Ellsinore

Hi, David — Last update for the night. 🙂

I’ve messed up a setting somewhere. I tried to generate a new thumbnail and did get the notification that the thumbnail was generated, but still the [X] rather than an image. I’m kind of lost at this point. It *did* work and now it’s not.

Thanks!

Kris

Hi, David!

I did kind of make a mess of that, didn’t I? 🙂

Yes, I do still have the missing thumbnails and re-running the generation process doesn’t fix it. It worked on the newer ones, but not the older ones for some reason.

I’m having to re-upload the missing-thumbnail PDFs anyway. So if you want to take a peek and see if you know what’s up, that would be great. If you don’t get a chance, no worries! 🙂

Here’s the page: http://cousin-collector.com/blog/?page_id=690

And here’s one of the items: http://cousin-collector.com/blog/?attachment_id=940

Thanks!

Kris

Hi, David!

The information you provided was very helpful, and is working great. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to figure out how to get the tags and categories to be links, but that’s an issue with me and my template and not with MLA. So I’m marking this topic resolved!

Thanks for the help! 🙂

Kris

Hi, David!

I probably over-complicated things, but I used two methods to accomplish my goal.

Actually, the first problem just came up recently: No Posts for Archive Pages Att. Tags & Att. Categories. The tag and category links for the media attachments didn’t work, so I created archive.php to process and display the items thus:

<?php 
if (strpos($url, 'tag') !== false) {
if ( class_exists( 'MLAShortcodes' ) ):
	echo do_shortcode('[mla_gallery post_tag="' . $page_tag . ',public" tax_operator=AND post_parent=all orderby=title post_mime_type=application/pdf,image/jpeg columns=0 mla_style=theme mla_caption="{+template:<strong><a class=\'title-link\' href=\'{+pagelink_url+}\'>{+caption+}</a></strong><br />{+description+}<br /><strong>Uploaded:</strong>   {+date,date(\'j F Y\')+} <strong>Modified:</strong> {+modified,date(\'j F Y\')+} \\({+file_size,kbmb(m)+}\\)+}"]');
endif; 

}
if (strpos($url, 'cat') !== false) {
if ( class_exists( 'MLAShortcodes' ) ):
	echo do_shortcode('[mla_gallery category="' . $cat_slug . '" post_tag=public tax_relation=AND post_parent=all orderby=title post_mime_type=application/pdf,image/jpeg columns=0 mla_style=theme mla_caption="{+template:<strong><a class=\'title-link\' href=\'{+pagelink_url+}\'>{+caption+}</a></strong><br />{+description+}<br /><strong>Uploaded:</strong>   {+date,date(\'j F Y\')+} <strong>Modified:</strong> {+modified,date(\'j F Y\')+} \\({+file_size,kbmb(m)+}\\)+}"]');
endif; 
}
?>

The archive.php page result for clicking on a tag.

The archive.php page result for clicking on a category.

When I did the archive.php page, I couldn’t figure out then, either, how to include the “post kicker” in my code, so it’s not there for the media.

The Media Library link is a WP page with MLA code:

[mla_gallery category=media-library post_tag=public post_parent=all orderby=title post_mime_type=application/pdf,image/jpeg columns=0 link=file mla_style=theme mla_caption="{+template:<strong><a class='title-link' href='{+pagelink_url+}'>{+caption+}</a></strong><br />{+description+}<br /><strong>Uploaded:</strong> {+date,date('j F Y')+} <strong>Modified:</strong> {+modified,date('j F Y')+} \\({+file_size,kbmb( 1024 , ' KB', ' MB', 1 )+}\\)+}"]

I believe you could use the MLA Custom Markup Template features to eliminate the need for custom PHP code and raw HTML. Have you investigated that approach for your application?

No, I haven’t! But it looks like I should! It would be great if it could simplify the process. 🙂

Thanks!

Kris

Hi, David!

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

You may have seen this earlier topic when you were digging around:

Displaying title, description and attachment category

That doesn’t look familiar, but it does give me an idea that I could do what I’m wanting by using CSS. I’ll play with that a bit!

That topic used the mla_caption parameter to enhance the caption. Your current “Media Library” page displays the document Title as a hyperlink, followed by “Credit:”, “Source:” “Uploaded:” and “Modified:” to the right of each document thumbnail. Are you using a custom template to arrange the display? How are you adding “Credit:”, etc. to the entries?

I’m actually using the IPTC metadata for the photos to populate those fields when the file is uploaded — thanks to your help! 😉

It looks like adding the “post kicker” simply means adding a few more fields to the information already there. Is that right? The only complication I can see is that you might want the “Tags:” and “Category:” terms to be active links to their respective archive pages. Is that the issue?

The keywords (tags) and categories are already part of the IPTC I’m using, so the info is already there. Figuring out how to link it shouldn’t be a problem if I go with the CSS from the post you found for me.

I probably should have included this link in my original post:

http://cousin-collector.com/blog/?tag=parman-surname

This is the tag page for the “Parman Surname” tag on the photo and recent blog post about it. The first item is, of course, the information about the media item — the photo. The second item — which I see now is hard to distinguish and I should probably throw a horizontal rule in there — is the blog post item, which has the same tag.

The “post kicker” is the information with the grey background. Ideally, I’d like that information to appear on the Media Library page (http://cousin-collector.com/blog/?page_id=690) under each item, and eliminate the separate link to the attachment page to access those tags and categories.

The Media Library page is all MLA code in the page, so I’m fairly confident I can use CSS there. The tag and category pages, though, I created a new PHP page for those and I had some difficulty adding more than the most rudimentary HTML to the MLA code for that, so I’m not sure I’ll be able to pull that off. 🙂

I’ll probably get some time to play with this over the weekend! Thank you! 🙂

Kris

Hi, David!

It would be straightforward to write some PHP code to hook the mapping rules and perform this function. Would that be an acceptable solution?

If I switched the attachments to “Att.” Categories and Tags, this wouldn’t be necessary?

Kris