Adding or Importing Into the Media LibraryĪnother pet peeve of mine when creating a new WP website has to do with importing files to the media library. You might also check out Media Features, which allows you to organize media in categories, but it has the additional ability to adjust JPEG image quality percentages, crop and resize images, and adds support for more types of file extensions. Honorable mention to Media Library Assistant which allows categorization of media, but also allows bulk editing of many attributes, such as alt tags and metadata. Once you categorize your media, you can insert it into pages and posts using the gallery shortcode. Then when you add an image (or other media), you can assign it to a category on upload, or when inserting it into content: The easiest way to solve this problem is by installing the Media Categories plugin.Īs you can see in this image, the plugin allows you to create categories and sub-categories for uploaded media (the same as you would for posts): I could go on and on with examples, from realty websites, to auto dealership websites, hardware stores, carpet stores, temp agencies, artists, accountants, and more – they all have some type of media that needs to be managed. Musician website: audio files and clips, video files and clips, images – all of which needed to be classified by event and dateĬonference event website: images and documents that need to be categorized by speaker and event date Manfacturer website: images, and documents that need to be sorted by product line and downloadable by the end user in different variations (hi-res, lo-res, thumbnail)īank website: documents for accounts and loans for download, PDF files with properties and assets for sale, images of bank personel Recipe website: food images for recipes that need to be categorized by food type, and meal type, and linked to their respective articles Let me give you some website examples I’ve recently encountered with specific media requirements: WordPress core coders seem to never have considered how you might manage groups of media. The media library seems to have been designed with pages or posts in mind, and you once you upload something within a page or post it becomes “attached” to it. I could never understand why at some point a category and / or tagging system wasn’t added specifically for media. When you start a website, you have to create categories and make sure your content is well-organized. Probably the #1 issue I have with the WordPress media library is the fact that you can’t categorize anything. Create Categories for the WordPress Media Library 44 Tips To Make The Most Out of WordPress Media Library 1. Today we’ll go over all kinds of different ways to enhance, hack, and extend the capabilities of the WordPress media library. The WordPress media library does a lot of things well, but it might not (exactly) do what you need it to do each and every time… without some tweaking. Later plugins came out allowing you to upload and resize images, and then eventually media upload options were added to the WordPress core. There were all kinds of code snippets you could add to the “hacks” file to help manage images. Since I’ve been using WordPress since 2004, I can remember when it didn’t have any media management capabilities at all. How to manage Media Library in Luma fusion? How Is The WordPress Media Library Different Now?
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