Dan Rossiter

Roy,

I’m glad you found an alternative to WP Filebase that will do at least some of what you need.

With the fancy icons, which icon generation methods do you currently have enabled? If you’re predominantly working with PDFs then you definitely want to get Ghostscript setup as that should handle most of your needs. Files being inaccessible based on role will make using Google Drive Viewer as a thumbnail generation method impossible since there isn’t a URL it can use to find the file as a non-authenticated user.

-Dan

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With the security issue, I have not investigated in detail, but two people have reported having their sites compromised on the support forum for that plugin which makes me very wary. 1 could be unrelated to the plugin, but 2 is a pattern.

With WP Filebase, I’m going to work on setting it up on my local test server to try and re-create the issue. How exactly do you have it setup? I just installed and activated Filebase and that alone has not broken ordering, but maybe it has something to do with what you have it doing specifically…

One thing I do notice off the bat is that Filebase throws a crap ton of warnings. I have my server logging PHP warnings and errors in detail and I’m getting all kinds of issues. One particularly concerning one is this: Notice: Undefined property: WP_Query::$post in /var/www/wp/wp-includes/query.php on line 3946 Notice: Undefined property: WP_Query::$post in /var/www/wp/wp-includes/query.php on line 3946

The fact that the warning is query-related makes me think that whatever Filebase is doing wrong may in some instances result in bad ordering since ordering relies on WP_Query functionality.

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Hi Roy,

Thanks for the comprehensive list!

First one word of warning, if you’re using this implementation, it looks like it has a large security vulnerability. I would strongly suggest taking it off any production system until the developer has patched the issue.

Other than that, your LAMP stack looks fine, so my guess would be that one of the plugins is causing ordering problems. Unfortunately, it is an involved test to narrow down where the issue is coming from. To test, we’ll need to do the following:

1. Disable all plugins and change to a default theme.
2. Test ordering by creating a gallery and setting the orderby parameter to something like “title” (easy to verify at a glance). Assuming this step works, continue to following steps.
3. Now start re-enabling all plugins and switch back to your theme, one-by-one, each time re-testing step 2. Once step 2 fails, whichever plugin you most recently re-enabled is the culprit.

With the settings question, you can indeed! If you change the default setting values, the raw ([dg]) shortcode will take all of those defaults.

And integrating PDF.js with DG shouldn’t be too challenging. You could either do it though a straight JS solution or by using the filters to modify the gallery output server-side.

Let me know what the above testing reveals!
-Dan

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Hi Roy,

Firstly, I’m glad many of your needs are met by the plugin!

For the other questions, opening in a new window is not supported within the plugin, but this post describes a work around to get links to open in a new window. Some day this will likely make it into Document Gallery, but I haven’t had the time to implement it the way I think it should be so it hasn’t happened yet.

For the second question, unfortunately there is no quick solution for pagination. I could envision using the filters documented on the Installation page under the Developers header to implement pagination or using JavaScript to modify the DOM after the page renders to hide later documents and add pagination navigation to progressively reveal later documents, but these are not trivial and would require development experience (not sure what your background is and whether this would be feasible for you to implement). At some point pagination may be implemented, but it by no means trivial due to the fact that it is a single part of a page that would need to change while the parts around it remain constant. Definitely will not be implemented within Document Gallery in the short term.

Addressing the ordering, you should be able to modify how documents are ordered by modifying the orderby parameter and the order parameter, as documented on the Installation page. If it doesn’t appear to work as documented, please do give me as much detail as possible so that we can figure out what has gone awry.

I hope those explanations help and please do let me know if you would like any further information.

-Dan

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Hi Randall,

This was the first I heard of the D&D functionality in Media Manager disappearing in 4.0, but I went and checked my test system and I’m seeing the same issue. A good way to test whether DG (or any other plugin) is to blame is to disable the plugin and see if the issue persists. I just did this on my system and it appears to still exist, so it looks like this is part of the WP core changes in 4.0.

I feel like this may be a bug rather than an intended change, but I’ll do some more digging later.

-Dan

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