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I’m lazy. I try to automate routine repetitive tasks. For photo blogging, one task that I performed repeated was export images to upload to WordPress. My workflow used to be, export sized image to disk, upload the image to WordPress, optimize the image with a WordPress plugin, and then edit the image caption for use later in a post. It was tedious.

A few years ago I simplified my workflow with a combination of Jeffrey Friedl’s export filter, and presets, Automattic’s WordPress and Adobe Lightroom plugins. This post is a combination of two posts, Export directly from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress and Set WordPress Image Caption with Jeffrey Friedl’s Metadata Wrangler Export Filter with the addition of information about the use of JPEG mini Pro. You can also consider this an update of the Export directly from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress that includes all the information from Set WordPress Image Caption with Jeffrey Friedl’s Metadata Wrangler Export Filter that includes information about how I use JPEG mini Pro to optimize images.

Requirements

To make this work, you’ll need Adobe Lightroom Classic CC, Automattic’ WordPress plugin, Jeffrey Friedl’s “Metadata Wrangler” Export Filter, and JPEGmini Pro Suite. The requirements assume you’re running macOS Mojave. I don’t use Windows. For me, Linux is a server OS. I also assume that all the required software is installed already including Jeffrey Friedl’s filters and presets, JPEGmini Pro Suite, Adobe Lightroom. Jeffrey Friedl has excellent instructions on how to install and use his “Metadata Wrangler” Export Filter on his website. You’ll need WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress with Jetpack installed.

Configuration

Setup for the JPEGmini Pro plugin is complete once it’s installed. There are no settings. Setup and configuration for Automattic’s WordPress plugin can be found on my earlier post. JetPack is a requirement for this to work. I don’t think it’s necessary to repeat all the steps here. Setup and configuration for “Metadata Wrangler” Export Filter are the same as in my earlier post on the topic.

Metadata Wrangler

From the export preset window, add the JPEGmini and Meta Wrangler post-process actions to the export preset.

The export template that I am currently using is:

{Title?{Title} —} {CameraName?{CameraName }} {CameraMake?+ {CameraMake}} {Lens?{Lens}}  — ({FocalLengthMM? {FocalLengthMM}}, {Aperture?{Aperture}}, {ISO?ISO{ISO}})

I set the title of the image in Adobe Lightroom before I export the image. Upon export, the template set the image caption by appending the title information along with image specific information.

Example.

Upper Buttermilk Falls along the Gorge Trail, Ithaca, New York — FujiFilm X-T2 + Fujifilm XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR — (16 mm, f/16, ISO200)

Other notes

While the specific setup I use if for WordPress if I used Jekyll or Hugo or some other static site generator, my image file export to disk workflow would work well for that purpose. It’s similar to the preset above, except the images are export to disk. In fact, exporting images from my Adobe Lightroom catalogue to disk, to WordPress, to Instagram, to email etc. is all done with variations of this export preset. The only thing that changes is the export destination.

Summary

I name, size, caption, optimize, and export my image files directly to WordPress using this Lightroom export preset. It’s one step – right-click, then select the export preset.

Terhune Orchards, Family, Tractor

Photos for Mac isn’t a long term photo library option – Colin Devroe by an author (cdevroe.com)

If you want to use iCloud Photo Library to sync your photos between devices, and even use it as a way to have a full backup of your photos, I suppose you can. However, after doing that for a few years and then wanting to move away from it – I would not recommend Photos on Mac or iCloud Photo Library as a long term photo library solution.

I’ve been advising friends and family about this for years. I switched from iPhoto (what Photos used to be) to Adobe Lightroom several years ago. The Adobe Lightroom CC mobile app syncs my iPhone photos (over cellular or Wi-Fi) via Adobe’s Creative Cloud back to the Adobe Lightroom CC app. My backup software, CrashPlan, takes care of the rest.

I know some people will be bothered by Adobe’s and CrashPlan subscription but … isn’t iCloud a subscription service?

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Jeffrey Friedl is a software developer and photographer based in Japan. For years he has been scratching his own itch and creating plugins for Adobe Lightroom that make using and exporting images from Lightroom easier. He makes these plugins available for a nominal fee — whatever you want to pay. I’ve used many of his plugins for years.

Need to export images to Tumblr or Twitter or Facebook? Need to control what metadata is/isn’t included during any export? Need to inject Creative-Commons license data into exported images? Jeffrey has written plugins to do each of those things. And some of the export plugins can be combined with other export plug-ins. Which is what prompted this blog post.

Some time ago I [started using the Automattic’s WordPress.com export plugin to export directly from Adobe Lightroom to my Jetpack-powered WordPress.org website. This plugin-in saves me time.

One of Jeffrey’s plugins is the Metadata Wrangler Export Plugin. This “export filter” plugin for Lightroom allows me to strip or modify selected metadata components from images as they are exported.

I just learnt a trick for adding EXIF data to the caption of the images I post to this website and also to Instagram by combining the two plugins.

I use the Metadata Wrangler Export Plugin as a post-process action to overwrite the caption metadata field with image data from my Lightroom catalogue before it is exported to WordPress.

Here’s the information inserted into the caption.

{Title?<p>{Title}</p>—}{Caption?<p>{Caption}</p>—}

<p>{CameraName?{CameraName}} {Lens?+ {Lens}} {FocalLengthMM?@ {FocalLengthMM}}, {Aperture?{Aperture}} {ShutterSpeed? at {ShutterSpeed}}, {ISO? ISO {ISO}}</p>

{RightsUsageTerms?<p>{RightsUsageTerms}</p>}

These preset template tokens inserts the image capture information such as camera make and model, and image EXIF data.

On my WordPress website, images with a caption display will display capture information.