Adam Bissonnette

When you use a custom template like in your example that may conflict with the target parameter so you have to add it to your item template.

I think what you’d be looking for is:

[MMFileList folder="/../../director_memos/2017_director_memos/" format="li" target="_blank"]<a href="{url}" target="_blank">{name}</a>[/MMFileList]

That’s a really good suggestion! A bit scary to think of all the date format requests I might get but I can try to add this and it shouldn’t be too hard to add some default date options. Some servers store dates in weird ways (e.g. only last modified / updated date and no creation date) so that might cause issues for your request.

As long as php has access to read the content of the folder then this plugin should be able to list those files.

No – luck. Seems like the plugin still wants to write to wp-content for some reason. I’ve added more logging to show stack traces on error messages. Hopefully this will help me track down any remaining configs.

Aha, found the config settings for this.

if ( !defined( 'W3TC_CACHE_DIR' ) )
    define( 'W3TC_CACHE_DIR', '/content-cache/cache' );
if ( !defined( 'W3TC_CONFIG_DIR' ) )
    define( 'W3TC_CONFIG_DIR', '/content-cache/w3tc-config' );
if ( !defined( 'W3TC_CACHE_MINIFY_DIR' ) )
    define( 'W3TC_CACHE_MINIFY_DIR', '/content-cache/minify' );
if ( !defined( 'W3TC_CACHE_PAGE_ENHANCED_DIR' ) )
    define( 'W3TC_CACHE_PAGE_ENHANCED_DIR', '/content-cache/page_enhanced' );
if ( !defined( 'W3TC_CACHE_TMP_DIR' ) )
    define( 'W3TC_CACHE_TMP_DIR', '/content-cache/tmp' );

Will update if it works.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Adam Bissonnette.

Continuing to work on setting this up in AppEngine with little luck.

I had to make a couple modifications to the plugin files – I have setSaslAuthData available but phpinfo is locked down so this expression fails in numerous places throughout Util_Installed.php:
( method_exists( $o, 'setSaslAuthData' ) && ini_get( 'memcached.use_sasl' ) );

This bypassed allows me to store my auth credentials.

Also my Memcached server via redis requires the following line added in Cache_Memcached.php:
$this->_memcache->setOption(\Memcached::OPT_BINARY_PROTOCOL, true);

This fixes server errors when trying add / set properties.

Unfortunately with all the config added and server errors out of the way I’m still getting errors from w3 total cache saying that the connection isn’t working but doesn’t provide logs or a reason with what’s wrong (invalid server? bad credentials? no reason)

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

My first guess is that the directory might be case sensitive.

Try: [MMFileList folder="/../../Clients/dem-0717/stage1/" format="li" class="mmm-easy" /]

Let me know if that works!

Hey Matt,

It’d be really tough to dynamically make those thumbnails. Your best bet for a quick and dirty solution would be to use a bulk thumbnail creator and upload the images into the same directory as the media files then name your video files something like

image.png.mp4

Your shortcode can be setup to only look for those image files and your custom template output can include .mp4 at the end of the url.

If you’d like I can send you some custom php to cheat and add transpose option for linking one filetype listed to another – regardless you’d have to name your thumbnails the exact same way as your video files.

Let me know if this makes sense.

Recursive lookup is definitely a great feature but it adds a lot of complexity and questions on how to display those subfolders and files and scripts / styles to navigate to and fro. I’m pretty sure that File Away https://en-ca.www.ads-software.com/plugins/file-away/ has recursive folders and display sorting.

That all being said – if you just want a feed of the newest files from all subfolders dropped into the list and now necessarily the folders they’re in I could maybe add that in.

I managed to configure that on my host and it was working. There were a couple false positives on the client plugin saying it failed when it actually succeeded because the content of sites’ homepage contained the word “media” but those are easy to resolve / look past.

Overall very happy with the plugin – could use an update since it has been over a year!

I tried buying the pro version to test this and can’t get a connection to work. I get the following message:

`This is a message from your Content Syndication Toolkit wordpress plugin.

There was an error when trying to get new syndication posts from the content creator. All posts in this import will need to be reimported.

Please login to wordpress and make a manual content pull request using the plugin tools under “Settings -> Content Syndication” in the wordpress admin area.

Here is the error message:

“Problem contacting the server. Please confirm your API Username and Password are correct. Error: transport error – HTTP status code was not 200 CODE: -32300”`

The connection doesn’t seem to work even when doing a manual content pull.

I should add – the master site is https://dev.mediamanifesto.com and the child site is https://socialplatform.wpengine.com

Hi there,

If you’re using the default upload directory settings that will put your files in wp-content/upload/mm/yy/.

If your folder is wpcontent/cats/

Then for the folder parameter you can use ../../cats/

Let me know if this helps.

Hey you should be able to just use "../../industry-reports/" in the shortcode. Let me know if that works.

Hey – I don’t think that’ll work because the WordPress site doesn’t have the permissions to list files on your server. I wouldn’t know how to get that setup. Sorry!