direys

Ah! There’s the head slap. Thank you kind sir. I’ll make a button for my browser since I don’t know how to make one on the WP Admin screen and will forever clearly specify underscores from dashes! It works wonderfully. Our NextGEN photos are now organized by tags neatly compiled within our custom tag groups headings.

I have created about 12 groups. On the WP Tags page where I would normally apply them to groups, none of the NG tags show up. My normal WP tags are there but they are not tied to the images in NG so it does not good to group them. In the “manage tags” section of NG there is not option for applying the tags to groups.

Going to https://direys.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=ngg-tag it returns a response of “Invalid Taxonomy”.

Thanks for the reply Chris.
I have written a large number of tags via the NextGEN gallery window when editing the photos. It is acting as if it is unrelated to the WP tag system though the NextGEN developer says that they base their tag system on the underlying WP system. Under your Tag Groups Settings–Basics–Taxonomies I have four listed taxonomies, category,post-tag,post-format and ngg-tag. I have deselected all but the ngg-tag in an attempt to get rid of potential confusion. The ngg tags won’t show up in the main tag area where I would have the opportunity to group them via your plugin. It would be very beneficial to be able to have the tags grouped for my customers when searching our photographs. Thanks for your help.

I will contact you through your website and we can continue discussion through private email. Thanks for your help ??

I look forward to it! Thanks – have fun!

Thanks for the links and the information about taxonomies. I think defining some new taxonomies is definitely the way I want to go. I’m happy to learn to use PHP, if that’s what’s required to make this happen – most plugins I find are for use on posts, not media items. The first article showed some PHP and I think I can read it fairly well, I just don’t know exactly what functions I’d have access to or would want to call. And I still have no idea where I would insert that code. What are you willing to teach me? ??

Thanks for your reply, David. (Sorry I got your name wrong ?? )

I have some limited programming experience, mostly with excel formulas. (I’ve also written some c++ programs and JASS scripts, although that was many years ago now)

I think you’re right on the taxonomies. I’d certainly prefer a hierarchical, limited vocabulary option for managing my filters – I just couldn’t figure out how to set those up. (I thought the custom fields was the way to do it) Categories didn’t quite seem like the right method to me – I want each photo to have a designated “species” but I don’t want to be able to search “show me all photos categorized as ‘species’ ” … does that make sense?

I’d love some clear instruction on how to set up taxonomies and where to apply shortcode, and how to read/parse it. (I assume that’s how I would get what I need to show filters on the front end of my website)

Thanks again for your help,
-Jessi