Easily assign categories to media with a clean, simple, and searchable category meta box. Then use the gallery shortcode to display category galleries
| Author: | Eddie Moya (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.3 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.5 |
| Plugin version: | 1.5 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 16-01-2012 |
| Last updated: | 18-12-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 68 |
| Rated by: | 7 |
| Plugin URI: | http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-cat... |
| Total downloads: | 29 111 |
| Active installs: | 600+ |
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Allows users to assign categories (or other taxonomy terms) to items in their Media Library with a clean and simplified, searchable version of the standard category meta box.
The "Search Categories" field allows you to narrow your search for a category as you type - this functionality is not native to WordPress but is instead borrowed from Jason Corradino's
Searchable Categories plugin. If you would like to enable this feature for your posts
download his plugin here
Since WordPress 3.5 now supports attachment taxonomy, the work of adding a metabox to the attachment editor is happening entirely inside of WordPress. This is great, and we now have true metaboxes for taxonomy - they core team has also accepted my patches which caused several headaches for this plugin. Media Categories 1.5 takes advantage of the new Media Modal - with this plugin, you can now edit a images categories directly from the modal screen. I've also fixed some long standing bugs with the shortcode gallery functionality.
Updates
- Since version 1.5 : Supports the new WordPress 3.5 by adding the metabox to the new Media Modal. Also fixed bugs in the gallery shorcode behavior. All while still supporting 3.3.x - 3.4.x
- Since version 1.4 : This plugin allows for multiple metaboxes to be created for any number of taxonomies.
- Since version 1.3 : A filter has been added to allow developers to modify which taxonomy is being used. See 'Other Notes' > 'Taxonomy Filter Usage' for details
- Since version 1.2 : This plugin extends the native shortcode of WordPress so that it has a 'category' parameter. See the "Shortcode Usage" under "Other Notes" for more details.
Screenshots
This plugin will include clean, simple to use, searchable categories to your Media Editor page.
Use categories in much the same way you use them on your posts and pages.
Filter categories as you type, very useful if you have a lot of categories to look through (thanks to Jason Corradino's "Searchable Categories" plugin)
Can this plugin work with a custom taxonomy, or a built-in taxonomy other than Categories?
Yes, modify the taxonomy used by a metabox by making use of the mc_taxonomy filter.
They can also create additional metaboxes for other taxonomies by creating new instances
of the Media_Categories class.
See the ‘Multiple Taxonomy Metaboxes’ section (a.k.a ‘Other Notes’) for more details on how
this is done.
Can any of this customization explained above be done without writing any code?
No. Currently there is no way to change the taxonomy, or create additional taxonomy metaboxes
in the Media Library without adding a little bit of PHP (preferably to you theme).
Have no fear however, I do have intentions to add magical plugin options pages to allow
as much as possible to be done without development – sorry but I have no timeline for when this
might happen.
Is there any way to see all the attachment/media items associated to a category/taxonomy term, the way we can with Posts?
In WordPress 3.5, you can now see any taxonomy enabled for attachments the same way you see Categories for Posts. For earlier versions, I’m afraid the answer is no.
I found a bug, or I would like to suggest/request a feature, can I submit it?
Of course, thats great! I love hearing how people want to use my plugins, and if you look though my blog or
this plugins support forum, you’ll see I have a tendency of fulfilling people’s requests ( but no promises :p )
Bug reports are extremely helpful! Most of my plugins have been developed while at work, and publicly submitted bug reports help
prove the point that Open Source is the way to go. It amounts to free public quality assurance testing. So please please please report
any bugs to you see. Preferably on the WordPress plugin directory, but if you feel so inclined you may report them on my blog http:://eddiemoya.com
ChangeLog
1.5
- Updated for WordPress 3.5
- For WordPress 3.5 – Stop showing our custom metabox in the main image editor, let users use the built in metaboxes.
- For WordPress 3.5 – Add customized metabox to the new Media Modal attachment details.
- Bugfix: Gallery Shortcode would only work if a taxonomy and term were provided. This has been solved for all supported version of WordPress.
- Bugfix: The search filter on the metabox – deleting everying in the search filter resulted in no items being found. This has been solved for all supported version of WordPress.
1.4.1
- Missing javascript update for the 1.4 update.
1.4
- New feature! Add multiple metaboxes for media, one for any desired taxonomy by a developer.
1.3.1
- Bug Fix: Workaround to conflicts caused by the way WordPress handles attachments with taxonomies enabled, causing terms with the same name of conflict.
- Relevant Trac Ticket
1.3
- Added a filter to allow developers to change the taxonomy being used for their media.
- Modified the Gallery Shortcode functionality to work with any chosen taxonomy.
1.2
- Added
'category' parameter to
- Modified the Searchable Categories script to make the search field case insensitive.
- Fixed styling problem on Media Library modal windows – the filter and styling were not working.
1.1
- Changed jQuery to use
.live() rather than .on() for compatability with WordPress earlier than 3.3 – jQuery 1.7 was only added in v3.3
- Removed superfluous file which was accidentally included from a different plugin of mine. Would cause fatal errors if both plugins were turned on at the same time.
1.0
