macguru2000

Hi curiouskat,

If you assign the gallery template and remove the customizations do the titles work like on the demo page? If so this small snippet of CSS code should be placed into your theme’s style.css file to make the title start on the top of the thumbnail.

.catablog-title {
  top: 0px !important;
  bottom: auto !important;
}

Alex,

Thanks for your interest, rating and ideas about CataBlog. Let me address some of your comments.

– I do not think I will be integrating CataBlog with the WordPress Media Library anytime soon, it doesn’t seem to be a necessary feature, yes you might have to upload the same file twice in certain situations. Have you looked into the new public feature, this may help solve your problem by offering a dedicated page for each catalog item.

– There are plans for a “gallery” feature that will let you create distinct lists of catalog items and reorder these collections in any order you want. The reason that a gallery must be created for this is that you cannot order a list of items that may have more than one category, it is impossible. So instead the library will have all catalog items, and galleries will be collections of library items. I wrote about this issue on the blog at http://catablog.illproductions.com/2011/04/ordering-multiple-categories/

– Love the idea of letting people rename the files after they upload them, I also want to let people edit each item’s thumbnail cropping and other such advanced features. Just need the time and inspiration to write the code.

– You could try hacking the catalog taxonomy in CataBlog.class.php, not sure how much PHP you know. I was thinking that in a future release, CataBlog would have its own set of Widgets, including a category cloud, list widget and a random catalog items preview widget.

Hi Peterotte,

I am glad to learn of your interest in CataBlog, but I am unsure why exactly you would expect my plugin to have a custom search feature. There is no mention of it as a feature in the plugin’s description. I also wrote a post on the plugin’s blog about this very topic.

I believe it is easy enough to integrate your catalog into the built in WordPress search if you enable the new public feature. I am also not going to recreate the code to expand Shortcodes for searches when other plugins already do it. Personally I believe that responsibility lies within the WordPress core.

As plugin developers we try to be everything to everyone, and well this just isn’t possible. This is especially true when it comes to server configurations. If you are running WordPress on MsSql I don’t really know what to tell you, except that I would look for an ASP solution instead of WordPress, or use another server.

CataBlog has worked as a generic cataloging tool for many a happy person. There is a documented hack to add pagination in the frontend, eventually when I have time I will integrate a better solution directly into CataBlog.

When you mention breadcrumbs, I am curious how you are integrating your catalog. The Shortcode isn’t going to make breadcrumbs, because it has no idea what page it is on, and the public catalog item pages could have breadcrumbs, but it really would just be a list of the catalog item’s categories. This is the same reason why WordPress posts don’t have breadcrumbs themselves, WordPress pages can have breadcrumbs, but not posts. This is because pages can have parent pages, posts cannot.

You could also try the newer, but not as well supported (old browsers are my bane) display method known as inline-block. But I am guessing that either the “big open space to the right” is from either an encapsulating element or a right margin. CataBlog does not have a very large margin by default in the gallery view, so I am doubting that it is the second. Are you sure you are not putting your gallery into a HTML element that is not the full width of your page?

Crazy cool, my guess is it’s a server memory issue, but I’m unsure. When I have some time I will look into better “Out of Memory” error reporting.

Are you uploading individual images that are 2 gigabytes in files size, wow! Can you give me example filenames for files that are not read? Do they contain special characters? different file extensions? The filenames on the server is important, not the filename on your local computer.

Also, are there any error messages reported when you rescan the originals folder?

Also I am curious why you would need to redownload a file you just uploaded?