talino

Not working across themes is indeed a problem, but I don’t see what I can do about it aside from writing a plugin (which I don’t know how to do, I tried reading about it and got totally confused).

The function is a very simple one, a kind of mini gallery. I want to be able to add it between two paragraphs, and it should scan a specified folder and spit out formatted divs & tags based on my folder structure and links. This is so that the mini gallery is automatically updated when I simply upload a new image.

For an example on how this looks: http://www.talino.org/photography/fishermen/

I simply want to write this in a post:

blah blah
<? gallery_here('blah'); ?>
more blah


and have it create this dynamically :

blah blah
<div class="thumbnail"><a href="/images/blah/01.jpg" rel="lightbox[blah]"><img src="/images/blah/thumbs/01.jpg"/></a></div>
<div class="thumbnail"><a href="/images/blah/02.jpg" rel="lightbox[blah]"><img src="/images/blah/thumbs/02.jpg"/></a></div>
more blah


etc, a div for each image in the folder.

I know how to write this function but I simply don’t know where 🙂

Thanks for all your help.

Thank you so much. This is exactly what I needed. Point n° 2 solved 🙂

It’s been quite an evening. I fired up my local server and created a database. Went online with my ISP’s phpmyadmin and exported my online database. Back here, I imported it into the local server. Then I changed my local wp-config.php to point to the new db, server, user and password. What I now get is a goofed-up Dashboard which does the following:

http://192.168.0.4/wp/wp-admin/

This shows the Dashboard.

But the “Options” link (or any link for that matter) points to http://www.mysite.com/wp/wp-admin/whatever.php , so I can’t even change the WP root. I managed to get there once, dunno how, and I almost trashed the online site completely. This is delicate stuff. Anyway, I’m now locked in a local server which amazingly points to an online server when its own config file is telling it to go somewhere else.

Bloody nightmare.

I’d really like to know where the WP root settings are stored within the db so I could just go there and fix it myself.

Thanks.

I see. Do you use that method even on fully-functional sites, for doing stuff like changing background images or seeing what the sidebar would look like if it had a 1px margin? And then synchronize the local template with the server?

And BTW, developing on a Mac doesn’t make one suspicious (nor a zealot)… 🙂

Thanks Kafkaesqui. I was actually reading several WP docs titled “Writing your own plugins” and stuff like that, but I got lost quite quickly. I have some experience with PHP although not enough that it would make me understand sentences with terms like “hooks” and “filters” in them without blinking. I’ve customized my template quite heavily but I’m not really a programmer.

I will try your idea for a functions template (and renaming the function call in the template file), because it does seem much easier to do. All I need to do is shuffle around an anchor tag. Learning to write plugins seems like overkill and anyway I’m reading 150 pages a day on WP now…

From what I understand, your solution involves creating custom template tags, is that right?

Aha… Now I’ll have to learn how to write plugins (while at the same learning 300 other WP topics) 🙂

If I understand correctly, this boils down to essentially copying the function to my own script, modifying it there and then activating the script as a plugin, right (assuming I’ve learn to format it correctly)?