[Plugin: WP Photo Album Plus] Confused about Searching Gallery

There is a widget called Search Photos with the subtitle WPPA+ Search Photos.

On the Photo Albums -> Settings admin page select in Table IX item 2 a page in which the search results have to be displayed. The page should have at least %%wppa%% in its content. Usually one has created a page – like My Album using a wide template (no sidebars) – that contains %%wppa%% only.

Activate the widget.

The search alorithm is explained in the FAQ section of the plugins page.

Try this code in a special template that you use for the display of the photos:

$page = get_option('wppa_search_linkpage', '0');
if ($page == '0') {
_e('Warning. No page defined for search results!', 'wppa');
}
else {
$pagelink = wppa_dbg_url(get_page_link($page));
?>
<form id="wppa_searchform" action="<?php echo($pagelink) ?>" method="post" class="widget_search">
<div>
<input type="text" name="wppa-searchstring" id="wppa_s" value="<?php echo($wppa_searchstring) ?>" />
<input id = "wppa_searchsubmit" type="submit" value="<?php _e('Search', 'wppa'); ?>" />
</div>
</form>
<?php
}

what theme do you use?

Cant find the theme. If you mail me the template ( opajaap at opajaap.nl ) i will modify it for you.

If you can not find the file, here is how to:

On the wp edit page screen there is a selection box in the right hand sidebar where you can select the page template to be used for the page you are editing. It is in the Page Attributes section: Page Template.
Decide what template you want to modify.

In your theme directory there are many .php files, also the page templates, but the names need not to be the same as the template you are looking for. You should look for the file that has in its header:

* Template Name: .......

as in onecolumn-page.php of the theme twentyten:

<?php
/**
 * Template Name: One column, no sidebar
 *
 * A custom page template without sidebar.
 *
 * The "Template Name:" bit above allows this to be selectable
 * from a dropdown menu on the edit page screen.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Ten
 * @since Twenty Ten 1.0
 */

Once you found the file with the desired Template Name: you’ve got him.

You can insert

<?php
	/* Display the search field */
	global $wppa;
		if ( !isset($wppa['searchstring']) ) $wppa['searchstring'] = '';
		$page = get_option('wppa_search_linkpage', '0');
		if ($page == '0') {
			_e('Warning. No page defined for search results!', 'wppa');
		}
		else {
			if ( function_exists('wppa_dbg_url') ) $pagelink = wppa_dbg_url(get_page_link($page));
			else $pagelink = get_page_link($page);
?>
			<form id="wppa_searchform" action="<?php echo($pagelink) ?>" method="post" class="widget_search">
				<div>
					<input type="text" name="wppa-searchstring" id="wppa_s" value="<?php echo $wppa['searchstring'] ?>" />
					<input id = "wppa_searchsubmit" type="submit" value="<?php _e('Search', 'wppa_theme'); ?>" />
				</div>
			</form>
<?php
		}
?>

just before <?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> or something the like, it should be in any template.

You could try this:

<?php
$want_searchbar_on_page = '1234'; // assume 1234 is page id where you want the searbar on
$this_page = get_page();

if ($this_page->ID == $want_searchbar_on_page) {
.
.
.
the searchbar code
.
.
}
?>

The layout is defined by your themes css.
If you supply a link to your site (and isnstructions to get on the page involved) i can give you detailed instructions.