First of all sorry for dragging everyone back into an old discussion but I was wondering if anyone knows of any way of getting the search field to have focus (the caret to be inside the field) as soon as the media library window opens?

I have a LOT of images on a certain site and would like to be able to just start typing the name of an image as soon as the window opens in order to drill down the images shown.

Thanks in advance if anyone knows of any way of doing this.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks for great tutorial. I would like to get the post-slug when user drops image into text area (WP 4.1.1) and upload thick box appears.

I’ve tried it using the filtering but the post slug does not get saved!
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/183196/why-does-post-slug-not-get-saved-for-drafts

Any help greatly appreciated

Gerry

Thanks Claire
I was looking for a solution of this type

Great to hear! Thanks for posting your solution.

🙂 … Found a way – for now at least

This into functions.php (wonder if it will show it here):

/* BACKEND ONLY SHOW POSTS OF CURRENT USER _ THAT*S NOT AN ADMIN */

add_action(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘filter_posts_list’);
function filter_posts_list($query)
{
//$pagenow holds the name of the current page being viewed
global $pagenow;

//$current_user uses the get_currentuserinfo() method to get the currently logged in user’s data
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();

//Shouldn’t happen for the admin, but for any role with the edit_posts capability and only on the posts list page, that is edit.php
if(!current_user_can(‘administrator’) && current_user_can(‘edit_posts’) && (‘edit.php’ == $pagenow))
{
//global $query’s set() method for setting the author as the current user’s id
$query->set(‘author’, $current_user->ID);
$screen = get_current_screen();
add_filter(‘views_’.$screen->id, ‘remove_post_counts’);
}
}

function remove_post_counts($posts_count_disp)
{
//$posts_count_disp contains the 3 links, we keep ‘Mine’ and remove the other two.
unset($posts_count_disp[‘all’]);
unset($posts_count_disp[‘publish’]);

return $posts_count_disp;
}

… and then in my custom admin.css I added:

.media-frame-content .attachment-filters:first-child {
display:none;
}

Also, I spoke with Vladimir, the developer of the “User role editor” on the WP repository, and he then created this plugin that hides other users images, which can be useful for others (might as well add here, in case others are searching too):
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/view-own-posts-media-only/
🙂

Is this even possible – and if yes, do you know how?

The thing with WordPress is that most things are possible, but what you describe may require a fair amount of work.

I am only starting to play around with the new media manager interface, so I don’t know all of its ins and outs yet. If I were to attempt what you describe, I would probably create a new javascript class that extends from the existing media.controller.Library class. It is in the media-views.js file.

Not sure at this point if this would be the best class, but it would be my current best guess.

Another possibility, is that there may be a way to hook into the existing ajax calls to return our own queries. This may be easier to do, but it would be more messy and difficult to maintain in the future.

I do have a question that I hope you’ll consider:
I’ve been searching for a couple of days now, for a way to filter the library view (in WP 3.5) to ONLY display media from the user (even when editor) but all snippets I’ve found fail for some reason. SO… Figured that if one can filter the library view from the dropdown, so only “media uploaded for this post” is displaying by default and nothing else, that it might do the trick.

Is this even possible – and if yes, do you know how?

Basically what I mean is from (when using firebug) the: .media-toolbar-secondary in the pop-up menu, then -part, to only display the (and thereby only the connected media to the specific post) and none of the rest from the dropdown?
Preferably for both editors and ordinary users alike, otherwise just for all, even admins if easier.

I would so much appreciate your help on this as I’m getting close to losing my mind 🙂