Getting metadata out of wordpress images

As I mentioned in my recent post, I have just switched to WordPress platform from my custom CMS system and I wanted to do something that gave me a bit of trouble as I couldn’t find information on how to do it, so I thought I should share my findings.

If you check my portfolio entries, you’ll notice that I have gallery images attached to each entry. The actual “attachment” is done by the portfolio plugin I use. I upload images through the WordPress media library and then mark them as gallery images for portfolio entries. Now, what the plugin didn’t offer and what I wanted to do is to show captions and descriptions of the images.
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New site: hello wordpress! May 5th, 2010

After 3 years of releasing my first portfolio website, it was time for a redesign. Old site worked perfectly well, except for one tiny detail: when I originally made it, I didn’t think I would need a blog. I still don’t really need it, but I wanted to be able to write a little something here and there.

Why i chose WordPress

Of course, I could have made something of my own and integrated it in my custom CMS, but when it comes to blogging one should really not bother reinventing the wheel, having a mature product such as WordPress around. Read the rest of this entry »

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