http://smashly.net/community/ Smashly Community Forums » Tag: Categories - Recent Posts en Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:10:13 +0000 http://smashly.net/community/topic/category-usage-in-ps-custom-fields#post-77 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:19:07 +0000 byron 77@http://smashly.net/community/ <p>You're correct...currently no way to query images by category. This will have to be a special gallery type (like a Contributor gallery is a special type) that will accept (or look for current category) and query the DB for images with a specific category.</p> <p>I'm trying to decide what to do about categories. WP 2.8 brings up the ability to do custom taxonomies, so that's an option. The other thing I'm considering is doing a table to store categories by image so you can multiple cats and query on that. </p> http://smashly.net/community/topic/category-usage-in-ps-custom-fields#post-73 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:21:10 +0000 lee 73@http://smashly.net/community/ <p>Hi Byron. </p> <p>The href='/?cat=[your-field-name]' works to get the category number. and the link works to bring up the default category page in WP. Working without the name for now is OK. I can create a document called 'category-4.php' and this page is successfully loaded with the actual WP category name at the top. </p> <p>I can get a PS gallery into the category page with no problem, however, I dont see a way to query by category so only images under that category are displayed. It still seems like that there is no property in the [Photosmash] shortcode that would allow me to only display images from a certain category. can you verify this? Is there a way to send a modified [photosmash] shortcode that would return only images from a certain category?</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Lee </p> http://smashly.net/community/topic/category-usage-in-ps-custom-fields#post-69 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:59:04 +0000 byron 69@http://smashly.net/community/ <p>Lee,</p> <p>Truth is that the category support hasn't been built out in PS yet. I originally put it in for the custom work I did for some others. Those sites were using a custom implementation of the "create a new post" functionality coming in PS Extend, and I needed to get a category to assign to the newly created post, and that's why they're in the form right now.</p> <p>I've been trying to figure out what to do with them from the PhotoSmash side. Posts is easy, but when it comes to images and galleries, it's a bit trickier. I'm working on random galleries right now (hope to have it out the door in a few days), and I'm having to write special code for each Special Gallery (contributor galleries, random galleries, newest images, highest rated, by category, by tag, etc, etc).</p> <p>So, random galleries is coming up...the others need to follow on soon, but I also want to get PS Extend out the door, and that's going to be involved...arrrgggg.</p> <p>Anyway, right now, I think you should be able to use it in Custom Layouts by creating a link manually, something like: href='/?cat=[your-field-name]' Unfortunately, I don't give you any way to get the category name right now.</p> <p>Hope that helps.<br /> BB </p> http://smashly.net/community/topic/category-usage-in-ps-custom-fields#post-68 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:07:23 +0000 lee 68@http://smashly.net/community/ <p>Hi Byron,</p> <p>Question on using Categories. I created a Custom Field that was configured as 'Category Drop Down - drop down of all WP categories'. I successfully, get a Category combo box on the photo upload with all of my Categories that I created in WP. </p> <p>What I am trying to do is have a link on each image in my custom layout that gives the name of the category that links to a gallery with all images that match the category. Similiar to what the [author_link] shortcode does in the Layouts Editor, but for categories.</p> <p>I see shortcodes in the Custom Form screen for [category_name], [category_link] and [category_id]; but it doesn't seem that they can be used in the Custom Layout.</p> <p>Any thoughts on how to add a link to each image for categories? I'm not using the WP upload features built into PS 0.4.01. Would using this help with categories?</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Lee </p>