how iOS rotation works

these days i start to learn iOS rotation, in the whole process, i am quite confused, today through some experiments, i thought i start to understand something.

first let me says something interesting to me, when i use WeChat, i find that the orientation of the app is often portrait, but when i go to details of  a subject in Fenng's official account, and i rotate the device, then the view rotate too. here is the two snapshot:

here my question is how to control view's orientation?? how to let most views portrait only but a special one???

in order to understand the theory behind  the scene. i wrote some test code, the test code is atgithub, you can download them from there. you can analysis the code yourself, here is some hint:

1. in iOS 6 when device rotates, it only ask the root controller whether it should rotate and what orientations it supports
2. there is two places defines the orientations the app supports, info.plist or application delegate and view controller
3. when a device rotates, the app receives  two notifications.