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I've never really been comfortable with the on-board image editor in WordPress, and here's a good example of why:

I'm just setting up a vanilla WP installation and am using the TwentyTen theme. I've uploaded an image, rotated it 90 degrees (using the Edit Image feature), saved it and have used it as my Featured Image.

The image that appears in my header and featured image area is still the original, rotated version.

When I go back to the Gallery for this page, by clicking on the Featured Image in the Edit Posts section, the image is rotated correctly. But back on the Edit Posts section, or on the actual site the image is not rotated.

I've hit "Save all changes" a dozen times, I've switched sizes a few times, and I'm using "Apply changes to: All image sizes" in the Edit box. I'm running out of options.

Can someone walk me through the correct process to upload, rotate, and set a featured image?

thanks!

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AFAIK, the featured image ignores all on-site edits. It just takes your base image, and applies crop/resize based on your add_image_size defs.

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Wow, well if that's the case, that's totally BOGUS! haha. I wonder why that is? Maybe this should be a feature / bug request in WP... – Tom Auger Mar 25 '11 at 13:30
Well, when the feature was added back in 2.8 I believe, it was cool. I had hoped it was perhaps a case of getting basic functionality in place, and expanding on the idea in future releases. It was definitely a cool addition. I had hoped it would mature some, by letting you use the editing capabilities. I don't keep up on the dev chats too much to know if it's anything being planned. It would be a nice enhancement for sure. – Rev. Voodoo Mar 25 '11 at 13:51
Indeed. Thanks for the info. – Tom Auger Apr 5 '11 at 16:30
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