Thanks for your interest, for your recent review and for these questions. Here are examples that should give you what you want:
1. If you want to make a post or page with a list of the PDFs, you can use the [mla_gallery] shortcode. You can insert this shortcode in the body of your post/page to add a gallery of PDFs:
[mla_gallery post_mime_type=application/pdf post_parent=all size=icon link=file]
The parameters in the above example select just the PDFs (post_mime_type=application/pdf), show all of the PDFs regardless of what post/page they are attached to (post_parent=all), display an appropriate icon (size=icon) since PDFs are not images and makes each icon a link (link=file) to the corresponding PDF file.
The PDFs will be listed in the gallery even if they are unattached, and the Caption field will be displayed under the icon for each file.
2. To limit the gallery to a specific category (or any other taxonomy term), look at the instructions for Taxonomy Parameters, “tax_operator” in the Settings/Media Library Assistant Documentation tab. For example, you can code
[mla_gallery post_mime_type=application/pdf post_parent=all size=icon link=file attachment_category="Getting Started"]
This will display a gallery of the PDFs with the “Getting Started” value in the “Att. Category” taxonomy.
There are some other topics in the Support Threads that you will find helpful:
PDF List
Shortcode Help
linking to post_parent urls
Noob here, and need some help
Display PDF Images in Landscape View
Have a look through these topics and you should have enough information and examples to get going. If you have any problems or further questions, re-open this topic and I will give you all the help I can.
