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You are the best, seriously. This looks even more awesome now.

I’ve even set up a second library!

And let me know if you end up figuring out how to let link submitters tag multiple categories, because that would be super cool. It would help with collaborative libraries, as users could tag multiple things and the owner (me, lol) wouldn’t have to do as much additional legwork.

Also, after using the library for a few days, I have a possible idea for you, let me know what you think. It goes back to question 1 I originally had about duplicate results.

The search function currently searches both categories AND keywords. Would it be possible to perhaps split out the keyword search part? That way it would only spit out the results with one result. Not sure if my logic is sound here or not, haha.

Anyways, thanks again.

Thank YOU for your help.

The switching is set to AJAX. The button is still that loader.gif, I was too chicken to change any source code hahaha.

I’m sure there is some simple workaround that I haven’t thought through yet. My goal is to keep the links page as clean as possible… ideally I would like to have no links showing until someone uses either the dropdown menu or search, but it seems I have to keep a minimum of 1 category showing to get things working.

On removing the Go button, I found this helpful answer from another poster
https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/remove-go-button-from-ajax-switching-method

Haven’t tried it yet though.

So I’m just wondering about multiple tags for submitters now.

Interesting quirk… if you search for something, and no results are found, the dropdown menu disappears. I presume because there is no library showing for it to find.

Oh, also is it possible to allow submitters to choose multiple categories? Or can they only pick from the drop down?

Don’t worry folks, I am going try and figure this out elsewhere. Thanks!

Phew, I finally found the relevant code!

David, this is an amazing plugin and I’m going to make a donation, but I humbly request that you make a Dummies Guide, or at least put the following pieces of code right up front in the FAQ or something.

<h3>The Cloud</h3>
Click on a term to populate the gallery below.

[mla_tag_cloud taxonomy=attachment_category number=0 mla_link_href="{+page_url+}?term_slug={+slug+}"]

<h3>The Gallery</h3>

[mla_gallery attachment_category="{+template:({+request:term_slug+}|a-bad-term)+}" mla_nolink_text="Nothing to show."]

And the search form, which I edited a bit, but you can put a standard one somewhere.

<form id="mla-search-form" action="." method="post"><input id="mla-search-box" name="search-string" type="text" value="" />
<input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="GO" /></form>

[mla_gallery post_mime_type=all post_parent=all s="{+template:({+request:search-string+}|a-bad-term)+}" mla_nolink_text="No pages to show." posts_per_page=12 mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next" mla_link_href="{+page_url+}?search-string={+request:search-string+}"]

[mla_gallery post_mime_type=all post_parent=all s="{+template:({+request:search-string+}|a-bad-term)+}" mla_nolink_text="Enter a search value above to display gallery." posts_per_page=12]

You’ll save both your users and yourself a TON of time if these two pieces are somewhere everybody can see them.

I put both these onto my site and they did what I was looking for. I can’t put the tag cloud in my sidebar but that’s not a huge deal.

Then I installed Responsive Lightbox and it worked perfectly with the above code, such that I literally didn’t have to do anything to have cool lightbox effects for the gallery output! So sweet.

So basically I have one final question:

How do I change the color of my tags in my tag cloud? I think it involves style markups but if you could show me an example that’d be great.

Cheers!

Hi David, thanks for the post. I posted this just after you….
I will read through your recommended links right away!

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Okay… I tried to copy one of your old posts and match the header/footer stuff to the sparkling version of “search results”.

<?php
/**
 * The template used to display Attachment Tag Archive pages
 *
 * @package sparkling
 */

get_header(); ?>

		<section id="primary" class="content-area">
			<main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">

				<header class="page-header">
					<h1 class="page-title"><?php printf( __( 'Attachment Tag Archives: %s', 'sparkling' ), '<span>' . $_REQUEST['attachment_tag'] . '</span>' );
					?></h1>
				</header><!-- .page-header -->

				<?php /* Start the Loop */?>
				<?php $tag = $_REQUEST['attachment_tag']; echo do_shortcode("[mla_gallery attachment_tag={$tag}]"); ?>

				<?php sparkling_paging_nav(); ?>

		<?php else : ?>

			<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'none' ); ?>

		<?php endif; ?>

		</main><!-- #main -->
		</section><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thought that would do the trick but no dice.