RKS213

Not really one to criticize other users reviews but this one is completely due to user reading comprehension. The plugin has already instructed in the docs to use the classes fa-home etc and your quote is saying use these classes together if you want. It’s not as difficult or “geek speak” as you’re making it out to be. It’s literally, “Add this to your menu, or add multiple.”

Also, the idea behind WordPress is to publish without coding skills, but the extensibility of the CMS goes far beyond the layman. Are you going to go complain in the WordPress migrate plugin tools because you don’t know server administration? Not all plugins are meant for you. Come on, stop giving poor reviews unfairly.

I agree with you that you should support your plugin the best way for you as the author. That helps everyone.

That said, I’ll tell you what I see.

I do not know if your plugin produces poor quality images. I’ve never used your plugin. What I was doing at the time of my original post was evaluating different options and vetting plugins. A good way to do that is to check the support forums because many times bugs are discovered and documented from the community.

When I’m evaluating plugins and see several people complaining about the same issue, I start looking for the resolution. Ie was it the plugin or was it like you mentioned and some other plugin that doesn’t play nice. What I saw here was several people asking and no resolution. So I moved on and didn’t try out your plugin. I’m not saying that as a threat or an insult, I’m just letting you know people do look at these forums to decide if a plugin is worth it. These forums may not be easy to keep up with and if you don’t care if people see unresolved issues and move on then that’s fine , however, it might be just as easy to log a comment before you click Resolved because the community members often don’t post any updates themselves.

tl;dr Some people check these forums to decide between plugins and multiple people reporting the same unresolved bug could make people pass.

What I mean in my example search-division is the select and search-tag is the input. Using either in the shortcode works perfectly. What I’m trying to get at is how to tell the shortcode, “Take the term from the select OR the term from the input.” It’s searching on the same att. terms like you mentioned above with mla_search_fields=”terms”.

I have two more quick questions.

1) In all your examples, you post two shortcodes with a few differences and that is where I took the example I originally posted above. I have since removed the first one and it appears to work just fine with only one shortcode so I was wondering why there was a need for two.

2) What is the fastest method of getting an OR in the search terms? Ie search-tag OR search-division from the above example?

Ahh, yeah that is better news. I should have thought about the featured image first but the custom field section caught my eye first on the form and got me off track. That is certainly a viable solution at this moment. Thanks.

So one last quick question. I’ve been having some trouble getting GS and Imagick working correctly but I was wondering about a possible workaround.

If I attach my own image as a custom field on the PDF, is there an option in your plugin to display that custom image? I know there is a mla_output option but I’m not thinking this where I would want to try this out.

To be clear, I’m asking to go to Media -> Add New -> Add PDF -> Edit -> Add Custom field for image

Then the plugin will display this image via an option instead of the icon or mla_viewer generated one.

SIDENOTE: I do understand this is a highly inefficient solution and will require me to save a media file to serve as the image to another media file but at this point in time it’s a workable solution if possible. In the long term I understand I will need to figure out my imagick woes.

Ok I see under settings The mla_viewer is not supported because:

Imagick support is not installed.
Ghostscript support is not installed.

So my original suspicion was correct that this plugin still needs Imagick to work. I was hoping beyond hope that it was using some kind of Google support to handle that but I see now that isn’t the case.

Marking as resolved. The culprit is imagick.

I see now I need size=icon in the shortcode and it displays the thumbnail instead of the link text. Is this correct? When I put it in my shortcode it displays the thumbnail on the page. I also see the mla_viewer=true appears to have no effect on my page with or without this part so I am thinking my issue has something to do with this and I don’t have the settings correct?

Why is this post marked resolved? There isn’t any resolution posted and as it stands, the examples posted by the OP and @awbernst still show poor quality PDFs.

Is this an issue with having poor quality PDFs by the users or is the plugin at fault? Perhaps both users can post links to their PDFs as well so we can download them and see for ourselves if this is a PDF issue or a plugin issue?

Right now it looks like I’ll have to keep searching for a PDF plugin because leaving this unresolved is troublesome.

Didn’t see I could mark it resolved myself. Sorry.

The development version does indeed fix this issue as it is no longer appearing in the logs or on the page. Please feel free to close this ticket as resolved.

Also, it does appear using the shortcode will be my better option and all the options available seem to account for everything I wanted with the widget in the first place. Thanks.

Oh ok. I didn’t know it was allowed. I do disagree philosophically and think there is no argument that makes legitimate sense that can balance the obvious bias implications of that but this is neither the time or place to get into a long discussion so I will mark as resolved since I’m wrong policy wise. Thanks.

Let me try this in my testing site. I will report back.

Off topic: By any chance is this the 1.8 version you mentioned in another thread regarding supporting images?

Yes. Under each of the errors noted above there is that comment.

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I just installed this plugin today on my WAMP environment. I added an <img src=”<?php echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘path/to/image.jpg’; ?>” /> and started getting this error.

Even after removing the new PHP from my post, I would still get this error whenever I tried to save. The page would actually save, however, and it would even now perform the PHP on the page when I viewed it. Problem is, getting this white screen error every time I tried to update a page was a bother and not really what I want to see every time.

I couldn’t figure it out so I just uninstalled the plugin and will try a different one to see if I can get php into the pages.