Folder Structure And other customizations
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Hi There-
I’m hoping this finds someone who has worked with this plugin enough to help me with some customization as well as settings and folder structure.
I have a client that has over 20K photo assets using a PHP photo Gallery called Coppermine. In short we want to roll all of the content into a wordpress photo gallery.
The gallery must support search, custom fields for things like ( Location/base, year, Author etc…)
Albums must be placed in their own folder structure given the nature of his content so something like this tree below might make sense
<ul><h2> SITE SECTIONS</h2> <li>Marines</li> <li>Air Force</li> <li>Navy</li> <li>Department of Defense</li> </ul>Inside one section of the site say for example Marines he will have about 60-70 albums
<ul> <li>Album 1</li> <li>Album 2</li> <li>Album 3</li> <li>etc...</li> </ul>Each section of the site will have a similar structure where albums for each section need to be contained in their own folder structure.
I have set the site up in multisite to try and parse out some of the overhead that the photos will take up.
So the way that WordPress structures MultiSites is as followsWP-Content
Blogs.dir
1
2
3
4Each number represents a “folder structure” in the wp-content folder. So lets say for example folder 2 is the marines section of the website.
What I need is something like the following
<ul> WP-Content </ul> <ul> <li>Blogs.dir</li> </ul> <ul> <li> 1</li> <li>2</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Album 1</li> <li> Album 2</li> <li> Album 3 </li> <li> Etc...</li> <li>3</li> <li> 4</li> </ul>All of the images of the albums need to be in their own folder just given the fact that he has 20K assets
I have tried Next-Gen and it does a good job of the file structure but lacks the ability of search and my client needs search for this gallery. I don’t care if we have to use the tags field for search criteria but I need some field within the album that is searchable via the wordpress search.
I understand that if you are in the Marines section of the site that it wont be able to search in the airforce galleries but that is actually the preferred method per my client.
Also, I’m not to fond of the way that WP-Photos plus organizes the page and I’m not sure if I’m just doing something weird in the setup or if its just so overwhelming that I’m not able to comprehend the interface because I’m already overloaded with trying a variety of photo albums.
Here is a screenshot that I put together of the ideal situation of the page layout and I think WP-Photos plus can do this I’m just not sure where I’m going wrong
https://i.imgur.com/b46tOFx.png
The general layout is something where you go to the Marines section of the website and the landing page you see is all of the albums in that section of the site.
In theory it would be pagenated so 20 albums at one time?
When you click on the album it takes you to ONLY that album for you to flip through each image, so Album 1 could have 200-300+ photos in that one album of which again is pagenated. Showing 20 thumbnails at one time?
Each thumbnail on this page should have a title and an author showing.
When you click on that image it opens in a light box and you see more detail i.e Tags, Description, base etc… Any fields that I want to show should be shown.Lastly, given the nature of the quantity of photos, is there a way for me to upload the folder structure and then key off the file name to do some behind the scenes SQL queries to change titles and descriptions. I have all that rich data from Coppermine, but it appears that when I upload a photo via WP-Photos plus it changes the file name on the server to incremental numbers so I have uploaded images that have specific file names but when I look via FTP they have all changed to an incremental number which is not going to work.
I’m really hoping that someone has done this because I’m on my last whim here before I change technologies all together.
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