404 for attachment_category pages

  • Resolved kalico

    (@kalico)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hi David,

    I’m sorry to create a new thread for something that has probably been answered before, but searching the WP support forums in a targeted fashion is so…wonky.

    Here’s my issue: I expect that an attachment_category page will display a list of the attachments in that category. Instead, I get a 404. Maybe my expectation is wrong. 🙂 And maybe this has something to do with my multisite setup.

    My steps:

    – in the subsite where MLA is enabled (it’s only in one subsite of the network)
    – go to Admin >> Media >> Att. Category
    – now I see the list of all Att. Categories I have created
    – each one has a “View” link
    – any View link I click on takes me to a 404 page
    – example URL from one of them: http://mysite.org/resources/attachment_category/my-category/ (where “resources” is the name of the subsite in my multisite network)

    I hope you can point me in the right direction.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-library-assistant/

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  • Plugin Author David Lingren

    (@dglingren)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for your question. No need to apologize, “wonky” is a very polite way of characterizing the dismal search facility in the support forums.

    The “category archive page” issue has indeed come up before, and you can find more information in this earlier topic and the other topics it links to:

    Att Categories menu returns 404 error

    Briefly, the “view” links are useless because WordPress archive pages are specifically designed to eliminate Media Library items (attachments) from consideration. There are two general approaches to change this for your site:

    1. modify the PHP code in the template files for archive pages to include attachments.
    2. use a normal WordPress page with [mla_gallery] shortcodes as a substitute for the default archive pages.

    Both approaches are addressed in the earlier support topics.

    I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you would like more specific help with your application to apply one of the two approaches outlined above.

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