Recent post gallery?

Thanks for your question. I am traveling for a few days and away from my development/test system. I will investigate this issue as soon as I can and post an update here when I have progress to report.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Thanks for your patience in awaiting a response!

I am happy to report that the current MLA version will support your application. You can use something like this:

[mla_gallery category=general post_type=post post_status=publish post_mime_type=all post_parent=all orderby="date DESC" numberposts=6]

The orderby="date DESC" numberposts=6 portion of the shortcode gives you the “recent posts”. You can use any data selection parameter you like in place of category=general. Look at the “Category Parameters” section of the Settings/Media Library Assistant Documentation tab for more options. The post_mime_type=all post_parent=all parameters override default settings designed for image galleries.

The post_type=post post_status=publish parameters are the key. You can find more information about them in the “Post Type, Post Status” section of the Documentation tab.

You might want to add mla_caption="{+title+}" to replace the post excerpt with the post title as the caption for each gallery item.

I hope that gets you started on a display that works for your application. I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you have any problems or further questions regarding the above suggestions. Thanks again for your patience and your interest in the plugin.

Thanks for your update with the good news and the pagination request. Adding pagination is simple; add a second shortcode to the page with an mla_output parameter:

[mla_gallery category=general post_type=post post_status=publish post_mime_type=all post_parent=all orderby="date DESC" mla_caption="{+title+}" numberposts=3]

[mla_gallery category=general post_type=post post_status=publish post_mime_type=all post_parent=all orderby="date DESC" mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next" numberposts=3]

The mla_output parameter replaces the mla_caption parameter (pagination controls have no caption). The numberposts (or posts_per_page) parameter divides the gallery into pages. Make sure you have exactly the same data selection and sort parameters in both shortcodes.

There are several different types of pagination controls for you to use. Have a look through the “Support for Alternative Gallery Output, e.g., Pagination” section of the Settings/Media Library Assistant Documentation tab for more details and examples.

Thanks for the kind words and for the link to your page.

You wrote “Is there any way to decrease the white space between pagination and gallery?” This depends on your markup and on the styles your theme uses. I had some luck on my system by putting both shortcodes on one line, i.e.:

[mla_gallery category=general post_type=post post_status=publish post_mime_type=all post_parent=all orderby="date DESC" mla_caption="{+title+}" numberposts=3][mla_gallery category=general post_type=post post_status=publish post_mime_type=all post_parent=all orderby="date DESC" mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next" numberposts=3]

Here’s a CSS trick that works on my system:

[mla_gallery category=general post_type=post post_status=publish post_mime_type=all post_parent=all orderby="date DESC" mla_caption="{+title+}" numberposts=3]
<p style="position: relative; top: -20px">[mla_gallery category=general post_type=post post_status=publish post_mime_type=all post_parent=all orderby="date DESC" mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next" numberposts=3]</p>

You could also try putting the pagination above the gallery.

You asked “I don’t suppose there is a way to do gallery page changes without a page refresh?” I regret that there is no way I know of in the current MLA version to accomplish that, and the work required to do it in a general way is more than I can take on at this time.

Thanks again for an interesting question and for working with me to refine it. Good luck with your application.