Well it is seems to happen to all photos which I have tried and should be rotated. They are rotated when displayed in Digikam so it knows about the orientation tag OK. I'll report it on the kipi-plugins mailing list.

Is there a way to get Piwigo to rotate them once uploaded?

Stuart

I have the same problem.  Ploader 1.6.0 and 2.07c both fail to rotate images, digikam (both the 1.9.0 that comes with ubuntu 11.04 and 2.0 beta 6) fail to rotate images.

However if I use the piwigo admin web interface the photos come up correctly rotated.

Ploader was especially weird because as soon as I drag a photo in it displays a thumbnail incorrectly rotated *AND* says that it's rotating:

$ ploader
Rotate 270
Rotate 90
Rotate 90
Rotate 270
Rotate 270
Rotate 270

I do have php5-imagick installed and piwigo -> admin -> add -> settings does show a "High definition" section. 

I do have the iptc tag tweak:

  $conf['use_iptc'] = true;

  $conf['use_iptc_mapping'] = array(
  'keywords'        => '2#025',
  );

I tried setting "$conf['upload_form_automatic_rotation'] = true;" without any help.

Anyone have suggestions for fixing either ploader, digikam, or piwigo so the photos are properly rotated?

I'm open to other ways to do bulk uploads,  ideally while preserving the IPTC tags.   My goal is to tag and select which photos to publish client side, and upload (or synchronize) a subset of those photos for publishing to piwigo.   Smart folders are working quite well BTW, it's great being able to tag then client side and have the files automatically appear in one more more albums.

Ah, shotwell does work.  Unfortunately it can't see a significant fraction of my images because it (at least the one in 11.04) doesn't handle raw.

Are there any command line uploaders/synchronization methods?  Maybe something that looks for a 5 star rating, or a tag called publish or the like.  That way people could use any tool that handles IPTC and be able to upload/synchronize whichever fraction of their photo collection to piwigo.

Ah, interesting.   I don't know PHP at all, but I'm pretty familiar with perl.  If you add pwg.images.addSimple support I can add the support for synchronization off all files with a given IPTC tag.

Rats, looks like iptc tags are incompatible with raw files, hrm.