sgclark

Hi.

Are there any updates on this request?

Thanks for the additional details on both questions.

Regarding the “Previous” and “Next” item, since I have 15 ‘gallery pages’, I just added mla_end_size="8" to the shortcode and that way, whenever someone is on a page, both “Prev” and “Next” will show unless they are on the first or last page (which would be an expected UX).

I pushed MLA’s pagination out to the main NCAA gallery on my site (https://www.sgclark.com/wallpapers/ncaa) to ‘kick the tires’ and see if it is a better way to get to the different items in the gallery. And I will try out the Alpha approach you linked to.

Thanks for all your attention and help here.

We can close this out!

Thank you
Stephen

This is awesome!!

I’ve been playing around with all of this and the ‘test’ gallery with pagination is looking great. You can see it at the link below. I put 150 in the previous sample just as a placeholder. That was way too many, as you implied. I reduced the number of images to 51 per page but I’m still at 15 gallery pages!

https://www.sgclark.com/test-ncaa-gallery/

For the Pagination on the top of the gallery I have
[mla_gallery media_category=ncaa posts_per_page=51 mla_output="paginate_links, prev_next"]

For the Pagination on the bottom, I have
[mla_gallery media_category=ncaa posts_per_page=51 mla_output="paginate_links, show_all"]

I do have a couple of minor questions:

1. Is it possible to “merge” the two methods I note above so I have the Previous/Next links (prev_next) displayed along with all the links to each gallery page (show_all) rather than the truncated view at the top? I tried a few combinations and nothing seemed to work.

2. From reading the specs, I got the sense I could possibly change/substitute the numerical pagination (1,2.3…) to Alpha (Ab-Be, Be-Sa,…). Is that in fact possible?

I’m sure I’ll have other questions but that should be it for now. This may be ready for prime-time! ??

Thanks
Stephen

OK. So something is not working. I put the shortcode

[mla_gallery media_category=ncaa posts_per_page=150 mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next"]

Into the WordPress/Gutenberg “Short Code” field however it is only outputting the pagination/links to the different paginated “pieces” of the gallery. No images are showing up. Aplogies if I’m being dense and missing something.

See link below:
https://www.sgclark.com/test-ncaa-gallery/

Ah, ok. Got it. Yeah that makes sense. The slug for that category (ID 2579) is NCAA. So its

[mla_gallery media_category=atlantic-sun posts_per_page=40 mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next"]

Very cool. I’ll start playing with this and see if this can work with my galleries! Thanks so much for clarifying!

Stephen

Hi

Thanks for the response. I followed the 6 steps to add “Media Categories” (media_category) to MLA, however you lost me on the 2nd to last paragraph (Now you can add…).

Is this what you mean? Please see screen shot below.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3mgywnssgc3dkmw/Screen%20Shot%202021-04-26%20at%209.34.53%20AM.png?dl=0

So if this is correct, how does this now manifest itself into the [mla_gallery...] short code? So thinking about the example I provided earlier, I was interested in making the gallery on the “NCAA” page a multi-paged gallery. The ‘media_category’ ID for that is 2579.

How would the MLA Gallery short code now be configured? How would I specify/call the images in that specific category based on the previous example (id=2579) to make a paginated gallery?

[mla_gallery media_category=media_category ]

[mla_gallery media_category=2579 posts_per_page=40 mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next"]

I will hack around with this on my side but any further detail and context would be appreciated.

Thanks
Stephen

Hey Anders,

I downloaded your Chaplin theme and started playing around with that too (clearly, I enjoy the aesthetic of your themes. :P).

Just an FYI that I’m seeing the same navigation issue in Chaplin as we were discussing here with Eksell. I also downloaded Hamilton but didn’t see it there. Have not downloaded any other of your themes.

thanks
Stephen

Awesome! Thank you!

Hi Leo,

That CSS code has been removed.

The next and previous links now appear stacked on top of each other, just below the tags of the post.

I had that CSS there as I prefer to have them flush left and right respectively. And was hoping to put the arrow on the right hand side to the right of the post name.

thanks
Stephen

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by sgclark.

Wow, you work quickly. Saw you just updated it!

My host is pushing back on me that it is a server issue. Their awesomeness noted previously is officially redacted. ??

I’ve seen that bug before with other themes so I know it is not something specific to my WP install and seems to be a server situation.

sgc

Also, I’m going to alert my web host about this. I have no idea how they configured the servers my site is on (a bit beyond my knowledge base) but I am sure they can address it. I use SiteGround and they are pretty awesome.

Funny thing is that now that I think about it, I recall seeing this same bug before but never considered that it was a server configuration issue.

Thanks again.
Stephen

Anytime. Thanks for taking a look.

sgc

OK. It is switched over to your theme. Please let me know when you are done so I can switch it back. Sorry for the delay in response. Got distracted with that thing called work. ??

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by sgclark.

My site is here:

https://www.sgclark.com/

I am using a child theme of the base GeneratePress theme currently.

I don’t have your theme activated however I can do so temporarily if that would be helpful.

OK. That is a fair perspective (whether or not to use ‘old’ WP uploads/y/m structure).

Right now, I have an ample amount of images in the /uploads/ folder and likely just as many in the ‘old’ /uploads/year/month taxonomy. And I’d like to clean it up and bring it back into some sort of order.

I guess I need to figure out which direction to go and to stick with it.

I did sync MLF but didn’t see the images from the /uploads/ folder so got frustrated. Will try it again and see what happens.

Appreciate the quick response!

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by sgclark.