Dan Rossiter

Hi Rob,

The below is a quote from the Memphis Document Library page:

When you uninstall the documents library make sure you export all your important files. All data will be removed on completion of uninstall, this includes files, directories, posts, and media.

I believe you will need to re upload the files in order to get them to function with Document Gallery as it sounds like the files will have been removed. Also, the directory containing the files is likely not intended for direct access.

Re uploading shouldn’t be too painful using something like Add From Server.

-Dan

Hi dayson88,

To increase the space under each row you can use some custom CSS like this (you can change the 3 to whatever you like). This can be entered at Settings -> Document Gallery -> Custom CSS:
.document-gallery .document-icon-row { margin-bottom: 3em }

Regarding the row width, I took a look at your page and it appears to be filling the whole width of the post body. Can you show me (maybe with a screenshot) where you are expecting the row to extend to?

-Dan

Hi dayson88,

The closest that Document Gallery supports is setting attachment_pg to true.

Unfortunately it is outside of the scope of DG to support embedding files in the browser. This is quite a complex feature and really belongs in its own plugin. I started work on such a plugin a while ago, but that plugin has not been worked on in some time and is likely incompatible with current versions of WordPress. The ideal implementation of a viewer for attachments would embed the viewer in the attachment page, making it work with Document Gallery out of the box. If you can find such a plugin then you will have a solution.

-Dan

To clarify, you’re wanting to use the visual editor to modify your gallery and the error you are getting is that you can’t use the editor for the gallery?

There are some settings supported by the [dg] shortcode that are not supported by the editor. I would assume that if you are getting this error you manually entered the shortcode at some point?

If you switch to plain text mode and copy/paste the [dg ...] shortcode from there I’ll have a better idea what exactly is going on, but this is unlikely to be related to being multi-site.

-Dan

Hi Ron,

Since this thread was last active, the approach I’m recommending has changed slightly. There is a WordPress plugin (Code Snippets) that allows you to put bits of PHP code in without having to mess with any of the normal complications that might be involved.

With Code Snippets installed, you would want to add a snippet that looks something like this:

function dg_icon_template($icon, $use_descriptions, $id) {
     if ( $use_descriptions ) {
	     $attachment = get_post( $id );
	     $icon = str_replace( '%description%', $attachment->post_excerpt, $icon );
     }
     return $icon;
 }
 add_filter( 'dg_icon_template', 'dg_icon_template', 10, 3 );

-Dan

Hi zman8,

I’m so sorry. I definitely typed a response to you days ago to tell you it was going to take a bit longer since it’s actually a more involved solution than I initially thought, but apparently I didn’t submit what I typed…

Anyway, I have a solution for you now. As I mentioned above, the solution is a bit more complicated than I initially thought. You’re actually going to need to use a bit of PHP rather than CSS to get the result you’re looking for.

First, you’ll want to install Code Snippets which is a plugin that allows you to easily add bits of PHP to your WordPress site. Once that’s installed, you’ll add a snippet with the following code:

function dg_gallery_template($gallery, $use_descriptions) {
     if ( ! $use_descriptions ) {
         $gallery = '<table id="%id%" class="%class%" %data%>%rows%</table>';
     }
     return $gallery;
 }
 add_filter( 'dg_gallery_template', 'dg_gallery_template', 10, 2 );

 function dg_row_template($row, $use_descriptions) {
     if ( ! $use_descriptions ) {
         $row = '<tr class="%class%">%icons%</tr>';
     }
     return $row;
 }
 add_filter( 'dg_row_template', 'dg_row_template', 10, 2 );

 function dg_icon_template($icon, $use_descriptions, $id) {
     if ( ! $use_descriptions ) {
         $icon = '<td>%date%</td><td><a href="%link%" target="%target%"><span class="title">%title%</title></td>';
     }
     return $icon;
 }
 add_filter( 'dg_icon_template', 'dg_icon_template', 10, 3 );

Once this is done, your galleries should all be in tabular format. Be sure when you create your galleries you only have 1 column in order to match the output you’re looking for and ensure that descriptions are not enabled.

-Dan

Hey there,

I’m sorry you’re having issues with DG and the visual editor!

Can you first tell me, what version of DG and WP do you have installed? What browser are you using?

Thanks,
Dan