yyeric

could you also add Plurk if it is at all possible?
Thanks heaps

If you are a heavy NextGen Gallery user, you probably will sooner or later realise that there are too many tags in tag cloud. Of course, you may limit the number of tags showing, but I don’t want to eliminate any.

I will write something up which simulates 2 level of tags when displaying the tag clouds.

Example.

MLB
MLB-Boston
MLB-Seattle
MLB-Chihcago

the 3 teams will show under MLB as a parent tag.

Don’t know how it will go, but this is something I need and will do my best to try to get it up and running.

Cheers, just some thoughts.

Eric

G’Day guys,

It’s all for a better NextGen Gallery to come! Thanks Alex for all the development work.

By the way, if you want tag cloud to be listed in alphabetical order

$results = $wpdb->get_results('SELECT name, slug FROM wp_ngg_tags ORDER by name');

tommo77funk you have got some great photography works out there!
will do.

It’s pretty easy to mod the NextGen Gallery Buy Now plug-in to make it come up as a shopping cart first, instead of going straight to “Buy Now” which means people can only purcahse one thing at a time.

Check this from my site . I also added a “View Cart” function with a bit f mod based on the commercial plug-in from WP E-Commerce’s author.

Cheers,

Eric

Hi Guys,

image library

I have just worked out a simple way to search tags, via the SQL-generated tag cloud. It’s just a couple of SQL queries.

I will work out now to do multiple tag selection via tickboxes. Something like generating [tags=MBL, Boston, 2008, WSC] via multiple-tickboxes selection.

But, ya, it would be great if Alex would be able to implement a tag cloud which works with the WP tag system.

Cheers,

Eric

updated the php in 1st post, to make it more “tag cloud”-like..

<?php
global $wpdb;
$results  =$wpdb->get_results(
		  ' SELECT tagid as tagID , count( tagid ) as tagCount , taggs.name as tagName, taggs.slug as tagSlug '
        . ' FROM wp_ngg_pic2tags picstags , wp_ngg_tags taggs '
        . ' where taggs.id = picstags.tagid '
        . ' group BY tagid ');
foreach ($results as $row) {

echo "<span style=\"font-size:". (1.6*(log((20000*($row->tagCount)))))."px;\"><a href=\"http://www.canberrapictorial.com.au/image?tags=".$row->tagSlug."\">".$row->tagName."</a></span>";
echo " | ";
}

?>

it’s dumb, but any thoughts as to how it make the cloud not blown up of proportion if it gets too big in numbers?

I have come up with

• auto generate all tags from ngg database
• auto generate images by tags

First, you need to create 2 posts. One for generating all the tags, and one for displaying the images.

Let’s begin.

Below code loops through NGG’s tag database table to extract all tags onto a post. It creates a link for each of the tags generated. Obviously you need to change the address to make it yours. “image” is a category in my WP.

<?
global $wpdb;
$results = $wpdb->get_results('SELECT name, slug FROM wp_ngg_tags');
foreach ($results as $row) {

echo "<a href=http://www.canberrapictorial.com.au/image?tags=";
echo $row->slug;
echo ">";
echo $row->name;
echo "</a> | ";
}

?>

Second, create another post with below PHP

<?php
if ($_REQUEST["tags"] <> "")
{

echo $_REQUEST["tags"];

echo "[tags=";
echo $_REQUEST["tags"];
echo "]";

} else echo "no images found via this tag";

?>

Then you are good to go!.

Have fun.