Dan Rossiter

Hi Chris,

I just went to verify against my own setup and what you’re using definitely looks correct. I’m using [dg descriptions=true category="New York Times" images=true] on one of my galleries.

Do you have logging enabled (Dashboard -> Settings -> Document Gallery -> Advanced tab)? If not, can you try enabling that and viewing the page where you have the gallery setup?

To be honest, I’m a bit stumped. What you are doing *should* be working. I’ll ponder on this a bit…

-Dan

Hi Chris,

There definitely is a way to include the same document in galleries on multiple posts. Depending on what specifically your use case is, you can use a couple of different methods.

1. If it is a logical grouping of documents that are all repeated in multiple places then you can use taxonomies to do what you want, as documented on the Installation tab) under the “Categories/Custom Taxonomy Option” header. The categorization of attachments is outside the scope of Document Gallery, but I discuss some plugins that will do this for you [here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-for-media-files).

2. If you build your gallery through the “Create Document Gallery” dialog integrated into the Media Manager (shown on the Screenshots tab) then you can use any attachments you like in creating your gallery — you’re not limited to just those on the current post.

-Dan

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Hi ghislaine,

attachment_pg=false means that the links will point directly to the attachment file rather than a WordPress page for that file. What your browser does with the link is platform-dependent.

In your case, you said it is an image, so most browsers will simply open the image directly rather than prompting to download. With other files like MS Word documents that a browser generally cannot open directly the browser will give a download prompt. This functionality is completely outside of Document Gallery’s control.

-Dan

Fantastic! Glad you got it working! 🙂

Yeah, I think a UI for configuring the icon template is a good idea — I was actually thinking that as I was falling asleep. I’ll add that to the issue tracker and hopefully we’ll get that in in the not-too-distant future.

-Dan

Hi Julien,

You have found where the logic exists for this functionality, but you definitely do not want to modify the plugin directly. That’s why we’ve build filters in 🙂

Basically, a filter allows you to change the plugin output without changing the plugin itself. In this case, I believe you’ll want something like below:

add_filter('dg_icon_template', 'dg_icon_details_mod', 10, 3);

 function dg_icon_details_mod($icon, $descriptions, $id) {
	if ($descriptions) {
		$icon =
		'<div id="document-gallery-1" class="document-icon-wrapper descriptions">' .
		'   <div class="document-icon">' .
		'	  <a href="%link%" target="%target%"><img src="%img%" title="%title_attribute%" alt="%title_attribute%"></a>' .
		'   </div>' .
		'   <strong>Titre:</strong> %title%<br>' .
		'   <strong>Legende:</strong> %description%<br>' .
		'   <strong>Nom du fichier:</strong> ' . basename( get_attached_file( $id ) ) . '<br>' .
		'   <strong>Taille:</strong> %size%</p>' .
		'</div>';
	}

	return $icon;
 }

Now, where this code goes is a bit more tricky. If you have a custom theme where you aren’t likely to get updates, you can put this into a “functions.php” file in the root of your theme’s directory. The more likely case is that you are using a theme from somewhere else. If that’s the case, you won’t want to modify that theme’s functions file because then changes will be lost whenever you get an update. What you’ll want to do instead is create a child theme. This process is documented here, and is very easy to setup 🙂

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

-Dan

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Hi andremalenfant,

You make a valid point. The thought when the functionality was added is that users would prefer to work with human-readable names rather than slugs, but I see your point in the potential for the name to change.

Let me think on this as I don’t want to unnecessarily break existing usages of the name in converting to slugs.

-Dan

Hi John,

What exactly do you mean “lost everything”? Uninstalling will only delete cached thumbnails and a few DG-specific settings. If you reinstall it should just take a min or two to re-do the settings the way you had them — less if you didn’t have them customized at all.

-Dan