Photo albums -> Settings admin page check Table IX-B3 and type the text in Table IX-B4. There is already an example. This ensures the description is added to new uploads/imports.
When done, goto the Album admin -> Edit album information and click the Apply new photo desc link to set it to all photos in the album.
So, the only things to do is: make/modify the content, turn it on and apply it on every album you have alreadey.
Is’nt it beautifull?
Recuperate searches for the files in ../uploads/wppa/ This fails when they have been resized ( resizing in php will loose iptc and exif data ). ( It must be changed to use the sources if any, see Table IX-H, but if you have the sources, you can Remake all, this will also fix it. ).
You can Import from your depot with the update switch checked. (Need ftp the originals to your depot). It will find the existing photos that must be updated, and then save the exif and iptc during that action.
Yes it is a beautiful thing 🙂
Regarding recuperate I’m not really following what you say. My set up is I have all photos in the following path and this is specified in IX-H2:
/home/sites/leerigby.net/public_html/wp-content/uploads/gallery/uploads. Within that location are mutliple folders – one for each album and in those folders are the jpegs.
I use smartFTP to monitor my local hard drive and FTP them to that location. Then I use the import files function to point a gallery at a folder so the gallery grabs the new photos.
So if I update all my ITPC data in lightroom and then FTP them back to the web server what buttons would I press in WPPA to update the stored ITPC data?
Thanks for such a prompt reply earlier too.
Btw I don’t resize any photos on import.
If you FTP, put them in ../wp-content/wppa-depot/admin/ ( if you are admin ) and use the photo albums->import admin screen. The place you put them before ( IX-H2 ) is the place where wppa puts the sourfiles if you want that. Organized by album. Try IX-H1a.
Ok, I’ve got it working nicely now. I just needed to select the ‘update’ switch when importing as you said earlier.
