A simple list of files with a mini icon next to it.

The nearest I have got to is ……

[mla_gallery post_mime_type=”application/pdf” size=icon mla_caption=”{+title+}” attachment_category=”eden-house-schedule” mla_itemwidth=”auto” mla_float=”left” mla_image_attributes=”width=16 height=16 ” link=”file” columns=”1″ orderby=”date DESC”]

But the gallery-caption is on a sepearte line feed if you will. I just want a simple succint list of files with a litle ico next to them. I can see myself using this plugin lots of other ways – but for now this problem is most puzzling.

Ive read about making my own style template – but this flumoxes me somewhat. The problem for me is that this plugin has so much capability – but I’m a complete fool!

OK so have created a template and its sort of working however now i seem to have style which is from my style.css which is causing me a problem…

.entry-content img, .content-sidebar img, .comment-content img {
margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;

so I want to overide this margin to be ….

margin: 0px 0px -0.4em; for example but am lost at this … I have tried to add this to the template but haven’t had much joy.

The site in question is here.

OK that last message was utter rubbish…. but still completely confused.

style list ….

<style type=’text/css’>
#[+selector+] {
margin: auto;
width: 100%;
}
#[+selector+] .gallery-item {
float: right;
margin: 0px 0px -0.4em;
text-align: center;
width: [+itemwidth+];
}
#[+selector+] .gallery-item .gallery-icon img {
margin: 0px 0px -0.4em;
border-bottom:none;
border:10px;
padding:1px;
}
#[+selector+] .gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
vertical-align: top;
}
/* see mla_gallery_shortcode() in media-library-assistant/includes/class-mla-shortcodes.php */
</style>

The messed around in item markup and now have ….

<[+itemtag+] class=’gallery-item [+last_in_row+]’>
<[+icontag+] class=’gallery-icon [+orientation+]’>
[+link+][+caption+]
</[+icontag+]>
</[+itemtag+]>

but getting confused so giving up.

Thanks for your questions and for all of the details you have added as you worked through the development of your [mla_gallery] shortcode. You are clearly making progress. Thanks as well for the link to your site, which is very helpful.

Your struggles with the CSS margin: style look like an unfortunate conflict with some code in the MLA plugin that attempts to make up for a bad design decision back in the early MLA versions. I looked at the HTML generated for your site and I think MLA is deleting the margin: style you are adding to your mla_style template – not your fault!

I think you can avoid this problem in one of two ways. First, you can try splitting the style into individual components, i.e.:

margin-top: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-bottom: 1.5em;
margin-right: 0px;

You can also suppress the MLA-generated styles completely and put the styles you want in your theme’s stylesheet. Add mla_style=none to your shortcode for that alternative.

To limit your list to the six most recent documents you can add posts_per_page=6 to your shortcode. You already have the right orderby parameter in place.

To get the icon and the caption on the same line you can try adding mla_image_attributes='align="left"' to the shortcode. You can also try something like mla_link_text='{+filelink+}{+title+}' if you want the title/caption text to be part of the link.

I am traveling and without access to my development system so I have been unable to test these suggestions. I regret any mistakes I may have made and hope you can adapt them to your application. I will return home on October 7 and can be more helpful after that.

I will leave this topic unresolved until I hear back from you. I hope the above will get you closer to your goal; you are doing well so far.

Thanks for your patience, your understanding and for your interest in the plugin.

It has been a month since my last post here and I have not seen anything further from you on the topic. I assume you have found a solution to your file list/icon display application.

I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you are still having trouble with these MLA features. Thank you for your interest in the plugin.