Wishlist/questions

  • Bike

    (@bike)


    11 years ago

    Hi there, great plugin, hope it will be part of core soon.

    Some questions/wishlist:

    1 – Did you already make it possible to display images that are in multiple categories? Note that there should be two separate options: Images that are in EITHER CatA or CatB vs images that are in BOTH CatA and CatB.

    2 – Is this plugin integrated with any slider/gallery display plugin? Will be great to get an on-the-fly slider showing images form the selected categories.

    3 – I did not see it, but can you confirm that the plugin/shortcode can limit the number of images displayed? I.e, number=x vs number=all. Also, when number is X (and X < all), there should be an option to randomize, i.e. refreshing the page should give a different set of images.

    4 – Where do the displayed images link to? Can it be connected to a lightbox (large version), a custom URL or the attachment page?

    5 – I saw several threads that were marked as resolved while they appeared no to be. Is there a new version coming out soon that has all resolved issues integrated?

    Many thanks!

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-categories-2/

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  • Plugin Author Eddie Moya

    (@eddiemoya)

    11 years ago

    I hope I answer your levels in the right way. I dont now if your asking from the perspective of a developer or a user. I will try to walk that fine line in my explanation. Let me know if

    1. The plugin does allow multiple taxonomies to be applied to media. The beauty of the way this plugin works is that it categorizes media the same way wordpress naturally categorizes posts. So it leaves it open for developers to use that however they like. However I do not believe the [gallery] shortcode allows for more than one taxonomy at a time to be queried. Its something that I intended on adding but did not have time to include in the last release. However that limitation only exists with the [gallery] shortcode.

    2. The plugin is not explicitly integrated with any other plugins. However it is built in such a way that it should not interfere with any other plugins as long as they tinker with the built-in [gallery] shortcode – if they do there is a potential for conflicting behavior. Any gallery template should work just fine with this shortcode – again, assuming it does not modify the [gallery] shortcode.

    3. The plugin does nothing regarding limits either way. WordPress allows queries to be limited, so yes queries for categorized can be limited. Again, that functionality does not include an option to do this. However anyone with a theme or widget pulling up categorized images will have no problem limiting or paginating those results.

    4. My plugin does nothing with regard to the links or the templates that generate the galleries – it just groups the images. The whole point is that its as integrated as possible with the built-in existing gallery functionality. If your theme has a gallery template that uses lightbox or grabs the images link – all that should work just fine, just like the normal built in gallery.

    5. I mark threads as resolved if they are suggestions and not bugfixes, because I may or may not actually integrate the suggestion – I should probably mark those as “not a support question” but those dont give me the visual indicator when browsing the thread. I’ve got a running backlog of suggestions and known issues. I need to dump them into GitHub issues which is where I maintain this, and all my plugins. I also mark issues as resolved if they aren’t actually caused by my plugin – so for example, limitation actually caused by WordPress core.

    I do have a small bit of work done for the next version but it is no where near ready – I have to make time to finish it up. I will probably have to complete it soon, WordPress 3.6 looms closer.

    I hope this helps.

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