Shortcode demo setup

Hello @runamuk0,

You should not setup a taxonomy in case you need just years and months. Just use:

[gallery monthnum="12" year="2015"]

The shortcode works when the feature is activated on Media Settings > Taxonomies > Options > Gallery > Enhanced Gallery.

Best,
-Nadia

So where does it get the year and month? Is it the upload date or something else? I need it to be my data because I have older media that I am adding now.

Yes, it’s the upload date. It is based on WP media library default filters. In case you need a different classification you can create two – photo_year and photo_month – or one – photo_date – taxonomies, for example. Then your shortcode should look like this:

[gallery photo_year=%term_id% photo_month=%term_id%]

At the moment EML doesn’t understand slugs and names of terms, but I guess, we add the support for those in some of upcoming releases.

Best,
-Nadia

How does the category setup work? Is it hierarchical like:

photo_year
2008
2009
2010
2011

photo_month
1
2
3
…

Yes, like this. You can use any text for month and years, for example:

Dates:
January 2016
February 2016
…

Months:
Jan
Feb
…

Any view you need. But you can use these terms with their IDs, not their slugs right now. So, if:

Months:
Jan (slug: jan, ID: 5)
Feb (slug: feb, ID: 7)
…

The you should use ID in shortcode:

[gallery photo_month="5"]

for images from January. Not much intuitive, though :). We will add slugs support definitely in one of the future releases.

Best,
-Nadia