[Plugin: Media Categories] example of use with custom taxonomy

I’m fairly convinced I’m doing it right, and that it just doesn’t work with custom taxonomies.

I’m using my custom taxonomy for regular posts and it works fine, likewise, Media Categories works fine so long as it uses categories or tags as it’s taxonomy.
I don’t know what else to test to confirm this, I’ve spent many hours..so I’ll just live with it.

Thanks,

plugin version 1.4.1 , wp 3.4.1.

Great invention by the way, I’ve been trying to do this forever, with other plugins, but can never figure out how to get output.

Aside from the custom tax issue, is their ANY other way to query attachments by the taxonomy other than teh gallery shortcode?

I have other threads on this forum where I’m trying to figure out how to use this is my theme, some awkward solutions…but I found info on how to list terms and figured out how to mod my archives template with conditional shortcodes so the new tax outputs in a tag archive like it should (since I’m using “post_tag” as my media cat). So it’s coming along.

I’ll be revisiting the custom taxonomy isuue I’m sure, post_tags works for me, but I’d love it if my taxonomy could be named more appropriatly.

Whoa, I’m opening a real can o’ worms here. All new stuff to me. Looking forward to exploring all the potential of this. Even as it is it’s just great. Thanks again.

Also, I’m really desperate for pointers on getting started with outputting the media tagged images with queries, I’ve had 0 success.

I’m dealing with 3 things that I’ve not delt with before:

1} query attachments? I’m not sure how to think about this, because the media categories images don’t seem to reference a post which they are attached to. In fact, they need the id if outside the loop.

2}Query a custom taxonomy? I think I understand this just from reading, but not within the context of the above.

3)custom post type for the custom media category taxonomy? ..about here it gets really muddy.

I’m just looking for a way to output the images so they look like a gallery, but each has meta for it’s parent post. Can I do it? Can you direct to any examples of somethng similar that I might try to mod?

thanks

Haven’t revisited since my last post but this is as far as I got.

<?php $images = get_posts( array('post_type' => 'attachment',
'category__in' => array(42),
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'post_status' => 'inheret'

)  );

if ( !empty($images) ) {
	foreach ( $images as $image ) {

echo $image->post_title .'<br />';

echo the_attachment_link($image->ID);?></br>

<?php
$first_name = get_the_author_meta('first_name',$user_id); 

$user_info = get_userdata(1);
      $username = $user_info->user_login;
      $first_name = $user_info->first_name;
      $last_name = $user_info->last_name;
      echo "$user_name.";

}
}
?>

It seems at one point I had at least the author name in the output for this, but now this isn’t getting it. Otherwise it gets the images and the titles, which is better han before.

On my site the images will be uploaded to a post. I need to be able to get the authors post link from the attachments, but not sure how because I don’t understand how image files that are categorized outside of posts and pages can have an “author”. Is what I’m trying to do possible?

thanks!