Title: Wrong promises
Last modified: September 3, 2016

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# Wrong promises

 *  [samaralife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samaralife/)
 * (@samaralife)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-promises/)
 * This plugin promises a lot but doesn’t work. It only adds all those promised 
   fields in your medialibrary, but they are BLANK for you to manually fill in on
   a one pic at a time basis.
 * I checked my images in WP Media library. They all have keywords (added manually
   before uploading) and camera/basic EXIF included. None of these are displayed
   with the plugin in action. So, the plugin doesn’t actually “extract” any info
   as the authors states in the plugin description. The plugin simply adds the functionality
   for you to fill in everything, not in bulk.
 * I tried it with a new upload. The only info the plugin extracted was the name
   of the camera. No keywords were extracted!
 * Plus the plugin obviously lacks any Settings page, so you are stuck with all 
   the fields there, even the ones you don’t actually need.
 * Huge disappointment! Wrong description that misleads people!
 * PS: _[ link redacted, please do not post links in reviews ]_ latest WP version

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 *  Plugin Author [padams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/padams/)
 * (@padams)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-promises/#post-7916061)
 * The plugin does work. It creates image taxonomies which are not part of a standard
   WordPress install and extracts the IPTC and XMP meta data of _newly uploaded 
   files_ and then populates those taxonomies.
 * The meta data must be embedded in the files via a DAM like Adobe Lightroom. The
   plugin does not purport to extract keyword meta data from anywhere else except
   files.
 * Next time, before you write a rant like this please reach out directly and give
   us a chance to clarify things or help you. If you’d like to send me the file 
   that you think should be working I would be happy to test it for you.
 *  Thread Starter [samaralife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samaralife/)
 * (@samaralife)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-promises/#post-7916065)
 * The description says that plugin extracts metadata including keywords. It doesn’t.
   I specifically uploaded a new file after installing and activating the plugin.
   The keywords are written simply through the file’s properties feature in Windows
   Explorer. The only info that the plugin extracted was camera make and model. 
   Neither keywords, nor author, not aperture/shutterspeed/focusing distance info
   showed up in the corresponding fields.
 *  Plugin Author [padams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/padams/)
 * (@padams)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-promises/#post-7916070)
 * Like I said, this plugin does work. I’m not sure why your file does not. Could
   be the way that windows explorer embeds meta data. If you want to send me a file
   I can test it. Otherwise use a DAM to add the meta data to the file and you should
   see it working.

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