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In reply to: [CataBlog] [Plugin: CataBlog] Multiple image supportI have released a beta version of CataBlog today that has the multiple image support this thread is discussing. Read more about it at New Beta, CataBlog 1.1.5 Available.
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In reply to: [CataBlog] [Plugin: CataBlog] Multiple image supportI am currently working on this, it will be a bit tricky as I need to make new controls for uploading, deleting, ordering and displaying the non-primary images. The primary image will be the image you upload to create the catalog item. After creating an item with a primary image you will then be allowed to add on extra images to the catalog item. Sorry it has taken so long, but its a big feature. There will be a beta soon, promise.
– Zach
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In reply to: Relevanssi and searching catablog entriesUPDATE
if anyone out there wants to use the Relevanssi plugin to index shortcode content for searches with CataBlog should have no problems. If you see individual catalog items showing in your search results, you should make sure Relevanssi is set to use only public posts and pages and not all posts and pages. Read more about it at the official CataBlog website.
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In reply to: [CataBlog] [Plugin: CataBlog] Border on ImagesHi Alavery,
I believe that you will be able to fix the borders with CSS, add an overriding css class to your theme’s styles.css files. Here is an example
.catablog-image { border: 0 none; }good luck and let me know if that helped.
– Zach
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In reply to: [CataBlog] [Plugin: CataBlog] Ignore errors caused by links to Private pages?Could you please resolve this topic as I believe at this point it has been finished.
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In reply to: [CataBlog] CataBlog Feature RequestWell actually I mean a few things, I guess the best way to do it would be lay it out in step. Sorry I didn’t convey it thoroughly in the last post.
1. Go to the CataBlog Options Panel and switch to the Store tab. You must have something in the template section there if you are seeing “buy now” buttons. If you look at the HTML in that template it is basically a form.
2 Change the last tag, an image type input,
<input type="image"... />. You would probably want to switch that input tag to a submit button with a CSS class, perhaps.catablog-buynow.3. In any CSS file loaded by your template, perhaps
style.css, you should set style code that sets a width, height and background image on the class from the last step,.catablog-buynow. Look into styling form elements online.4. Make sure to also set a CSS hover pseudo class for the submit button from the earlier steps,
.catablog-buynow:hover.You might need to do some independent research but it is very possible to give a form element a class and control it with CSS on standard, active, hover and focus states. Good luck and let me know if you figure it out.
By the way, you should never edit the
catablog.cssfile within the plugin directory. You can make your owncatablog.cssfile in the template directory which will get loaded and let you set CataBlog settings if you do not want to put your catalog style code into the theme’sstyles.cssfile. In the next version thecatablog.cssstylesheet will only be loaded when catalogs are found on the current page.– Zach
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In reply to: [CataBlog] CataBlog Feature RequestIt is very possible to make a hover state for the buy now button using the store tab in CataBlog Options. SImple modify your template so you give the final input tag a class, then go into your styles.css file and add the class and :hover pseudo class to the file. Something as easy as adding
.catablog-buynowto the button template in CataBlog options and then.catablog-buynow:hover { color:red; }should work. If you want to make the graphic change I would recommend rethinking how the button works, perhaps CSS backgronud-image would be more appropriate for the button styling, then you can swap the image or change its position on hover. Good luck– Zach
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In reply to: [CataBlog] CataBlog Support ForumHi kristel_ttm,
The issue you are having with the left margin for your catalog descriptions is actually not a css issue. It is a HTML issue. The .catalog-description tag in your CataBlog template is a <p> tag, perhaps you set that specifically or else it just came that way. Well the problem is you can’t nest paragraph tags and you have put <p> tags in your catalog description content. I would recommend switching the .catablog-description tag to a <div> in your template settings. Cheers.
