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David,
It’s been a very long time — but I wanted, even at this long remove, to thank you for the extraordinary work on the [mla_custom_list]. It’s enormously useful, and I’m deeply grateful. (No request for help this time – just an expression of gratitude.)

Regards,

André

Thanks, David! I’ve downloaded and installed on my local development site, and will take a look. I’ll provide feedback as soon as I can. Thanks again!

— André

Thank you, David — really quick security update. Much appreciated.
— André

Thank you, David – very much appreciated!

I stumbled across the MLA Custom Taxonomy Example yesterday, and have been thinking about how I might make use of that.

I’d be delighted to try out whatever you come up with for the custom field cloud, but please don’t feel any urgency; I have plenty of work to do on the other aspects of my site. I’ll keep an eye out for news from you on this, and will give you any feedback I have.

A challenge of MLA is that there are always more possibilities! I remain very much interested in the idea of a custom cloud — not just because it meets my own needs, but because I think it would be a neat addition to MLA. More broadly, MLA is making me think about the way in which we order and classify information, so it’s a stimulating intellectual exercise to think about how I can use the software you have written to allow other people access to my images. So thank you for the software, and for the enrichment.

Regards,
André

Thanks for the reply. I had begun to suspect I was barking up the wrong tree. I can accomplish what I really need to do manually without serious difficulty, but I’m always looking for a way to automate things that can be repeated (even, often, if the hunt for automation takes me longer than doing it manually in the first place would have done).

I wonder — and again I’m a novice here, so this may not be feasible or wise — if allowing MLA to create custom taxonomies might be one way to do this? Then it might be possible to create a custom rule under the IPTC/EXIF tab that would allow the user to move information to a custom taxonomy, and use that for the tag cloud?

In any case, thanks again for the quick and generous reply. It’s lovely to read a whole support section that is marked by deep courtesy and thoughtfulness.

Thank you! That worked like a charm.