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  • Thread Starter kevincowart111

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    I’m not familiar with how to do this but I am definitely willing to learn and research in order to make this happen.

    Thread Starter kevincowart111

    (@kevincowart111)

    Below are comments to your questions/statements.

    What you really want is a two-level organization; a top level divided by first-letter and then an optional lower level to paginate letters with a large number of items. Does that make sense?

    – this is exactly right

    I assume you are using the Title field; right? Do you need to handle “noise words”, i.e., if the title is “A New Day” does it go under “A” or “N” (New Day, A)?

    – Yes, I would use the title field and I do not need to hand “noise words”. “A new day” would go in the Letter A group.

    Finally, how do you want to show the “alphabetical division” controls on the page?

    – yes hyperlinks for letters A-Z at the bottom of the page the same way that pagination has 1- x.

    First, though, you need a way of matching the song parts to their “parent” song. How does your application specify which part goes with which song?

    – Since I do not have an already established database. I can set this up in whatever way you think best. Whether it involves renaming the original file name or adding information in MLA after upload, both are acceptable options.

    My only concern with the collapsomatic is that I need it to be simple to upload songs into the library incase other users with permissions want to do this. Adding fields in the MLA gallery seems simple enough.

    Thanks for the investigation. Hopefully this will benefit multiple users of your plugin.

    Thread Starter kevincowart111

    (@kevincowart111)

    I finally resolved the mla_target=”_blank” issue. As you have stated in multiple other posts, you CANNOT use the (visual) portion of the text editor as it will alter the code causing errors.

    So my code as of now is as follows
    [mla_gallery mla_viewer=true size=none post_mime_type=application/pdf columns=6 post_parent=all attachment_category=’groove-charts’ link=file mla_target=”_blank”]

    Issues that I resolved that may help others

    1. always enter the shortcode in the text port and not the visual portion as mentioned above

    2. the attachment_category= has to be filled in with the slug name of the category

    3. link=file can possibly be affected by other plugs (in my case wp edit)

    I have other questions and ideas that I will start another topic on. Thank you for all your help.

    Thread Starter kevincowart111

    (@kevincowart111)

    First problem is resolved. I disabled the plugins one by one and wp edit was the culprit. Now the links are working.

    Is there a way to open the attachment in a new window. I have to keep the site on the main page to keep the audio player intact.

    Thread Starter kevincowart111

    (@kevincowart111)

    Thanks for the quick response.

    caldera forms
    css hero
    google calendar events
    mailchimp lite
    MLA
    woocommerce
    wp edit
    wp smush
    xml sitemap and google news
    youtube

    I tried mla_viewer=false and it turned the pdf thumbnail into long grey boxes with no link attached.

    Regarding the second problem, if there are 200 songs, and every song has 2-7 parts to the song, I need a way for the user to easily scroll through and find the song, then find the part. Almost seems like I need a tab system or something that expands. I definitely know this is reaching outside of the MLA plug but any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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