Title: Search function in Gmedia?
Last modified: February 5, 2021

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# Search function in Gmedia?

 *  [hamstair_toilichte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamstair_toilichte/)
 * (@hamstair_toilichte)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-in-gmedia/)
 * Hi. This isn’t any sort of problem, as I’ve only just purchased Gmedia Pro and
   haven’t had time to explore it. I’m in the process of planning a photo gallery
   for my WordPress site using Gmedia Pro. What I’d like to provide my users is 
   a photo search facility which will search tags added to photos in WordPress, **
   and** embedded photo metadata, in particular IPTC/XMP. A user search for ‘hamster’,
   say, should pick up not just pics tagged ‘hamster’ in WP, but also those with‘
   hamster’ in photo metadata.
 * Can Gmedia Pro do this? I ask because metadata tagging is time-consuming, though
   necessary, so I’d like to spend it on embedding IPTC/XMP metadata in photos using
   software (eg IrfanView, Digikam) so that it can be extracted in platforms other
   than Gmedia. Adding tags, categories, and descriptions in Gmedia restricts the
   metadata to the single WP installation.
 * Sorry, I’m a bit of a metadata nerd 😉

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## Tags

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

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 * Last reply from: [hamstair_toilichte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamstair_toilichte/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-in-gmedia/)
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