Rotated Photos In Many Postings-Is There A Solution?

When your phone takes a picture, it stores a bunch of data as part of the image file. This data can include the date and time, your location, and your phone's orientation so it knows whether the picture was taken in portrait or landscape mode. Your phone uses this orientation data to show the image rotated as it was originally taken. This data is not used on most websites (perhaps unless part of an image editing tool) so pictures are displayed without considering the rotation and appear sideways or upside down.

Using the image optimizer here helps resolve that problem by letting you size, crop and rotate the image before posting. It's possible that there are code snippets to allow rotation of each image right here on the page (after they've been resized and uploaded in the first place), but in the meantime, we have to rely on people previewing and editing their own images when they post.

Edit to add: I found such a snippet to rotate an image in-place, but whether it would work on this site, I can't say.

It's in the upper-left corner of the image you're editing. But you have to mouse-over the image to see the buttons (which might be contributing to the problem, but some people aren't cropping either).