[Plugin: NextGEN Custom Fields] Fields won't show

JenniferFioL
(@jenniferfiol)

10 years, 11 months ago

Hej,

I have the following problem: I take care of the website for a local catshelter (www.foreningen9liv.se) here in Sweden and I know next to nothing about php.

I installed the NextGen Custom Fields Plugin to add Titles (the Cat names) plus a short description (female/male/age) to each thumbnail in the galleries of cats we have for adoption.

http://foreningen9liv.se/soker-nytt-hem/vuxna-katter/

I would like our galleries to look like this:

http://gomakethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/petfinder-api.jpg

So I created two Image custom fields:

Title (text input)
description (text area)

Question 1: What is the difference between an “text input” and a “text area” field ?

Then I followed the instructions on
http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/nextgen-custom-fields-plugin-add-more-information-about-an-image-in-the-nextgen-gallery/
and
http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/how-to-link-nextgen-gallery-images-to-an-individual-page-or-post-in-wordpress/

on where to put the code and ever since then everything is a mess which I am trying to repair.

For example the titles (cat names) were suddenly links and when clicked upon the thumbnails would no longer open in the larger image but link to the page where the gallery was on.

So, I am about to delete to totally messed up nextgen-gallery/view/gallery.php and nextgen-gallery/view/gallery-caption.php files and install the original files.

Question 2: WHERE do I put WHAT code to add Titles (the Cat names) plus a short description (female/male/age) to each thumbnail ?

Would apprechiate if you could go into as much detail as possible as I am not a php-coder and I feel totally lost now. Best would be to tell me what php script, plus what line I insert what code exactly.

I would be really really grateful for your help in this matter. I have been searching the internet the whole last week now, I am a total php newbie and I need to get the catsheleter website up and running asap.

Greetings from Sweden,
Jennifer

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery-custom-fields/

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Plugin Author shauno
(@shauno)

10 years, 11 months ago

Hi Jennifer

To answer your first question, an ‘input’ provides a small, single line input area to capture short pieces of text. A ‘textarea’ provides a larger input area to capture text, and are typically used when you want to add more than just a single line of text.

To answer your second question, I have made a quick example of what your gallery.php should look like here: http://pastebin.com/4rAvbv6k

You will see on line 47 I output the ‘Title’ custom field followed by an HTML line break (<br />). Then on line 48 I output the ‘Description’ custom field.
Assuming you have used ‘Title’ and ‘Description’ as your field names (case matters), you can just copy and paste that entire example over your gallery.php

Let me know if that helps or you need anything else.

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