Strange behaviors from tag cloud/gallery

Thanks for your question and for all the work you’ve done to find the source of the problem. Thanks as well for the link to your example page; very helpful.

Your instinct about spaces was a good one. If you look at the URLs behind the links in your tag cloud you will see that the spaces and other special characters are not properly URL-encoded. There’s no good reason to use the name field for your application. You would be better off using the slug, which is sanitized in a way that fits URL encoding rules. You could also try changing {+name+} to {+name,url+} to properly encode that values, but I don’t see this having any advantage over just using the slug.

I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you have problems or further questions regarding the above suggestions. Thanks for your interest in the plugin.

I used name instead better readability for visitors and in site activity but slug is probably close enough.

Unfortunately changing all instances of name to slug in the code broke all of the multiword tags including those that were working as name…

‘[mla_gallery]
post_mime_type=”none”
mla_nolink_text=”{+template:(<h2>Images tagged with {+request:current_slug+}</h2>)+}”
[/mla_gallery]’

[mla_gallery]
tax_query= "array ( array ( 'taxonomy' => 'attachment_tag', 'field' => 'slug', 'terms' => array( {+request:current_slug+} ) ) )"
post_mime_type=image
orderby=date order=DESC
mla_caption=' '
columns=5 posts_per_page=20 size=thumbnail link=file 
[/mla_gallery]

[mla_gallery]
mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next"
mla_link_class="nav-links"
tax_query= "array ( array ( 'taxonomy' => 'attachment_tag', 'field' => 'slug', 'terms' => array( {+request:current_slug+} ) ) )"
post_mime_type=image
posts_per_page=20
[/mla_gallery]

[mla_tag_cloud]
taxonomy=attachment_tag post_mime_type=image
mla_link_href="/images-by-tags/?current_slug={+slug+}"
minimum=2 number=200 smallest=8 largest=16 separator=' - '
[/mla_tag_cloud]

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by lastqa.

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by lastqa.

Thanks for your update with the updated shortcodes and problem report. I have copied your shortcodes to my system and made some changes that should give you better results.

The immediate problem is the array( {+request:current_slug+} ) parameter in your tax_query. replacing that with '{+request:current_slug+}' works fine; note the single quotes enclosing the substitution parameter.

However, you can replace the entire tax_query with a simple taxonomy query, attachment_tag={+request:current_slug+}. That works fine, too, and is somewhat shorter.

You can also improve your heading by adding the term name to your tag cloud shortcode. Here are my versions of your shortcodes:

<h2>[mla_gallery ids=1 mla_nolink_text="{+template:(Images tagged with {+request:current_name+})+}"][/mla_gallery]</h2>

[mla_gallery]
attachment_tag={+request:current_slug+}
orderby=date order=DESC
mla_caption=' ' columns=5 posts_per_page=20 size=thumbnail link=file
[/mla_gallery]

[mla_gallery]
mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next"
mla_link_class="nav-links"
attachment_tag={+request:current_slug+}
posts_per_page=20
[/mla_gallery]

[mla_tag_cloud]
taxonomy=attachment_tag post_mime_type=image
mla_link_href="/images-by-tags/?current_slug={+slug+}&current_name={+name,url+}"
minimum=2 number=200 smallest=8 largest=16 separator=' - '
[/mla_tag_cloud]

Give those update a try and let me know how they work for you. Thanks for your persistence.

Your code worked perfect! I think I’m learning, slowly but couldn’t at all without your help. Thank you!