surfsup74

Thanks so much for taking the time to consider my question. I have managed to work something out that means I no longer need to switch plugins.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/remember-taxonomy-term-and-use-it-to-restrict-subsequent-attachment-page-nav

I just needed to restrict the nav on the attachment page to pages within the term from which I had visited.

Solved in a round about way.
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/remember-taxonomy-term-and-use-it-to-restrict-subsequent-attachment-page-nav

I have solved this now.

I used this to get the last part of the url (the taxonomy term)

$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$url = trim($url, '/');
$array = explode('/',$url);
$the_taxterm = end($array);
echo $the_taxterm;

Then this to store it.

session_start();
$_SESSION['the_taxterm'] = $the_taxterm;
echo $the_taxterm;

And this to use it in the image template

session_start();
$the_taxterm = $_SESSION['the_taxterm'];
echo $the_taxterm;

I didn’t need to worry about the expire bit as it seemed to expire / refresh anyway.

Found the problem – I had previously named another field and the loop wa pulling in images for that field name! All sorted.

*Update*

I have noticed (by chance) that if I put the same loop into my template file used to display ‘taxonomy’ pages it then outputs all the images as I want. However – if I use the same loop on my template file for ‘pages’ (which is where I need it) it will only display some (but not all) images.

Weird, but I expect there’s a simple explanation?

Thanks,

I got this working (‘image_tag’ is the name of the custom field used to add an image):

$types[0] = 'media-tags';
foreach ($types as $type) {
 $terms = get_terms($type, array('name_like' => "a", 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'name', 'exclude' => '26') );
 if ($terms) {
  foreach($terms as $term) {
	  $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_field('image_tag', 'media-tags_'.$term->term_id.''), 'thumbnail');
   echo '<li><h2><a href="/'.$term->slug.'">'.$term->name.'</a></h2>';
   echo '<img src="'.$image[0].'"/></li>';
 }
}
}

Feel free to improve on this.

@pmenard,

Does this help with regards to your previous post; https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to/how-to-get-values-from-a-taxonomy-term/

@pmenard,

I’ve cobbled this together ??

<?php
$types[0] = 'media-tags';
$image = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_field('image_tag', 'media-tags'), 'thumbnail');
foreach ($types as $type) {
 $terms = get_terms( $type, '' );
 if ($terms) {
  foreach($terms as $term) {
   echo '<h2>'.$term->name.'</h2>';
   echo '<img src="'.$image[0].'"/>';
 }
}
}
?>

It doesn’t get me the correct image though -it just displays the term name (correct) and the most recent image I’ve added to the site (not what I want). I need to get the image that’s been selected in the Edit Media tags page.

I really would love to get this thing working…

Thanks

@pmenard,

I need to be able to select an image from the media library as I want to display my best photo to represent each ‘term’ so random would not work for me.

I have had a play with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin and have added a ‘select image’ field to the ‘term’ management (Edit media tag) page – so now there are 4 fields; 1/ Name, 2/ Slug, 3/ Description, 4/ Add image.

The problem is that I don’t know how to grab the term’s name and associated image form the database. Any code suggestions would be very welcome! I’ll try myself anyhow and post any working code here…

The ACF plugin is well documented. Stuff about ACF taxonomies can be found here.

Thanks.

z.green, I don’t see that option. When I click on the tag (I’m going: ‘Media’ > ‘Media tags’ > ‘Specific tag name’) the only fields are ‘Name’, ‘Slug’ & ‘Description’. It would be great to be able to add the ‘Featured image’ field here. Did anyone figure this out yet?

Yes sir – that worked! Thanks

Perfect. Thanks wpismypuppet.

Hi wpismypuppet,

I can get the url using <?php echo $image[0]; ?> as in the code below. However, how do I combine that with your suggestion in order to put just the filename in place of ‘XXXX’ in my code below?

<?php // start advanced custom fields repeater
					if(get_field('images')): ?>
                	<?php while(the_repeater_field('images')): ?><?php $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_sub_field('image'), 'full'); ?>
					<a href="<?php echo $image[0]; ?>"  rel="shadowbox[set]" title="Click to view this photograph fullscreen. Filename: XXXX" >
					<img src="<?php echo $image[0]; ?>" width="678" /></a>
        			<?php endwhile; ?>
    				<?php endif; ?>

OK – I now have…

<?php function the_parent_slug() {
global $post;
if($post->post_parent == 0) return ”;
$post_data = get_post($post->post_parent);
return $post_data->post_name;
} ?>
<?php $the_parent_slug = the_parent_slug(); ?>
<?php $media_items = get_attachments_by_media_tags(‘size=thumb&media_tags=’.$the_parent_slug); ?>

…but still get nothing in the $media_items parameters. Where am I going wrong here?

Ok – thanks for the heads up. I can now move on.