Creating Wordpress Tags from Photo Keywords - A Janky Plugin
In which we create Wordpress tags from IPTC keywords on images
As you probably know, 75CentralPhotography has been going strong with at least 1 photo shared every day since August 2007. Every photo is processed and catalogged in Lightroom Classic, part of which the process includes extensive tagging of the photos, including location, subject, category and equipment, among others.
Until now, when a new photo was posted to the site, we'd meticulously enter a subset of the photo's keywords on each post as Wordpress tags—a time-consuming, error-prone methodology that was one of our least-favourite parts of sharing photos.
To make this easier, I built a Wordpress plugin (because 75CentralPhotography.com is a Wordpress site) that harvests the IPTC keywords from the first photo on the post when a post is save and creates tags from these keywords, saving a lot of manual work in the process.
The plugin allows the user to define keywords to block (because there are keywords you might add to a photo in Lightroom Classic that aren't relevant to your site (perhaps SEO-related):
As well as subsituting keywords with different verbiage:
You can download the plugin from the Github repository here and install by following the instructions to install via a zip file here. If you have any issues or suggestions, please create a Github issue here and I may or may not address it. Otherwise, feel free to fork the repository and let me know if you make it better.
