Title: Image Metadata Last modified: August 24, 2016 --- # Image Metadata * [johntodd10000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johntodd10000/) * (@johntodd10000) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-metadata-2/) * Great plugin but it seem to strip out image metadata when it resizes images. I use Imagemagick to do my WordPress image resizes which keeps metadata but Retina 2 then loses it in all the @2x images. As a photographer this is a very important issue any workarounds? Thanks, John. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Plugin Author [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/) * (@tigroumeow) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-metadata-2/#post-6180317) * This is actually not related to the plugin. The plugin is using the standard resizing functions of WordPress. Check your image sizes generated by WordPress, they are probably the same. * However, normally, the metadata is not stripped by default. On all my installs I have all my metadata on every image sizes. * Thread Starter [johntodd10000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johntodd10000/) * (@johntodd10000) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-metadata-2/#post-6180473) * Hi Jordy, Thanks for the quick reply. However slight confusion on what is happening. I am concerned with the embeded image EXIF metadata such as: Author, Copyright etc. When using the standard resizing of WordPress the metadata is preserved in the original uploaded file but removed when WordPress resizes. However by forcing WordPress to use ImageMagick to do the resizing all metadata is preserved. ImageMagick can run directly as a PHP module or via the ImageMagick Engine plugin. The problem is that Retina seems to use the standard WordPress resizing and is not using ImageMagick hence all my Retina resized images have no EXIF data but all my ImageMagick resized images do. So is it possible to make Retina use ImageMagick as the resizing engine? Thanks again, John. * [modularte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modularte/) * (@modularte) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-metadata-2/#post-6180478) * Hi, * I have the same Problem. Please make it possible that wp retina 2x is working with ImageMagick. * Cheers Norman * Plugin Author [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/) * (@tigroumeow) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-metadata-2/#post-6180479) * My issue is that the Retina plugin uses WP internal functions to do the resizing. If the resizing should be done through ImageMagick (and it might, depending on the PHP configuration) then it should automatically work. * However, if you force your resizing to be done through ImageMagick through a plugin, that specific plugin should handle the retina as well. Since I am using the normal functions, that ImageMagick plugin should actually take care of it already. * modularte, are you using that plugin as well? (ImageMagick Engine?) * Wouldn’t be a good idea to “invite” the developer of this plugin to tell us why it doesn’t work with the plugin? For me, that should be handled on this side. * Basically if add the feature myself, I need to do a copy-paste of this ImageMagick and change one function or two 🙂 And that would add unrelated complexity on the retina plugin side. * Plugin Author [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/) * (@tigroumeow) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-metadata-2/#post-6180480) * I noticed this: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-retina-2x?replies=1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-retina-2x?replies=1) But there is no reply. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Image Metadata’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-retina-2x/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2597316) * [Perfect Images: Regenerate Thumbnails, Image Sizes, WebP & AVIF](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-retina-2x/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-retina-2x/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-retina-2x/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-retina-2x/reviews/) ## Tags * [resize](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/resize/) * 5 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/) * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-metadata-2/#post-6180480) * Status: not a support question