picsporadic

Thank you Tor-Bjorn, I got a little carried away there.. I have split the question into new topics over on the Meow Gallery Forum.

Update on the tag generation: we enabled the debug mode in WP/LR and were able to see the tags in the backend. There are THOUSANDS of them – which is probably what has been hanging our sync. Even when we re-upload the photos with the tags stripped – the tags remain in the plug-in.

At this point most of the tags are empty (photo count 0)

Unfortunately, the plugin only allows deleting the tags one at a time. We are starting with the nestled tags / hierarchy tags deleting one by one with the page refreshing after each delete. It is taking some time.

We will let you know if this will help speed up our resync or if we can get a successful resync at all after this.

In the meantime, it would be great as a feature request to be able to multi-select tags or simply have a button to delete them all (or at least the unused ones) from the WPLR Sync backend.

Thank you!

Still working on this problem. – We enabled the debug mode in WP/LR and were able to see the tags in the backend. There are THOUSANDS of them – which is probably what has been hanging our sync. Even when we re-upload the photos with the tags stripped – the tags remain in the plug-in.

At this point most of the tags are empty, meaning their photo count is 0.

Unfortunately, the plugin only allows deleting the tags one at a time from the backend – we are starting with the nestled tags / hierarchy tags deleting one by one with the page refreshing after each delete. It is taking some time.

We will let you know if this will help speed up our resync or if we can get a successful resync at all after this.

In the meantime, it would be great as a feature request to be able to multi-select tags or simply have a button to delete them all (or at least the unused ones) from the WPLR Sync backend.

Thank you!

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Okay it seems like I have made some progress based on the documentation here:
https://meowapps.com/meow-gallery-tutorial/

Here is an example of a code we were able to create

[gallery layout="tiles" size="medium" link="media" wplr-collection="4" ]

Continuing on – sorry to ask a bunch of questions but I think the general structure of the plugin needs elaborating as there is not much documentation.

Can you explain on how WP/LR sync works with keywords / tags / folder ID’s currently? – Do Keywords turn into tags based on all photos in the LR database?

Example: We have 1000 photos with one keyword and one photo with a 100 keywords. Will the result be 100 tags in WP/LR sync?

We desperate to get the galleries working on our site again I am considering stripping all the tags on our photos and re-uploading them via WP/LR sync. This may only have to be done with the photos with the most tags if the above logic is correct.

During the extension re-sync will the plug-in still create tags based on the old media keywords?

Since our end goal is simply galleries based on Lightroom folders – maybe you could suggest a better workflow? We are currently using WP/LR Sync -> WP Real Media Library -> Justified Image Grid.

If we do a reset with extensions option will it mess up all WP Real Media Library ID’s – which are used in the JIG galleries?

In terms of simplicity I feel the best option would be to reference the WPLR folders directly and not through two other plugins. I have been experimenting with your Meow Gallery plugin- but it seems limited- implementation using shortcodes and without the Glutenberg editor is a bit mysterious.

Can you explain the difference between the two shortcodes :
[wp-lr-collection=”XX”] shortcode and the [wp-lr-folder=”XX”] ?

Thank you – we are looking for the solution that is the most permanent and linked our structure of folders in Lightroom without the need for this re-sycing process

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I figured out a way to “hack” around this by putting the title and caption in the description with custom classes and hiding the original caption that the lightbox displays.

I enabled the “.. also use description if available” checkbox and used the following CSS to hide the caption:

.pswp__caption__center {    position: relative;
    left: -9999px;}

.pswp__description {    position: relative;
    left: 9999px; margin-top:-25px}

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Thank you for your prompt response Jordy! After trying to re-sync the plugin for the last 24 hours with multiple hangs – we’ll wait patiently for this update.