Title: IPTC tagging
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# IPTC tagging

 *  Resolved [jblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jblue/)
 * (@jblue)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/iptc-tagging/)
 * We have many thousands of photos to upload. I know we can apply default tags 
   to an album, but we need an easy way to batch tag groups of photos within an 
   album. My coworker has batched a bunch in Lightroom, and the database does import
   that as IPTC data, but it doesn’t appear in the album admin for each photo, and
   the search widget will not search these tags. Is there a way to get the search
   to pick up the IPTC data? It’s just too much to have to go in and tag each photo
   individually.
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 *  Plugin Author [Jacob N. Breetvelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opajaap/)
 * (@opajaap)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/iptc-tagging/#post-3836816)
 * Yes, put the iptc labels in the photo description field. Then they will be found
   by the search widget.
 * Example:
 * Enter as text in the photo description field:
 * E#0110 to get the exif camera model,
    2#080 iptc photographer, 2#120 iptc caption.
 * You can find the IPTC labels in Table X of the Photo Albums -> Settings admin
   page.
 * You can bulk input it when you enter the codesequence and optionam extra text
   in Table IX-B4: New photo description, Check Table IX-B3 so it gets applied for
   new photos, and then run ‘Apply new photo desc’ on the album admin page ( for
   each album ) once.
 *  Thread Starter [jblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jblue/)
 * (@jblue)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/iptc-tagging/#post-3836825)
 * ok, thank you! we will try this today and see if it works for us.

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## Tags

 * [iptc](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/iptc/)
 * [tagging](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tagging/)

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 * Last reply from: [jblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jblue/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/iptc-tagging/#post-3836825)
 * Status: resolved