IPTC Field Mapping to Lightroom

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  • Plugin Author David Lingren

    (@dglingren)

    Thanks for the positive feedback and for your question. Thanks as well for posting the links to your example and particularly the shot of the mapping rules you are using. I suspect your problem is similar to that raised a short while ago in this topic:

    Rebel Caption Field

    The first thing to check is the “Existing Text” setting in the right-most column of the rule. The default value is “Keep” which will prevent the rule from overwriting any content already in place. Since WordPress 4.3 always fills in the Caption (as well as the Description) field, you must change this value to “Replace” for your rule to have any effect.

    I share your frustration at the messy nature of metadata handling. You might find some additional information in this earlier topic:

    List of Usable IPTC Fields

    My own approach was simply to create a test image that filled in all the meta data fields with a descriptive value and then dumping the resulting IPTC and EXIF fields to derive the mapping by example.

    I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you have any problems or further questions about mapping your meta data with MLA. If you can post a link to one or more of your images I can analyze them and be more specific. Thanks for your interest in the plugin.

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