media-library

Remove fields on media uploader for custom page type – not working for “From Computer” or “From Url” tabs?

Version 1 Deals with filtering based on Post ID *From Computer* tab we need to retrieve the $attachment_parent_id: add_filter(‘attachment_fields_to_edit’, ‘wpse_53600_remove_media_upload_fields’, 10000, 2); function wpse_53600_remove_media_upload_fields( $form_fields, $post ) { $our_page_id = 4; $post_id = !empty( $_GET[‘post_id’] ) ? (int) $_GET[‘post_id’] : 0; $attachment_parent_id = !empty($post->post_parent) ? $post->post_parent : 0; if( $post_id == $our_page_id || $attachment_parent_id == … Read more

Group images in media library

Attachments itself same as posts… so you can think on giving tham meta_values or adding taxonomies to tham. as for me i always used first method… this is a simple example of how this functioonality works… add_filter(“attachment_fields_to_edit”, “afields_to_edit”, 10, 2); add_filter(“attachment_fields_to_save”, “afields_to_save”, 10, 2); function afields_to_save($post, $attachment){ $parentPost = get_post($post[‘post_parent’]); /************************************************************* // Roles *************************************************************/ if … Read more

Show how many images are attached to a post/page on compose page

add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, ‘attached_images_meta’ ); function attached_images_meta() { $screens = array( ‘post’, ‘page’ ); //add more in here as you see fit foreach ($screens as $screen) { add_meta_box( ‘attached_images_meta_box’, //this is the id of the box ‘Attached Images’, //this is the title ‘attached_images_meta_box’, //the callback $screen, //the post type ‘side’ //the placement ); } } function … Read more

How to save media files under custom folder without changing wp-config.php or changing media settings

Here is simple function to create your own sub directory for every upload. function kv_custom_image_dir( $pathdata ) { $subdir=”/uploads_img”.$pathdata[‘subdir’]; $pathdata[‘path’] = str_replace($pathdata[‘subdir’], $subdir, $pathdata[‘path’]); $pathdata[‘url’] = str_replace($pathdata[‘subdir’], $subdir, $pathdata[‘url’]); $pathdata[‘subdir’] = str_replace($pathdata[‘subdir’], $subdir, $pathdata[‘subdir’]); return $pathdata; } add_filter( ‘upload_dir’, ‘kv_custom_image_dir’ ); From my above code, I changed my images folder as uploads_img, you can change … Read more

How to link to “most recent” document in the Media Library?

You could search the latest attachments like my example below. I searches for the string “newsletter”, and the first time it pops up in a filename, it writes a link. I’ve tried to make it easy to understand. $attachments = get_posts( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 20, ‘post_status’ => null, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘application/pdf,application/msword’ ) … Read more

How to get media objects

Have you tried to use get_children() function? Edit: All media attached to any post is treated as children of it. The function wp_get_attachment_image() will only return images. With the function get_children() you’ll be able to get all the media, images or anything else. In the above link, you can find some examples.

wordpress media library shows empty images

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How to upload unknown file type?

You can use this function as you mentioned and you need to learn your file extensions mime type (in example i add svg and xcf upload ability to wordpress) add_filter(‘upload_mimes’, ‘ability_to_upload’); function ability_to_upload($mimes = array()) { $mimes[‘svg’] = ‘image/svg+xml’; $mimes[‘xcf’] = ‘image/xcf’; return $mimes; } Here is a link for mime types list and file … Read more

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