In your question you showed the image which is grid-view and that codex belongs to list-view. So I am confused here for which section you are talking about.
Grid View : not possible unless you change the core as they don’t provide any hook and the whole media section was created by jquery, backbone and unserscore. Please look into media-grid.min.js or media-grid.js for code.
List View : in this view you can easily add dropdown. here is the script to do this. If you want then add parse_query
or pre_get_posts
filter to change the query for the dropdown. As I am setting author
to url, wordpress itself sets it for me so need for those filters.
function media_add_author_dropdown()
{
$scr = get_current_screen();
if ( $scr->base !== 'upload' ) return;
$author = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'author', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING );
$selected = (int)$author > 0 ? $author : '-1';
$args = array(
'show_option_none' => 'All Authors',
'name' => 'author',
'selected' => $selected
);
wp_dropdown_users( $args );
}
add_action('restrict_manage_posts', 'media_add_author_dropdown');
Here are the references
Edit #1: Added author filter after this comment
function author_filter($query) {
if ( is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
if (isset($_GET['author']) && $_GET['author'] == -1) {
$query->set('author', '');
}
}
}
add_action('pre_get_posts','author_filter');