Jim Reekes

Ah, just remembered something I read a couple years ago. A quick search reveals LinkedIn does use the Open Graph description, but I’m not seeing this happen on my posts. I can manually insert my URL, and it still doesn’t pick up the description. I looked at posts I’ve done manually months ago, and they don’t have a description. Scanning my feed from dozens of other posters, I don’t see any descriptions. As far as I can tell, the documentation from LinkedIn is wrong. They are not adding the open graph description.

LinkedIn docs

I forgot to add, I did find a way to make the two plugins work together. In the settings of Enhanced Media Library it allows you to include the taxonomy in the filter, which was not set in my case. Changing those settings got the two plugins working, so it wasn’t really an incompatibility in the first place.

I don’t know why I would use both at the same time, but just wanted to let you know there isn’t really a problem. It was all entirely my on me.

This is so embarrassing. I’ve used MLA for so many years I take it for granted. I just posted a long over due review.

When ever I consider a plugin I do a great deal of testing. MLA has been one of my standards for so long I think of it as a standard part of WordPress. When it stopped working, it was confused. I couldn’t even remember how WordPress works without it LOL.

Somewhere along the line I had added Enhanced Media Library. I delete all the not needed plugins after my review, but for some reason left this one in my inactive set.

I can remember having to debug a problem on the site, and deactivated all plugins. I inadvertently activated Enhanced Media Library, and went along my merry way until earlier this week when I needed to work with some media. That was the first time I noticed the problem (several weeks after mistakenly activating Enhanced Media Library).

Sorry for the confusion!

BTW – I wish WordPress would save plugin “sets” so I could deactivate things and then restore the ones I was using. Every time I get into a debugging session I have to make a list of all the active plugsin, and then manually reactivate them. I have several that I use for utilities, and keep inactive. I also have others I keep because they may be useful sometime, but also keep those inactive.

I sure would be nice to have the ability to define a set of plugins so I could quickly activate/inactivate them without having to manually make a list and then individually selecting them.

If you or someone has, or knows of such a tool, I think it would be popular.

Thanks for listening and bearing with me!

Thanks for the super fast reply!

You wrote “Nothing along the right side like usual appears” You are seeing the normal WP ATTACHMENT DETAILS without the MLA enhancements; is that right? If you click on one of the thumbnails in the grid, do the enhancements appear?

D’oh! My mistake. Sorry for the confusion. At least the right bar appears to be working.

Have you installed some other plugin that adds taxonomy support to Media Library items?

No, nothing I can think of. I’ll double check and see if there’s a plugin causing the problem.

Do you see the “Terms Search” button and/or the added controls below the Search Media box?

Here’s a screen shot of what I see when I click “set featured image” within the post editor.

Here’s what I see when I’m in the editor and a click to insert an image.

Here’s what I see when I click on an existing image to edit.

I use a staging site, and I’d be thrilled to have you look at the problem. Let me first see if I can narrow this down further.

Here are the feeds on my site. They’re highly technical. It’s growing with about 2-3 new articles a day, from 25 feeds. So far there’s been over 100 authors and 300 articles processed.

It’s a very involved system where I also wrote filters to clean the incoming taxonomy. At the back end I delete and modify the original tags added by the author, then add my own tags based on keywords and related terms in the article. Each article is assigned to one topic.

At the front end I present the user with a UI that will filter articles based on one of my topics. Search has also been optimized to rank articles based on my taxonomy system. While viewing an article you have a navigation system that appears at the top of each page.

The end of each article includes a set of closely related articles (again based on my taxonomy). Additionally I insert a table of contents for each article, and have a glossary for key terms appearing in the content.

This entire process is automated. I review the new articles each night and remove the few that are not applicable to my library. I’ve been adjusting the WPRSS Aggregator filters now that I’m seeing the pattern.

https://argonsys.com/learn-microsoft-cloud/library/

This problem has NOT been resolved.

It’s a bug I have in Version 4.0.2 of the plug in.

Ah ha! I found the actual bug. It’s in the Yoast plugin’s Breadcrumbs code. It’s adding an extra </span> tag.

D’oh! You’re right, I was going blind looking at the lost tag.

BTW – the error was flagged by https://validator.w3.org, and it seemed like a real error (at least at the time, and now on my fourth reading I see what I wasn’t seeing).

I appreciate the quick response. I kept checking thinking how unlikely this was an error, but just couldn’t find that extra tag. Trying the validator just now it’s not getting flag, so I’m at a loss. Wonder if I happened to have tripped over a caching bug – whatever, it’s working correctly!

I just found the X-Raym’s script, so I can see the count in the admin pages. Why this isn’t a standard feature is surprising.

Yet, that doesn’t let me sort which is the critical feature. Finding posts based on popularity.

I’m still without the ability to manually edit the counts.

Thanks Cristian, there’s two different problems.

One is about my custom taxonomy. That’s the /library/ example I describe above. I found it was rather easy (once you find the course code) to define the custom taxonomy to my custom post type. The code allows me to define the slug. The thing I was missing is that the plugin doesn’t support the slug option, and the taxonomy pages would appear at the root. I want them to appear within the same slug as the custom posts (which just seems logical to me when custom taxonomy is attached to a post).

Anyway…I got all my custom post and custom taxonomies working. That was the /library/ problem.

The other problem is the /blog/ (which you helped me with in a different thread. I needed to make the change to the WP Settings permalinks to support my /library/ custom post. Your suggestion got that working just as I needed, but had a side effect on the /blog/.

At first I thought it was working. All my blog posts are in fact within the /blog/ slug as I want. But what I noticed last week is the blog’s main page is no longer the page I created. That slug has been replaced by an archive page.

My blog’s home page is an actual WP ‘page’ (not a ‘post’) that I designed. It used a shortcode to show the list of blog posts. Now after the changes the /blog/ location is no longer showing the WP page I had created. Looks like WP is now using that slug for the archive permalink instead of the URL to the page I had created.

I suspect this means I’ll have to create a custom archive template in PHP for my blog posts. That’s unfortunate since it’s so much easier to create pages with the WP UI and my theme, rather than writing PHP code to layout a page.

After further research, it looks like the plugin doesn’t allow for setting the rewrite rules of a taxonomy. Instead I’ve added code to my functions.php file that will set the slug to the path I wanted.

My feature request would be to allow the taxonomy to be moved from the root to the same URL as the custom posts.

Perfect!

Exactly what I needed (and I understood what you were doing, which is a big help in the future)

Thanks a million.

BTW – in my permalinks settings, the Custom Structure is set to /blog/%postname%/

I very much do want my blog at mydomain.com/blog/

I want my custom posts of news to be at mydomain.com/news/

The problem is my news custom posts are showing up at mydomain.com/blog/news/

I forgot to add that I plan on using the Advanced Feeds Bundle.

Just playing with the demo at this moment.

I have 1.2 installed, and tested this.

All images in WordPress imported with the usual word-image-x.

Both the slug (file name) and title of the image in WordPress were word-image-x. The alt text in WordPress was blank.

I used a two-page Word doc with three images. I gave each one a unique alt text title within the Word .

I tried saving the doc within Word as HTML, and verified the images were given the alt text I had defined.

Then I went back to Word, and use the alt text description field. After doing the import again, this time I found it was working as expected.

I wasn’t obvious that the alt text title is ignore, and the plugin is using the alt text description instead. I would have thought the title was the ideal source, but I can accept you’re using the description instead.