NolanD626

You should see a clients tab in the dashboard. You have to create a client before any documents or it won’t really work the way it is meant to work. If you don’t see it there might be a conflict with some other code.

Which SEO program and theme do you use? I haven’t really dedicated time into testing this using any other plugins. I might have had to work it around a few other plugins that I’ve used and maybe I haven’t updated the version of the plugin yet to provide said workaround.

thanks. yes the plugin is still a work in progress. I have a ton of feature ideas for this project, but my own need for this and the time to develop further is scarce at the moment due to other projects and financial obligations. Custom Post Types are quite useful though. Glad this helped you out. Feel free to contribute to this plugin if you have anything to add to it email me a zip file.

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Maybe like how buddypress has you define where the necessary pages are located?

Sorry Nicole, it might not work without some mods to the code for this plugin or following the same structure as me. Let me see what I can do to make it work with other permalink structures. I could make an option menu that might allow you to define a custom structure. No promises, but it does work without categories. Maybe consider a MU WordPress setup and use it in a seperate install altogether. You could always iframe it back to your main site.

You might even just need to refresh your permalinks or change your perm link structure to suit the plugin or mod the plugin to suit your perm link structure.

I use the post name format or use the .html on pages plugin.

I’ll be glad to help, but you’ll have to be a little more descriptive of the error. Are you seeing an error message which could help me debug it for you? This plugin can run both in the frontend and backend, by default it is a mostly meant to be a backend (admin side) plugin, so if you need me to take a look contact me via email and we can setup a temporary WP login so I can take a better look.

It’s probably some simple error which I can help you work out, or work out for you.

Thanks,

Nolan
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Okay here’s what I think it is.

The post title is automatically generated from the album title metafield(at the very top of the create album admin page).

The first time you update or publish the post the WP Post title is set using the top meta field (the label for it might be messed up but very top).

i.e the album was saved without a title and then the title was later updated. which saved that album post by ID number instead of the title. And updating it won’t help.

this is your current output on one messed up link…

<div id="right"><p id="odd"></p><p class="title">Landscaped front entryway</p><a href="347"><img width="300" border="0" height="300" class="rounded-half" title="" alt="" src="https://nat-land.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/179_1944x1296.jpg"></a><p></p></div>

Which should have processed something like this…

<div id="right"><p id="odd"></p><p class="title">Landscaped front entryway</p><a href="landscaped-front-entryway"><img width="300" border="0" height="300" class="rounded-half" title="" alt="" src="https://nat-land.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/179_1944x1296.jpg"></a><p></p></div>

which should give a page at this address

https://nat-land.com/portfolio/landscaped-front-entryway

but it appears to 404 probably because that post is saved by id, which will not load the template. The template is loaded when the post type matches based on url format.

Basically delete that album repost a new one and it will probably work but it might or might not append the address of the album depending on how the album was orignally saved. You might end up with and address like this.

https://nat-land.com/portfolio/landscaped-front-entryway-2

Basically start with the album title first in case you publish it on accident and it should work.

BTW glad to see someone else got it working and styled fairly well for them. Kudos to you.

One key piece of advice that I don’t mean to sound rude about but get rid of that comic sans font, in my own opinion I like comic sans but it’s generally hated and is statistically proven to be the least effective font in professional sales presentations.

Sans Serif Fonts look much more clean modern and professional.

OpenSans and Droid Sans look super clean in this portfolio plugin.

Yes, there are quite a few errors in verbose debugging, yet the plugin runs in standard mode for the most part no problems acroos many themes. lots of $ to @$ and if to ifset to be done to make it debug perfect probably a few more serious problems depending on your config. Earlier versions were debugging much cleaner but more functions is more code to fully validate.

This plugin isn’t meant to be an “out of the box solution” for everyone. It’s open source and I haven’t made a single dollar off this, so for now you’ll have to work the plugin to your exact needs the hard way. For me it works great.

But look at how WP runs and what it can do, and look at what this script can do to WP. Somewhere between the two is a huge solution worth developing upon. Feel free to contribute or hit me up if you have feature requests or if you need more info on customization.

Thanks,
Nolan

FYI the css file is way buggy. It’s okay on the stock 2010/11 theme and a few various themes but you’ll def need to tweak it yourself to be perfect with your theme.

The folder structure of the raw files is labeled well enough to get it.

I’ve been displaying the reviews in full width footer widget. Depending on where you what them you’ll need to adjust some hardcoded PHP in your theme. If you don’t know much CSS, Firebug and IE dev tools will be your best friend in learning what adjustments to make, just start with adjusting for IE first and the rest gets easier from there.

There is a single-review file which when you copy it to your theme folder will display just one specific review.

(ie. /reviews/some_1.html)

There is also an all reviews template file which when you copy it into the theme will display all reviews on one page. Depending on the number of reviews you are posting, and your server power you might have errors displaying every review. (With netsol shared hosting over 100 reviews bugs out). You might need to limit the amount, it won’t be all reviews, but you can do a huge chunk of reviews all on one page.

(ie. the filtered reviews page on yelp without a captcha and a noindex tag, except you run it on your own site)

(ie. yoursite.com/allreviews.html)

On Line 24

<?php 	$args = array('post_type' => 'reviews', 'numberposts' => 100, 'orderby' => 'rand' );

You can adjust the number of reviews to pull and also the order of reviews, by default this is set to rand (self explainitory).

The other options are asc (ascending) or desc (obviously).

Coming someday soon:

Global/Customs Links on the Reviews
Shortcodes (display one specific or a category of reviews)
Sort reviews by query string or page title.
Global Settings Admin Menu
A whole bunch of general improvements, when I can invest more time.

Hope this helps,
Nolan

Hey Arowls,

Glad to help, I had stated that I would be posting an update to this soon and haven’t gotten to it yet, what pays the bills take priority. Next release will be much more stable, fully cross platform browser/theme/plugin compatible, and way more functional. Google loves reviews and especially in when they are in the proper format, especially microformats (the cool trick that show stars on yelp landing pages in google search). Reviews have huge strength when it comes to SEO, it’s a goldmine. Places currently shows my sites in “reviews on the web” by running this plugin. If you have any feature requests or ideas on how to improve further please post.

Thanks,
Nolan.

ahhh! I know exactly what this problem is. I just gotta find it. There is a null parameter that is supposed to be passed with something as a callback. I’ll have a solution soon.

On line 147 of the reviews_type.php file change this

function add_reviews_metadata(){
        add_meta_box('reviews_metadata', __('Review Details', 'unf_reviews_metadata'), 'reviews_metadata', 'reviews');
}

to this

function add_reviews_metadata(){
        add_meta_box('unf_reviews_metadata', __('Review Details', 'unf_reviews_metadata'), 'unf_reviews_metadata', 'reviews');
}

I’ll update the svn tonight if you prefer to download the files instead of edit them yourself.

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ahhh! I know exactly what this problem is. I just gotta find it. There is a null parameter that is supposed to be passed with something as a callback. I’ll have a solution soon.

As of now it would be somewhat messy to call a photo with php within your theme you basically would need to create a special php page template and it would be tedious at best.

Give me some time to make some updates and I will let you know when a shortcode feature is ready.

As of now, no. The photos and albums are contained within a portfolio and album template files and cannot be called without writing some php within your template.

I can whip up something in the near future to where you can display an album or photo in a widget.

A shortcode might also be an option, but I’ll need to make some updates for the plugin to do that.