denl

I an having the same problems. Trying to publish via quick edit doesnt work either sadly.

Den

Thank you for the link but that page is all about using gallery shortcodes, my question is about using and working with single-catablog-items.php.

thank you for your time anyway.

My site is an art site and I’m using catablog to show different galleries. But I don’t want to show all the paintings on one page as you’d get if you used a shortcode, I want to see one item at a time.

So in my sidebar I have a shortcode that loads all the items from one category as thumbnail images to create a menu. When you click one it loads just that one catablog item in the main page using the single-catablog-items.php file. It works really well. Here is an example https://www.deniselaurent.co.uk/the-paintings/milly-many-coats/

But I’d like to use a different layout for some items. I think single-catablog-items.php uses the single layout template? So I thought I could find a way to tell it to switch templates and use a different one for a different category. But I can’t work out where or how you do that. Maybe it’s in the programming somewhere (in which case that’s too complicated to touch) or maybe I’m missing something really obvious. I’m not sure which! ??

But shortcodes don’t work for single item display do they? Or is there a way to use a shortcode to display just one item?

As far as I understand it for showing a single item on a page its using single-catablog-items.php. Essentially I want a single-catablog-items2.php file and a way for switching between them depending on the category. But I just can’t work it out.

Thanks I think I’ll do that. Although I’m not sure there will be a fix, from what I’ve read so far you won’t be able to use shortcodes in an input tag. ??

Thanks Iramom. Trouble is my whole site is now broken. ?? I was wondering if I could generate the input tag and the page title as a function, so it becomes one function. I think that would work because it wouldn’t be in the html as such because it would be putting the html in, if you understand me.
But I can’t work out any way to do it as I don’t know php. I only know enough to copy what somebody else has done a maybe tweak it a little.

I have a similar problem and really need to know how to fix it. I have this little form on every page of my site and use a simple shortcode to get the name of the page and pop it in the form. Now that wordpress has updated it doesn’t work so the whole site is broken. I’ve tried changing double to single quotes but neither works.

<input type=hidden name=itemname value='[page_title] 11x8 Unmounted Print'>

can you help?
regards
Denise

Thanks very much for checking, I really appreciate it. I thought that might be the problem though. I’ll ask in the catablog support as you suggest.

Thank you

Den

It works fine everywhere else, pages and posts. Just not with catablog. But catablog is a fairly old plugin now so maybe that’s why.

Yes everything else works fine, it was just the page I was editing when the spell checker generated errors. the odd thing is, if I duplicate that page the duplicate also has the same problem. If I copy the html and paste it into a new page it’s fine.

I’m wrong! The damaged page now has a save as draft button! yay! ??

I’ve followed the instructions but to be honest i don’t understand the result. Sorry! It’s a bit beyond my level.

I’ve remade my page from scratch as a new page and that one is fine, all the wordpress furniture is there. So I’ll just delete the old one and hope it doesn’t happen again. Its very weird though, its as if all ability to edit that file has just gone.

Thanks anyway

Den

I’m having the same problem. Only have one web site but Live Site Activity, All Hits and Humans do not load at all, just the spinning icon.

Thanks Marcus!!!!! That worked a treat. ??

What a fabulous plugin this is! Thank you so much. Yes i do have a large number of catablog pages but I’d have happily worked through them all for the convenience of using preserved mark up. It so worth it!

Thanks again!

Den

Ah! No that was me not explaining myself very well. I wasn’t working on a catablog page, I was working on a normal wp page in draft mode and looking at it in preview mode, and I had comments in there for my own reference, so I guess that’s why I got all those nested code tags. Plus I’d been trying to get the html in the page to work properly for hours until I came looking for a solution and found your amazing plugin. So I was proably crosseyed as well. ?? But I deleted the page, tried it again, and it worked perfectly. And thank you!!!!! It’s a god send!

The catablog item pages are not updating when I use Fix post or fix page, so I have some missing p’s and br’s in them. All the actual wp pages and posts have updated, its just this custom post type that hasn’t. But just in case I’m missing something obvious, you say theu should be listed under Writing : “Configure New Line Behavior Per Post Type” but I only see fix pages and fix posts there, no custom post types. Should there be a Fix custom post types as well?

thanks for your help, its much appreciated

Den