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I am seeing this appear a lot in the forums, but not much in "Ideas" and it would really help out those of us who want to integrate WP as a CMS:
Develop the Media Library into a full-scale document manager. (we can do this in stages) Some ideas:
--integrate the caption and description of media into search results
--add fields for tags, meta-data, url, etc.
--allow sorting the library by date, type, etc.
--add support for indexing the content of .doc,.pdf,.xls, etc.
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WordPress has a great potential as a full-blown CMS, there is no need to sacrifice it for being "pure blog".
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I agree, would be really nice to add these options to the media library, but I must say that on version 2.6 media library is quite good too.
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Don't get me wrong - I love this feature - and I think we are on the right track. I'm just encouraging this route of development.
I'm using 2.6 as well, but the only options I have for a PDF are Title, Caption & Description. The caption is really cool when you are using it with a JPG, but it doesn't do anything yet for a PDF.
What seems like the number one priority now would be to optionally integrate the existing Caption & Description into search results. That way you can essentially use these like meta-data or keywords, making searches more relevant for the users.
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I am setting up a website now and using the Media Library with lots of different file types.
For example, I want to insert a "Gallery" of PDF's into my post, so I would expect by hitting "Insert Gallery Into Post", I get a list of links to the documents. I can do this manually, but each page I am editing can have upto 20 files attached to it...
To expand this, I would like to have plugins that I could apply to the gallery which would work with different file-types - for me this would bring a huge amount of things together - e.g. I could set up a WordPress plugin to use the JW player for FLV file types and register this with the [gallery] system, etc.
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Skila, where you able to get what you wanted achieved?
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thx2012
Just to list some non-image media quickly, I hacked a quick shortcode handler together which you are welcome to use:
function media_list_handler($atts, $content = null) {
$mime_type = "application/pdf";
if(isset($atts['mime'])) {
$mime_type = $atts['mime'];
}
$attachments = _list_attached_images($mime_type);
if ( empty($attachments) ) {
return $content;
}
if ( is_feed() ) {
$output = "\n";
foreach ( $attachments as $attachment )
$output .= wp_get_attachment_url($attachment->ID). "\n";
return $output;
}
$output = "";
if($content) {
$output = "<h2 class='medialistcaption'>" .$content ."</h2>\n";
}
$output .= "<ul class='medialist'>\n";
$count = count($attachments);
$i = 0;
//$to_preload;
foreach( $attachments as $attachment ) {
$i++;
$title = isset( $attachment->post_title ) ? $attachment->post_title : "Item " .$i;
$output .= "<li><a href='" .wp_get_attachment_url($attachment->ID) ."' title='" .$title ."'>";
$output .= $title ."</a></li>\n";
}
$output .= "</ul>\n";
return $output;
}
function _list_attached_images($mime_type = 'image') {
global $post;
$attachments = get_children( array('post_parent' => $post->ID, 'post_status' => 'inherit', 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' => $mime_type, 'orderby' => 'menu_order ASC, ID ASC') );
return $attachments;
}
add_shortcode('medialist', 'media_list_handler');
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No kidding !! I completely agree -I am using the media gallery for an artists website and i can't believe the content in the titles or descriptions is not searchable.Such a shame. If anyone has any ideas for me i am all ears.
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This is a quick and dirty plugin to display the title, description, and caption. Might come in useful for some folks. Save this code as add-image-descriptions.php and upload it to your plugins directory: /wp-content/plugins/
<?php /** * Plugin Name: Add Image Descriptions * Plugin URI: http://jonbourne.com/ * Description: Adds titles and descriptions to the captions of embedded images * Version: 0.1 * Author: Jon Bourne * Author URI: http://jonbourne.com/ */ function img_description_caption_shortcode($attr, $content = null) { extract(shortcode_atts(array( 'id' => '', 'align' => 'alignnone', 'width' => '', 'caption' => '', 'description' => 'asdf' ), $attr)); if ( 1 > (int) $width || empty($caption) ) return $content; $attach = get_post($my_id = str_replace('attachment_','',$id), ARRAY_A); $title = $attach['post_title']; $caption = $attach['post_excerpt']; $description = $attach['post_content']; if ( $id ) $id = 'id="' . $id . '" '; if ( $description ) $description = ' <span class="wp-caption-text-description">'.$description.'</span>'; return '<div ' . $id . 'class="wp-caption ' . $align . '" style="width: ' . (10 + (int) $width) . 'px">' . $content . '<p class="wp-caption-text">' . '<span class="wp-caption-text-title">' . $title . '</span> ' . '<span class="wp-caption-text-caption">' . $caption . '</span> ' . '<span class="wp-caption-text-description">'. $description . '</span>' . ' </div>'; } remove_shortcode('wp_caption', 'img_caption_shortcode'); remove_shortcode('caption', 'img_caption_shortcode'); add_shortcode('wp_caption', 'img_description_caption_shortcode'); add_shortcode('caption', 'img_description_caption_shortcode'); ?>
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