside down images problem in WordPress.

How to Fix Flipped or Upside Down Images Issue in WordPress?

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Image Rotation Fixer plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

The plugin works out of the box, and there are no settings for you to configure.

Upon activation, the plugin hooks itself up to WordPress media upload function. As soon as you upload a new image, it automatically fixes the Exif metadata to properly rotate the image.

If the first plugin doesn’t work for you, then this probably means that your web host does not have the PHP EXIF extension enabled. Don’t worry we have another plugin that would do the job for you.

You will need to install and activate the iOS Images Fixer plugin.

This plugin uses ImageMagik and GD extensions to fix the EXIF metadata for images.

Upon activation, you just need to visit Media » iOS Images Fixer page. The plugin will automatically attempt to find and fix the flipped images. If it doesn’t, then you need to click on ‘Fix All iOS-broken’ button to start fixing upside down images.

That’s all, we hope this article helped you lean how to fix upside down or flipped images in WordPress. You may also want to see our list of how to fix the most common image issues in WordPress.

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Your site is down, what should you do now?

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Here are a couple of things can be done when your website is down.

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1. Is your hosting account suspended?
Did you make your hosting payment on time? Did your website exceed the bandwidth limit? Is your site href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.com/featured-articles/bluehost-hostmonster-user-alert-cpu-throttling/">throttled for some unknown reason? Check your inbox and see if there is any account suspension notification.

2. Is faulty node causing the outage?
Make a Traceroute and Ping check to see if there is a faulty node somewhere in your connection. If so, there is nothing much you can do but wait.

3. Is your site down for everyone?
Visit href="http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/">DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com (awesome web tool) and check if your ISP is having connection problem with your name server. If so, contact your ISP to rectify the problem.

4. Is your site down because of planned maintenance?
Check with your web host server status report and see if there is any maintenance outage announcement. If you are using Bluehost or Hostmonster, you can visit href="http://serverstatus.bluehost.com/">serverstatus.bluehost.com/ or href="http://serverstatus.hostmonster.com/">serverstatus.hostmonster.com/, see if your server is affected by regular maintenance.

What if none of the above is the cause?

If all of the above do not resolve your problem, then things are not looking good for you. Your web server outage is most probably an unplanned event and it is time to get in touch with your web host supports. Shoot an email or get on to the live chat system and communicate with the support staffs.

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[infographic] How much does it cost when a data center is down?

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This is an enlightening and terrifying infographic.

Data centres are something we are constantly reliant upon for everyday functionality, whether we’re online shopping, booking flights or even performing a cheeky Google search. This big old datafest gives you a look into the absolute global devastation that data centre downtime has the potential to cause.

• Computing demand at data center recorded a 63% growth in 2012.
• trillion would be lost per hour if all data centers in the world go down at the same time.
• 59% of Fortune 500 companies experience a minimum of 1.6 hours downtime per week, which could potentially lead to million annual losses in labor cost.
• style="line-height: 1.5em;">Google’s recent 5 minute outage is led to a 40% drop in worldwide Internet traffic.
• 73% of downtime is the result of human error.

21st century civilisation is totally dependent on communications, travel, security and data access – without this accessibility, financial and even societal collapse are inevitable. We think this is a very significant infographic and a real eye-opener in terms of the colossal importance of data. Take a look at the catastrophic aftermath and the unimaginable costs of these information outages.

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Web Hosting News Update: Google Cloud’s Down Time, Blog’s Inventor, SlideShare’s Changes, and Shellshock Hackers Hit Yahoo

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October isn’t yet halfway over and already has been a big news month for web hosting. From down time, to hackers, to changes in how various websites work, there is enough news to keep you in reading material for days. While we can’t cover all the news items, WHSR will focus on a few of the ones we feel are important to website owners.

Google Cloud’s Down Time

Many small business owners utilize Google for a variety of tasks.

Let’s face it, love Google or hate them, they offer services that small business owners such as bloggers need to be effective.

Whether you use Google Drive, Google Hangouts or utilize their analytics to figure out how well your site is performing, you may have experienced interruptions on Wednesday, October 8th.

Analytics was fixed within minutes, but users also experienced downtime with Google Cloud Storage. The problems were reported starting around 11:30 EST and went on for about 90 minutes. Google posted in their forums:

“We apologize for any issues this may have caused to you or your users and thank you fo ryour patience and continued support.”

They went on to reassure users that it is a priority to make sure their systems are reliable.

Inventor of Blogging Celebrates 20 Years

On Saturday, October 11th, href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/12/happy-20th-anniversary-dave-winer-inventor-of-the-blog" target="_blank">The Guardian reported on the inventor of the blog, Dave Winer. This month, in 1994, Winer published his first blog post via software he created. It was called Davenet.

For more than 20 years, Winer has been on the cutting edge of Internet innovations. He had a hand in helping create how RSS runs.

Today, Winer is still blogging via his blog href="http://scripting.com/" target="_blank">Scripting News. Spend five minutes reading through his blog and you’ll be as hooked as I was. He is obviously one of the clearest thinking bloggers on the Internet and a true pioneer of blogging.

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Businesses who use SlideShare for presentations or to promote their websites will be thrilled to learn that the company has released an href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id917418728" target="_blank">iOS app. What this means is that users can now access their slides from anywhere via Apple devices.

The release is for iOS 8 and above and the app is optimized for the iPhone 5 and above.

There are several ways you can utilize this app. Create a presentation ahead of time and share it on the fly with a potential investor. Read through other people’s presentations to gather ideas and inspiration. Or, even use it to review a slide you previously created before going into a big meeting.

Yahoo! Attacked by Romanian Hackers Via ShellShock?

Jonathan Hall of href="http://www.futuresouth.us/wordpress/?p=25" target="_blank">Future South Technologies, an online security company, released a pretty strong blog post about the infiltration on Yahoo! and insists it was from Shellshock vulnerability.

While the attack was going on, Hall did his best to inform Yahoo! as well as Lycos and WinZip and he contacted the FBI about the exploitation of these sites.

Hall’s issue with Yahoo! is that Alex Stamos, CISO of Yahoo!, posted a statement that they were not iimpacted by Shellshock but they “isolated a handful of servers” that were at risk. Hall uses facts to back up his statement that Yahoo! was indeed breached via the Shellshock vulnerability.

What do you think? Is Stamos being honest with the public? Does Hall have a good point?

Share your views in the comments area below. As always, if you have news that would be of interest to other website owners, feel free to share that as well.

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