• Resolved jondhill

    (@jondhill)


    This plugin is fantastic! I can’t thank you enough for sharing it. I have it working on a new site that includes a “Resources” page displaying PDFs using mla. It works great!

    We want to include YouTube videos among the Resources shown. Can you recommend a way to include videos in the library/gallery that are actually stored elsewhere, like YouTube? I can imagine wanting to include HTML pages someday too.

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  • Plugin Author David Lingren

    (@dglingren)

    Thanks for the positive feedback and for your question. As the name implies, MLA adds functionality to the WordPress Media Library and helps you manage and display items contained in it. The are no explicit MLA features for dealing with media assets stored elsewhere, such as YouTube videos.

    If you search the WordPress plugin repository using keyword “YouTube” you will find the many, many plugins developed to support this application. I know there are similar plugins for other image, audio and video services as well. I do not have any direct experience with any of these plugins.

    That said, you could use MLA as a small part of a more custom solution. The [mla_gallery] shortcode will work with any WordPress post type and post status. You could develop a custom post type for resources like videos, add taxonomy terms and custom field values to organize them and then use [mla_gallery] to display filtered galleries for them. You would have to weigh the work required against the added value of a custom solution.

    I am marking this topic resolved simply because I’ve answered the question to the best of my ability. Thanks again for your interest in the plugin and for your kind words. I wish you every success with your application(s); let me know if you need help with any MLA-specific part of them.

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