Getting Started
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Hi, Sorry of this is an irritating newbie question but can someone give me a quick idiots guide to getting started with this plugin (it’s all up and running I’m just not sure how to start creating new folders and moving things)?
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Hello @andybs,
You can’t create real folders with this plugin. But you can create categories like you can do it for posts.
After activating go to the Media Settings -> Taxonomies menu and start using existed taxonomies or creating new ones. For better understanding of what the taxonomies are you can read this article http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Taxonomies
In a nutshell, taxonomy is some kind of category. For example you have an art library with a lot of art works of different genres, and you don’t like to categorize them just by “category”, you wish to call that categories “genres”. Also you need sort images by authors. In this case you need to create 2 new taxonomies: Genres and Authors.
Next go to the Media menu. Its submenu will look something like this:
* Library
* Add new
* Genres
* AuthorsThere may be other taxonomies if you assigned them on the Media Settings -> Taxonomies page. If you don’t need them you have to go back and just uncheck the checkbox before unwanted taxonomy.
Now add your genres and authors and assign images to appropriate category in the Media Popup or on single image admin page.
Please also take a look at screenshots. First screen – creating taxonomy, 3rd – adding new taxonomy terms (genres and authors in our case), 4th – editing image on single image admin page, 8th – editing image on Media Popup.
Hope this helps.
Nadia
Hi Nadia
Thanks so much for this, very helpful, very informative and if I could just get EML to work with the Heuman theme I would be up and running, sadly they seem to dislike each other and I have had to disable EML as it disabled some of the styling options (Heuman is otherwise actually pretty good for a free theme).
Pity as EML looks extremely useful…
Hi @andybs,
EML doesn’t affect styling in any way. It works only with WordPress admin and provides possibility to assign/sort images by categories. I believe the issue is caused by something other.
Nadia
Hi Nadia
Fair enough, I have no programming knowledge so bow to your greater understanding, all I know is that styling is all there and working when EML is disabled and big chunks disappear the minute I enable it, perhaps it’s a mixture of things, just thought you might like to know there’s a possible problem
Andy
Hi Andy,
Is this happening in admin or front-end of your website? Can you please post a screenshot of one of those disappeared chunks? Something like (before/after). Thanks
Nadia
Hi Nadia
Sure no problem (it’s in Admin, the stying part of the Heuman theme)
Before loading the EML plugin it looks like…
http://totalmusiconline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/admin1.jpg
and after loading and activating EML it does this…
http://totalmusiconline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/admin2.jpg
Andy
Andy
Thank you.
I just installed the theme and checked it with and without EML on WordPress 3.9.2. It works equally well. I would be grateful if you also can deactivate all other plugins and check if the theme works with EML in this case. Thanks!
Also please let me know if you can see some kind of error message in browser’s developer tool window (F12).
Nadia
Hi Nadia
Well I deactivated all the plugins that didn’t actually come with the theme (I’d only added a couple) and I still have the problem so no idea what is going wrong…
I did try the f12 tool but in all honesty I have no idea what the hell I’m looking for, although there were no glaring error messages that I could see
Sorry I couldn’t be more help
Hi Andy,
Thanks for your efforts! I am afraid that I am not able to reproduce this issue. I suspect it is some jQuery conflict but have no clue why it happens to your website. If you want me to try to fix the issue you can send me access to your website to wordpressuxsolutions [at] gmail [dot] com
Nadia
Hi Nadia
Thanks for the offer, I’ll send an email right now
Andy
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