Automatically Rotating Images with php2Bluesky

May 9, 2026 | Comment

I have a PHP application that I use to post to my X, Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. This works well but I noticed the last time I posted an image from my iPhone that while it was fine on X and Mastodon on Bluesky the image was upside down (see above and here)!

Interestingly this only happens when posting via the Bluesky API, if you upload the same from the web interface, for example, it works fine.

Enter EXIF

When you take a picture with a modern digital camera, such as an iPhone, it embeds into that … Read the rest

Posting to WordPress Microposts with php2Micropost

April 1, 2026 | Comment

I have accounts on plenty of microblogging sites (Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky and even Threads) but they are all owned and controlled by someone else. I decided that I wanted something that I could use and manage, and a quick search came up with Michael Gbadebo‘s WordPress plugin called Microposts.

I installed this and after playing around for a while, I decided that it was just what I was looking for. However, it was quite cumbersome to make a post from a mobile device when I was out and about. What I wanted was a simple … Read the rest