Paul Menard

@chavo

Can you provide some information about your WP install?

1. What version of WP?
2. What version of the Simply Exclude plugin?
3. What other plugins are installed and active?
4. Describe how you are using the Simply Exclude plugin. Are you excluding categories, tag, pages, etc.

Any chance you will allow access to your backend wp-admin so that I can investigate? This is always helpful since building a matching test environment is next to impossible.

@chavo

Thanks for the post here. This is similar to another thread https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/397117?replies=8 where users mention the WP gallery shortcode stops working once the activate the plugin. I’m the author of the Simply Exclude plugin and will investigate. Thanks for the details.

Hmm. Ok. All I can do is investigate further. The bulk of the plugin code in size is to handle the admin panels. Excluding categories is done via a simple wp_query hook. Will investigate and replay back. thanks.

@kingkong954

Thanks. Yeah just updated Media-Tags 2.2.8. Should fix your issue with the template.

As to the WP 3.0 comments. There are a few threads I’ve seen on the official WP blogs about possible 3.x enhancements. Since 3.0 (actually 2.9.x) allows for custom Taxonomies the thought is you may not need Media-Tags specifically but be able to roll your own.

This has happened already once. I wrote a plugin called Revisions which allow for versioning of the Post/Page content. Six months after I released the plugin WP came out with versioning built-in. And they used some of the plugin code in code. Maybe I should go to work for WordPress.

@mkormendy

Thanks for writing. I’m the author of the plugin and here to answer your question.

Not directly using any of the functions I’ve provided via the Media-Tags plugin. This is on purpose as I’ve tried not to duplicate what is offered via the core WordPress functions.

So with that being said how would you get the Media-tag tags for a given attachment? Use the WP function

get_the_terms( $id = 0, $taxonomy ).

The first is the attachment ID. The second is the taxonomy and should be literally ‘MEDIA_TAGS_TAXONOMY’

For example your attachment ID is 45. Then the function would be:

$my_terms = get_the_terms(45, MEDIA_TAGS_TAXONOMY);

The $my_terms will be an array of the media-tags. You will need add some extra coding to build the output.

Alternately, if you want the comma-seperated list of media-tags for a given item you can call a different WP function

get_the_term_list( $id = 0, $taxonomy, $before = ”, $sep = ”, $after = ” )

Hope this helps.

@anointed I’m the author of the Media Tags plugin. Since I wrote the plugin I’ve seen many discussion about bringing this functionality and tagging for media into the WP core sometime in the 3.x version. So not sure how much time I have left to extend things. I’m not saying I’m abandoning the plugin. Not at all. It is a similar situation with one of my previous plugin, Revisions. This plugin was eventually used as a model for the versioning ability put into WP core.

So again there are many things I would like to add to the Media-Tags plugin over the next few months but really why would I want to add something that will be added to core.

Ok. Here are some thoughts. Maybe we can work together to nail this issue down. I’m still open to this being a Simply Exclude issue. But Simply Exclude doesn’t directly effect the contents of a post/page. Only if and where it displays.

Activate all your normal plugins including Simply Exclude. Under the Simply Exclude admin area make sure nothing is checked in the lower section for categories, tags, authors and pages. In other words it is active but nothing is setup. The upper section where you define include or exclude does nothing if there aren’t any of the lower parameters set. In this state does the gallery work?

@kingkong954 Yeah there is something wrong here. In 2.2.5 the template file gets called properly. But for some reason in 2.2.7 (not sure what happened to 2.2.6) the template is not called. Thanks for bring this up to my attention. Working on a fix. Hope to have it out soon.

@kingkong954 sorry for the delay on answering this. I’m the author of the Media Tags plugin. I’ll start investigating. The version 2.2.7 did have some code cleanup that might have affected the template section. I’ll check and let you know. Would you be willing to test out a best version of the changes? Wold be better to make sure before I post an update the www.ads-software.com and have it wrong again.

Thanks for the info. I’ve setup my development environment using the same WP version and plugin version. I’ve created a new Post titled ‘Gallery’. Inserted some random pictures. Assigned the Post to the category ‘General’. Inserted the images as a WP gallery using the shortcode ‘[gallery]‘. Saved the Post. I can view the post on the site front view, archive and feed.

Now into Simply Exclude category section. In the top section select the ‘exclude’ radio for ‘Front’, ‘Archive’ and ‘Feed’. In the lower section on the row for the ‘General’ category I have set the checkboxes for ‘Front’, ‘Archive’ and ‘Feed’.

When I view the site I cannot see the new Post in the Front listing, the archive of the feed. But it I select the posts specific URL I can view the page as well as see the gallery.

So at this point I’m not sure I’m able to reproduce your issue. I’m not saying there is not an issues. there are always chances of issue given the differences in system setup.

I’m the author of the Simply Exclude plugin. What version of WP are you running? Also what version of this plugin? Will be glad to investigate but need more information.

betadog,

Geetings, Good question. I will admit user rights is not something I’ve focused on in past versions of the Media Tags plugin (I’m the author BTW). You might try some other plugins like Role Scoper which provided the ability to tune access to plugins on a user by user basis.

Stef,

I’m the author of the Media Tags plugin. Not really sure why you are seeing 400+ queries. Can you install the WP Debug plugin or something and pass that information back to me either here or via email ([email protected]).

Also, would need to know a little more about how you are using the plugin on your site.

As for the plugin it does very little direct SQL calls. Mostly since the Media Tags are stored in the Taxonomy system just like Post tags and Post Categories 95% of the Media Tags functionality is handled directly with built-in WordPress function calls.

Kind Regards,
Paul Menard
https://www.codehooligans.com

Hi. I’m the author of the Simply Exclude plugin. This plugin was not designed to be a complete filtering solution for all WordPress output. The SE plugin works on only certain areas where the Query object allow interception of the page/post request information. These areas are the is_search, is_feed, is_home, is_archive.

The other man independent functions like wp_list_categories, wp_list_pages, etc don’t provide the same type of ‘hooks’. So the SE plugin cannot be used for these. Sorry. This is not a bug in the plugin as it was not designed to handle all the non-query functions.

carlla, This is an actual bug in the code. It’s currently part of the next release of the plugin due end of the month.