donkeykin

Hi David,

Looking at the Fixit plugin I see an option for updating the caption or what you refer to as <figcaption> from the <figure> tag in the posts ..

My posts were imported into WordPress from Tumblr so the post_content has a <gallery> tag .. I’m a painter and I want to bulk transfer the post content to the caption information off all attached images ..

This is an example of my post_content info from my exported posts csv file:

[gallery]

The General

oil on canvas

90 x 75 cm

2019

Lawrence Wells

What I want to do is bulk copy that information without the [gallery] tag into my image captions so that the whole title, media, dimensions and year of each work will be inserted over the image in the gallery ..

Can you guide me in the best way to write the template for such a bulk change? Or should I do it a differnt way, ie change this post to Item Title Template from your example:

([+page_terms:category,single+]: )([+page_title+] )[+index+]

So that it moves the post_content to the caption information for each attached image …

Would it be like this:

([+page_terms:post_content+]: )([+caption+] )

The Fixit page seems a bit dangerous to me .. Ive run it a few times where it tells me changes were made to all the files but I cant find the changes .. 🙂

Perhaps I can assign a new variable with a template to the post_content info and then call it inside the mal gallery tag to display over the images? How would I do that? 🙂
Best regards,

Lawrence

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by donkeykin.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by donkeykin.
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Thanks for your quick response.

Using your Fixit plugin, I was able to apply categories from the posts to the Att. Categories of the associated images. You use the “attachment_ca” tag there.
Trying to do the same for post_tag to attachment_ta for tags resulted in an error.
It’s not clear to me how to update tags.

Bulk changing the titles or captions with Fixit is beyond my understanding.
You mention the number of items there is available in +found_rows+ .. I don’t know how to view all the categories I can use here .. so I am operating blind.

My main goal is to both update the titles and captions of my images based on the post content information, and also to update the images with the post categories and tags information, so I can display the images in a justified grid using the shortcode in the Justified Image Grid plugin I purchased.

But after updating the Att. Categories of my images using your Fixit plugin, when I try to create a filter shortcode for the JIG I am unable to get any results. This is the shortcode I was using:

[justified_image_grid filterby=attachment_category filter_style=buttons filter_orderby=title_asc]

I changed it to “attachment_ca” as listed in your Fixit plugin but that didn’t work ..

Using the exported posts CSV from my phpadmin and then updating categories by hand and importing it back into WP using a CSV importer might be best, if I knew what I was doing 🙂 I havent yet installed your development plugin together with your CSV importer .. does it filter the various column titles based on user needs, or does it require updating the exported CSV manually?

I should most likely study the WP codex intensively and/or find a tutorial on youtube for importing CSV .. image attributes are my primary need together with getting the JIG to display the required gallery.

Many thanks for your time and efforts on my behalf.