– Zach
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In reply to: [CataBlog] [Plugin: CataBlog] Ignore errors caused by links to Private pages?christogeretz,
Glad to hear that the links in CataBlog are not breaking. Now as far as the location of the template files, you were actually correct, they are in
/wp-content/plugins/catablog/templates/views. The thing is that the two files are hard coded to be put in the drop down menu. That means for now the two selectable templates are default and gallery, period. They are meant to be edited in the textarea on the template tab in the CataBlog Options Panel. It was made so to be easily editable and meet the specific needs of individual blogs. If you want to suggest a new template for the drop down menu then send me a copy of the code and description of how you think it would best be used. Cheers,– Zach
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In reply to: [CataBlog] [Plugin: CataBlog] Ignore errors caused by links to Private pages?hi christogeretz,
I am curious if links to http://www.foo.com/members/ work fine from a standard link in a post or page’s content. The reason I wonder this is because CataBlog does nothing fancy or different with its links, they are not JavaScript powered, they are standard html
<a href="link"></a>tags. Do you have a target set in the title tab of the CataBlog Options Panel? This may be breaking the link. Also are you using a custom template for your catalog html rendering? This also could be breaking your links. If you could put an example online that would also be very helpful and aid in discovering a solution to this bug. Thanks for your time in helping to solve this problem.– Zach
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In reply to: [CataBlog] CataBlog Support ForumHi emilyrockrose,
What you should do is disable the LightBox feature and change your template code to the code below. The only real change is that the href attribute of the a tag on the first line is now the link token %LINK% instead of the %TITLE-TEXT% token.
<a href="%LINK%" class="catablog-row catablog-gallery %LIGHTBOX%" style="width:%IMAGE-SIZE%px; height:%IMAGE-SIZE%px;"> <img class="catablog-image" src="%IMAGE%" height="%IMAGE-SIZE%" width="%IMAGE-SIZE%" alt="" /> <strong class="catablog-title" style="width:%HOVER-TITLE-SIZE%;">%TITLE-TEXT%</strong> <span class="catablog-description">%DESCRIPTION%</span> </a>Now just set the link for each catalog item, if it is a page on your blog I would use the permalink without the domain and a forward slash at the beginning.
example
/2011/10/my-post-on-stuff/I also explain this at the official blog.
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In reply to: [CataBlog] [Plugin: CataBlog] Multiple image supportI’m sorry but I can’t give any hard time Lazy Trumpeter. I have been pretty busy just supporting the current release of CataBlog and I am also very busy with other work. I hope that I can get to this feature soon, even if it is only a primary and secondary image.
I am curious, how you thought the frontend might render multiple images? would they just appear one after the other? would the primary image be bigger and the secondary images be smaller? How would the LightBox interact with multiple images? Ideally this would all be configurable, but I also hope it illustrates the large scope of the feature.
Cheers,
– ZachForum: Plugins
In reply to: Relevanssi and searching catablog entriesCould you please resolve this thread. Thanks.
– Zach
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In reply to: [CataBlog] CataBlog images are brokenHi Yassine,
I am glad we got a chance to troubleshoot this problem together. It would seem that CataBlog is not showing an error when it fails to make a folder on the server. You were successful at solving the problem by manually creating all four CataBlog image folders and giving Apache permission to write to them. These folders are:
wp-content/uploads/catablog/
wp-content/uploads/catablog/fullsize/
wp-content/uploads/catablog/originals/
wp-content/uploads/catablog/thumbnails/Better error handling for this problem will be in a future version of CataBlog.
Thanks again.– Zach
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In reply to: [CataBlog] CataBlog Support ForumHi AntaresMHD,
The categories drop down list that was added in version 1.0 only works with the backend admin panels. There is no easy shortcode or other way to add a drop down menu for categories into a page or post. Keeping that in mind, you can put different categories into different pages or posts and possibly use another plugin to generate a drop down menu of your ‘catalog’ pages.
If you are looking to use CSS selectors to target different categories I would again recommend something similar to above. You can manually wrap your individual catalogs in a tag with a specified class
<div class="red-catalog">and then use that div in your CSS selector.red-catalog .catablog-rowor.red-catalog .catablog-description. I think you get the idea.Hope that was helpful and as always, if you haven’t rated or confirmed CataBlog works with your version of WordPress, please do so here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/catablog/