Comments on: Media Tags 2.0 Beta

By: Paul Menard

Paul Menard — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:50:03 +0000

Comments are now closed on this Post as this was only open for the Media-Tags beta version. Please refer to the official Media-Tags 2.0 Release post where you will be able to enter comments. http://www.codehooligans.com/2009/07/15/media-tags-20-released/

By: Paul Menard

Paul Menard — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:48:44 +0000

Violeta I just posted the official 2.0 release of the Media-Tags plugin. I would definitely download the official release from the WordPress plugin page http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-tags/

As for you shortcode code I would also try a lower-case ‘activity’. as this is the ‘slug’ for the media tag not the upper/lower-case name for the mediatag. Once you download the official release make comments to the new post on this site for issues http://www.codehooligans.com/2009/07/15/media-tags-20-released/ as I will be closing this beta post comments. Thanks!

By: Violeta

Violeta — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:46:37 +0000

Oh bummer. Darn browsers never know what I mean to say I enclosed the [media-tags ...] within an unordered list.

By: Violeta

Violeta — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:45:01 +0000

Oops. To clarify, I meant that I added the include_one line you gave above directly to the php file using the WP file editor. Then used the shortcode in the page editor. Actually, I used [media-tags ...].

By: Violeta

Violeta — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:41:46 +0000

Paul, thanks for the quick reply! Hmm. Still not working for me. Here’s what I’m trying in a page:
[media-tags media_tags="Activity"]
where I have two Media Library documents tagged as “Activity”. I added the line above directly within WP. Should I maybe download the plugin again and re-install it? Also, are there any restrictions on the type of files I can tag and use in pages? The two files I’m trying to list are both PDF.
Thanks again so much for developing this awesome plugin!

By: Paul Menard

Paul Menard — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:46:09 +0000

Ah Violeta it appears I forgot to add the include statement at the top of the main media_tags.php file.

include_once ( dirname(__FILE__) . “/mediatags_shortcodes.php”);

By: Paul Menard

Paul Menard — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:11:24 +0000

Hmm. This was working. I might have broken something with the shortcodes as I was moving files around. Give me a few to investigate. I’m actually working on final tests this evening along with new documentation on the changes.

By: Violeta

Violeta — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:37:54 +0000

Hi Paul, I installed the new plugin (thanks!) and then tried the shortcode in a page, but it just gets displayed as text. What could I be doing wrong? Do I need to have anything else installed for the shortcode to work?

By: Paul Menard

Paul Menard — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:11:40 +0000

@Moth Menace: Thanks man. As for your last comment I do need to leave some features for future. Seriously though when it comes to API hooks available inside wp-admin media section things are rather limited.

Curious abut your testing setup. Did you install this as an upgrade to an existing site making heavy use of the media tagged items? Just trying to make sure the upgrade processing works flawlessly. It’s my biggest concern.

By: Moth Menace

Moth Menace — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:07:19 +0000

Hi Paul, many apologies, I didn’t look at the mediatags-template-sample.php properly, and realise that the post loop functions perfectly well! I’ve been testing since you launched & no problems at all, just needs some documentation and then it’s an amazing plugin, thanks again.

If I had OCD, I’d ask that the tag-adding form under the attachment was a replica of the main Post tagging panel, but that’s far from essential.