macguru2000

Jeez, this is definitely turning into a big headache for you. Maybe you could export an XML backup and email it to me or post it here. If there is anything fishy about your data I might be able to spot it. Perhaps the extension isn’t part of the image field in the database, perhaps the image files don’t have their extensions…

…Other then that the only thing I could think of is that now PHP doesn’t have permission to read your uploaded photos. If you can go and change permissions recursively (on all child directories and files) on wp-content/uploads/catablog to 777 (read/write/execute for everyone) and see if that fixes your problem. If it does, bring the permissions down to 775 a (read/write/execute for owner and group, read/execute for everyone) and see if it still work by checking that changing thumbnail size works. If this is the issue I would recommend that you not leave anything on your server with permission 777, that is unsafe for a website longterm, but testing with it is ok. Instead leave permissions at 775, which is a pretty standard permission set for web content since the owner (FTP) and group (Apache, PHP) both have read/write/execute access.

Good luck, hope this finally works for you.
– Zach

Well, for now I don’t plan to be packaging any flash audio players with the plugin. This mean you will be responsible for providing your own media playing solution. That being said there are a few ways to add an audio player to each catalog item:

1. If you are familiar with javascript it would be possible to append a audio player to each individual catalog item’s description. swfObject and jQuery would be two libraries I would use to accomplish this. Simply loop through each .catablog-row html element, read and sanitize the item’s title for the file path, and finally append a flash audio player to the description of each row using the sanitized title in the file path to load unique audio files for each row.

2. You can also just copy and paste html code into the description field, if you have a manageable number of catalog items this method will be much easier and possibly faster.

the next release is going to contain a View Editor which will have a sort of templating system that would accommodate for this. good luck, let me know if that works out for you and would be interested in seeing the final page for my examples section at http://catablog.illproductions.net/. Thanks

Right now the best way to change your currency is to manually edit the frontend template page, this will require some HTML knowledge. the file you want to edit is located in the catablog directory in your plugins directory. Under catablog look for a template directory and in there is a frontend-view.php file.

filepath: wp-content/plugins/catablog/template/frontend-view.php

You can also open it with the built in WordPress editor under plugins. Once you are in the frontend-view.php file, look for the line that says:

<input type='hidden' name='currency_code' value='USD'>

Change the value form ‘USD’ to any other currency that PayPal supports. I will be introducing a view editor in the next version of CataBlog. It will require basic HTML knowledge to use, but it will allow people to easily modify and create their own page elements right inside the catalog rows. Cheers!

– Zach

Enigma,

I am planning to release an update today or tomorrow that will address some basic CSS issues I have been seeing. Themes have a lot of control over the websites appearance and there is no way I can make CataBlog as smart as someone with a good understanding of CSS. That being said I am making the base style classes’ position and display properties more specific. CataBlog will now be reseting all float, display, position and clear properties for all CataBlog HTML elements. This should make coding two or more column displays easier and stop theme CSS classes from breaking the display.

Cheers

Enigma,

Getting CataBlog in a sidebar isn’t natively supported through a widget yet, but you might beable to put the shortcode code in a built in widget. As far as using a direct method in your theme, not supported but could be possible if you know about object oriented PHP and how to instantiate a class.

So I am not 100% sure why you are not seeing the second column. There is an example of a two column layout that you can see at http://www.sweetdreamscoop.org/store. The way I see it, either the second shortcode isn’t loading anything due to a typo in the post, or more likely your second column is being loaded but the CSS is pushing the second column down below the first. I can help you more if you point me at the page you are having this problem with. Also as a side note, the second column will contain all the CataBlog items the first one has because it doesn’t have its own tag parameter.

These are all features I want to add soon, including pre-defined layouts, a widget and multiple catalogs. Input on which features should come first will be considered.

Cheers,
Zach