Labrador launches auto-recognition of famous people in photos, and more.
Hi, Labrador CMS users! Four improvements we wanted to mention in Labrador this month. All opt-in, switched on yourself — nothing changes in your workflow until you choose it.
Executive summary:
Labrador can identify famous people in your photos and tag them automatically
Readers can open any photo in a fullscreen carousel
Readers can mark your site as a preferred Google source
Author pages can show a job title
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Labrador can now name famous people in your photos
When turned on, Labrador AI checks faces in a photo against a public database of well-known figures — Wikipedia and IMDB-level fame — and suggests a name, plus who's left, right or in the middle if there's more than one. It only names someone when confident enough, and only people in that database — a face well known locally may not be one it knows. Just as with all of our AI features, nothing publishes without your review. Feature is experimental, so make sure you have a human in the loop that reads the suggestions.
Editor action: Enable Celebrity recognition in Admin → AI Setting → Image metadata (all the way at the bottom).
Journalist tip: Good on group shots — it sorts who's who by position, ready for the caption.
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Readers can now open any photo in a fullscreen carousel
Your article pages stay as they are until you turn this on. Turned on, a reader who clicks a freestanding image in an article sees every image in that article in a fullscreen carousel, with arrows, keyboard and swipe navigation and captions carried over. Works site-wide or per article, in a dark or light layout.
Editor action: Check the image carousel option in Admin → Gallery settings.
Journalist tip: When turned on, readers can flip through without leaving the page.
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Readers can now mark your site as a preferred Google source
Nothing changes in your existing share buttons until you add this one. Turned on, readers get a button that marks your title as a preferred source in Google Search — Google then shows your content with a "preferred" badge in Top Stories and AI Overviews for those readers.
Site administrators can enable "Google preferred source" in Admin → Article settings → Social media sharing.
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Author pages can now show a job title
Existing author pages are unchanged until you turn this on. Turned on, it shows in the author box and in that page's search data for every author page on your site, not just one.
Editor action: Open the Author Box and enable a job title.
Journalist tip: Worth doing once for your own byline — it's public the moment you save it.
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THIS MONTH'S TIP
Fix a photo's alt text once, everywhere it's reused Labrador AI already writes alt text, a caption and tags the moment you upload an image — click the wand icon to generate or refresh them. When you need to correct that text later, look for the new Edit alt text button on the image wherever it appears — in any article, gallery or front page. Click it, fix the text in the Caption Editor once, and every other place reusing that same photo updates with it. No more re-editing a wire photo's alt text in every article it turns up in.
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What's the one thing in your workflow that still costs you time every day? Reply and tell me — it comes to me.
Jan Thoresen,
CEO, Labrador CMS