Having Problems

  • steveraven

    (@steveraven)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    I know I’ve used this plugin before, but its been a while and I’m having problems.

    I used to be able to set up a list of links with thumbnails, that were generated by Robothumb, but I’ll be damned if I can remember how I did it.

    I’m using the basic setup, everything set as default with the exception of Robothumb being set to grab images from the websites in ‘Library 1’.

    So as a refresher, how does this work?

    The documentation is either near useless or well out of date now, so I couldn’t get any help there – especially as on the first time I used this plugin it fired up virtually straight away.

    Thanks for any input on getting this to work!

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  • Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Did you check the option for images to be displayed under the Advanced Settings tab under Library Settings?

    Did you check the option labeled Use thumbnail service for dynamic link images?

    Is your site running on http or https?

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Also, did you try generating the images and storing them locally?

    Thread Starter steveraven

    (@steveraven)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Gotcha!

    I’d not added the ‘Library’ advanced settings option, and they fired up straight away!

    It’s a whole new ball game since last when I used it, but I’ve got something to work on with these new options.

    Thanks for the assistance!

    Thread Starter steveraven

    (@steveraven)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    One more thing –

    I’m only able to get a straight lined list of items going straight down the left hand side of the page, with the title of the link appearing at the side.

    Is is possible to have links side by side, in around four columns, with the title of the links underneath the image?

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by steveraven.
    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    I think what you are looking for is to format your links in a table format. Under Library Settings, you can configure your layout for table format using the button ‘Reset current library for table layout’. Then, under the Advanced tab, you would need to change a few things to display multiple links per table row. These would include moving the tr tag from the Before Link row to the intermittent before link row. Same thing for the after link closing tr tag. You would also need to set a number for the Intermittent before link, reflecting how many items you would want to display per table row.

    Let me know if this makes sense and helps and please consider donating to support this plugin’s development.

    Thread Starter steveraven

    (@steveraven)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    I’ll look at that later, but meanwhile I’ve had to go with a plugin with less features, but which displays as mentioned above.

    Using tables though – isn’t that a feature that’s not supported on a responsive layout?

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Indeed, tables are not very responsive. That being said, you have full control over the tags that you place around links in the Advanced section of the Library Settings. You could just as easily put div tags before and after links, set them to float in your stylesheet and output a link or image, followed by a description, perhaps with a br tag or two between the two.

    Thread Starter steveraven

    (@steveraven)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Yannik,

    Right I’ve been messing around with various layouts, and I think I might have found one using your suggestion above re:’Reset current library to Table Layout’.

    One slight problem with this though is that at the end of the new table, there’s a table/link reading ‘Similar To’.

    How would I go about removing this last field?

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Unfortunately, when you just click on Show column headers, it will always display 3 columns. A better place to create a first row of columns with a variable number would be by using the field Before First Link in the first row of the configuration table in the Advanced tab of library settings. You could write something like:

    <tr><th>First Header</th><th>Second header</th>

    Let me know if this helps.

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