Use wppa shortcode/functions in PHP | tag.php

Shortcodes can be placed on a page. They will work. Do not bother about being inside the loop. On a page is inside the loop.

[wppa type="slide" album="#tags,tag1" size="auto" align="center"][/wppa]

looks correctly and should work.

Note that the tags must be literally correct. Your example is about tag Port Ellen, but the tagged photos have tag Portellen.

Since a few months you can have photo tags with spaces, so either change the photo tags to Port Ellen, or enter in the shortcode: album="#tags,Portellen"

Dear Jacob,

thank you for the quick reply.

I will have to adjust and add a lot of my tags. This will be one of the next todos.

The tag-pages are somehow special as far as I know. In the tag.php there is text included which you can add in WP-Admin (Beitr?ge->Schlagw?rter in german; posts->tags in english?). Each of these can be called by a link like the above using the slug. Above the example for port-ellen.

So there is no page where I could add the shortcode or did I miss something?

But I could add some code to the tag.php if wppa supports this kind of function. Is this possible? And is it possible to get a number of pictures (regarding the filter)?

My idea is to change once the tag.php and automatically every picture tagged with the same slug will show up automatically.

Is this possible?

Thank you.

Best regards
Peter

I see.

You can bulk edit tags in Photo Albums -> Settings admin page Table VIII-13. This will save a lot of work.

It is possible what you want.
You can call wppa directly from a php file ( tags.php in your case ).
You can supply some data in the function args, and this and more in global data.

Basically it works as follows:

if ( function_exists( 'wppa_albums' ) ) { // wppa is active
echo wppa_albums();
}

The following arguments exist:

wppa_albums( $id = '', $type = '', $size = '', $align = '' );

But, you can supply everything in the global var $wppa.

All elements of $wppa with their defaults are:

$wppa['src'] 			= false;
	$wppa['searchstring'] 		= '';
	$wppa['topten_count'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['is_topten'] 		= false;
	$wppa['lasten_count'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['is_lasten'] 		= false;
	$wppa['comten_count'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['is_comten']		= false;
	$wppa['is_featen']		= false;
	$wppa['featen_count'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['is_tag']			= false;
	$wppa['is_single'] 		= false;
	$wppa['is_mphoto'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['single_photo'] 		= '';
	$wppa['start_album'] 		= '';
	$wppa['is_cover'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['is_slide'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['is_slideonly'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['is_slideonlyf'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['film_on'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['is_landing'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['start_photo'] 		= '0';
	$wppa['photos_only']		= false;
	$wppa['albums_only'] 		= false;
	$wppa['page'] 			= '';
	$wppa['is_upload'] 		= false;
	$wppa['last_albums']		= false;
	$wppa['last_albums_parent']	= '0';
	$wppa['is_multitagbox'] 	= false;
	$wppa['is_tagcloudbox'] 	= false;
	$wppa['taglist'] 		= '';
	$wppa['tagcols']		= '2';
	$wppa['is_related']		= false;
	$wppa['related_count']		= '0';
	$wppa['is_owner']		= '';
	$wppa['is_upldr'] 		= '';
	$wppa['is_cat'] 		= false;
	$wppa['bestof'] 		= false;
	$wppa['is_subsearch'] 		= false;
	$wppa['is_rootsearch']  	= false;
	$wppa['is_superviewbox'] 	= false;
	$wppa['is_searchbox'] 		= false;
	$wppa['may_sub'] 		= false;
	$wppa['may_root'] 		= false;
	$wppa['portrait_only'] 		= false;

I think you only have to supply:

$wppa['start_album']
$wppa['is_slide']

If the size and align are not the defaults as defined in the Settings page, you can optionally add:

$wppa['fullsize'] = '500'; // for 500 px or:
$wppa['auto_colwidth'] = true; // for responsive

The ( almost ) complete code becomes ( for responsive ):

if ( function_exisis( 'wppa_albums' ) ) {
	$my_tag = 'Port ellen'; // example, replace 'Port ellen' by your var that contains the tag.
	$wppa['start_album'] = '#tags,'.$my_tag;
	$wppa['is_slide'] = '1';
	$wppa['align'] = 'left'; // or 'center' or 'right'
	$wppa['fullsize'] = '0.8'; // for 80% of the available width
	$wppa['auto_colwidth'] = true; // for responsive
	echo wppa_albums();
}

This should do it…

For more detailed info see wppa-functions.php

I forgot to mention that the code should start with:

global $wppa;

Dear Jacob,

thank you! Great – it works!

You can see a working example here: https://fosm.de/tag/ardmore/

I did the following to get this result:

<?php if ( function_exists( 'wppa_albums' ) ) :
			$my_tag = single_tag_title( '', false );  // var that contains the tag.
			global $wppa;
			$wppa['start_album'] = '#tags,'.$my_tag;
			$wppa['is_slide'] = '1';
			$wppa['align'] = 'center'; // or 'left' or 'right'
			$wppa['fullsize'] = '1.0'; // 0.8 for 80% of the available width
			$wppa['auto_colwidth'] = true; // for responsive
			echo wppa_albums();
		?>
		<?php endif; ?>

There is only one little thing left to have it perfect: is it possible to get the number of images back? Then I would be able to decide like mentioned above how to display it.

Right now, if there is NO fitting tag ($my_tag) then it shows a little box “no pictures found”.

Best regards
Peter

Try this, it should work and is more future safe and maintainable, and even simpler:

<?php if ( function_exists( 'wppa_albums' ) ) {

	// Init
	global $wppa;
	global $thumbs;

	// Find the tag
	$my_tag = wppa_sanitize_tags( single_tag_title( '', false ) );

	// Find the count of photos
	$wppa['is_tag'] = $my_tag;
	wppa_get_thumbs();
	$photo_count = is_array( $thumbs ) ? count( $thumbs ) : 0;

	// If photos, show them
	if ( $photo_count ) {
		echo do_shortcode( '[wppa type="slide" album="#tags,'.$my_tag.' size="1.0" align="center"][/wppa]' );
	}

	// If no photos, say it and clean up !
	else {
		echo 'Es gibt leider keine photos mit schlagwort <b>'.$my_tag.'</b>';
		wppa_reset_occurrance();
	}
} ?>

Dear Jacob,

that great! Works perfect. Thank you once more!

Best regards
Peter

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