Populate taglist from IPTC data

You can not use keywords as tags.

You can do two things:

Easy solution: Use the supersearch shortcode [wppa type=”supersearch”]
See: https://wppa.nl/docs-by-subject/search/super-search/

Complex solution: Add keyword 2#025 to all photo descriptions
See Advanced settings -> Maintenance -> II -> Items 7 and 8
Make sure you include description in search (Basic settings -> Search -> I -> Item 3), You may need to rebuild index on Advanced settings -> Maintenance -> I -> Item 10

Thank-you for the prompt response. I must say I feel somewhat disappointed that I camnot use IPTC keywords as tags. Is there a reason why this is something that is not included in the plugin?

I will try your suggestions and see how it goes.

Thanks
Chris

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by chrisselwyn.

I will treat this as an enhancement request.

Thank-you for considering it.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Chris

Current version ( 8.4.00.001 ) supports it.
See the changelog:

* You can now enter IPTC and EXIF keywords as tags; they will automatically be replaced by their respective values or left out when not present in the items IPTC/EXIF data.

I am the friend Chris messaged you about. I am new to WordPress as well as WPPA. Using Adobe Bridge, I’m batch updating my photos to the IPTC field named Keywords (like Title, Description, etc.) with place names & people in the picture. Confusingly, Windows Explorer calls this data Tags.

Doing it in batch lets me update dozens of photos at a time and that’s against the hi-res originals. The data is carried forward to the lo-res images I upload.

I don’t fully understand what “You can now enter IPTC and EXIF keywords as tags…” means. By IPTC keywords do you mean Title, Description, etc. and not the values I enter? And I presume when you say “tags” you refer to WPPA tags not what Windows Explorer means.

And where exactly do I enter the keywords – during upload or import?

Sorry to be so verbose but I’m trying to be clear about the limitations of my understanding at present about WP & WPPA

Jem Moore

First i hope you have the IPTC (and/or EXIF) data available.
If you have the box checked in
Photo ALbums -> Settings -> Basic settings -> General -> I -> Item 9: Enable IPTC before you uploaded, you have it.

If you have it available, look at
Photo ALbums -> Settings -> Advanced settings -> IPTC -> I.

Here you see e.g. under (IPTC) Tag: 2#005, and under Description Graphic name:

The 2#005 is what we call in wppa the IPTC keyword.

If you enter this (2#005) in the description of a photo, See
Photo Albums -> Albums -> <Any album> -> Show photo Detals (of any photo) it will show up at the frontend in the description (e.g. in a slideshow) replaced by its actual value.
You can also use a keyword for the description, in this example for 2#005 you use 2#L005 (the L stands for Label).

If you do not like the description ‘Graphic name:’ you can edit it on the IPTC settings page.

If you want it to happen in all items (if the data is not available you will see nothing, no label and no value), you can set the description for all items in Advanced settings -> New -> I -> Item 13: New photo desc, enable it in Item 12: Apply Newphoto desc (for fuiture uploads), and if you want to apply it to all existing items, run Advanced settings -> Maintenance -> II -> Item 6: Apply New Photodesc.

If you do not have the IPTC data, (if the Advanced settings -> IPTC table is empty), ask me for more instructions to recover.

See also: https://wppa.nl/docs-by-subject/iptc-and-exif-data/

Jacob, thank you very much. I’ve set up various IPTC attributes on sample pictures and on upload the data are stored and 2#025 saved as tags. Now I have the simple job of updating all my photos ??

That is simple too.

In the Album Admin, open the album settings of any album, open the tab Content.
Here you can enter tags (separated by commas (,) ) and add or apply them to all items in the album.