The purpose of the Shiba Media Library Plugin is to facilitate the manipulation and grouping of images within the existing WordPress image library framework.
[Most recent Shiba Media Library updates]
December, 2015
Tested on WordPress 4.4. No changes needed.September 13th 2015 – Release 3.9.1
- Updated thumbnails column for WordPress 4.3.
- Tested on WordPress 4.3.
When creating permalink structures, care must to taken to ensure that the new structure does not override existing post, page, category, and tag permalinks.
Key Features of the Shiba Media Library Plugin
- Enables image tagging and allows you to group images into galleries by using their tags. Images can also to added manually using the regular media manager interface.
- In addition to images/attachments, galleries may also contain posts and other galleries. In this way, you group not only images, but also posts, galleries, and any combination of these object types. Here are some fun things you can achieve with expanded galleries.
- Easily search for posts, pages, galleries, and more in the expanded media manager interface, and include them directly into a gallery. The days of painfully hunting for IDs are over!
- Freely order images, posts, and pages within a gallery.
- Gallery objects get saved into your WordPress export files. This allows you to keep a backup of your gallery objects, as well as move them from blog to blog.
- Expanded media manager image search that allows you to find images based on title and alt text.
- Expanded search that allows you to find attachments and galleries based on titles, tags, and categories.
- Show the number of posts an image containing an image in the Media >> Library screen.
- View most-used tags for post, attachment, and gallery objects.
- Quick Edit image attachments.
- Adds a new drop-down menu to your existing WordPress Media Library. This menu will allow you to do bulk attachments to both attached and non-attached images.
- Detach a set of images from their post so that they revert back to their unattached state.
The Power of Galleries and Tags
Gallery objects are stored in the regular WordPress post database. In this way, you get to leverage almost all existing functions that are available for WordPress post objects including displaying your galleries using the WordPress gallery shortcode.
Galleries created with the Shiba Media Library Plugin should also work with other plugins that support the WordPress gallery shortcode.
This entire plugin operates within the current WordPress Media Library framework so any tag changes will automatically be reflected in your WordPress gallery shortcode results.
If you want to extract images with particular tags using PHP, just include the tags in your WordPress get_posts command.
$args = array( 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'tag' => 'tag-a,tag-b,tag-c' ); $attachments = get_posts( $args );
Why Can’t I Use Tags in the Gallery Shortcode?
The Shiba Media Library addresses the media library back-end and sets up tag links in the WordPress database. I.e., there is a link in the database saying that a particular image is linked to a given tag.
For tags to work in the gallery shortcode, it must also be supported on the gallery front-end – i.e., by the plugin that renders your images. The Shiba Gallery plugin, for example, supports image tags.
However, most gallery rendering plugins do not yet support this extension because it is currently not part of the native WordPress gallery shortcode and is therefore not a standard.
Shiba Media Library Updates
Shiba Media Library 3.9
May 2nd 2015
- Updated image search function (in the Media Manager interface) so that it works for attachment titles, alt text, as well as captions.
- Tested plugin on WordPress 4.2.
Shiba Media Library 3.8.2
September 17th 2014
- Updated the Add-Media templates and interface so that images can be properly selected and inserted.
- Updated the media table in the Edit Gallery screen so that it renders properly in WP 4.0.
- Updated some deprecated functions.
- Tested plugin on WordPress 4.0.
Shiba Media Library 3.8
April 22nd 2014
- Updated plugin directory and url paths to use standard functions instead of constants.
- Updated the Galleries >> Options screen to use the new wordpress update settings system (add_settings_error).
- Fixed a bug in the Media screen that occurs when expanded bulk operations are applied to an empty image set.
- Tested plugin on WordPress 3.9.
Shiba Media Library 3.7.2
Dec 24th 2013
- Fixed some warning messages and make sure post images show up when editing a gallery.
Shiba Media Library 3.7
Sept 26th 2013
- Posts, pages, and supporting custom post types can now be included in galleries from within the media manager interface.
- Expanded search for images to include title as well as alt text.
- Show number of posts that an image is included in (i.e. included in post content). Gallery images are not counted.
- New options page. You may now enable or disable the image quick edit, number of posts, and expanded media manager search functionalities.
- Fixed URL too long bug.
Shiba Media Library 3.6
Jan 7th 2013
- Updated for 3.5.
- Plugin gallery objects now use the id list system introduced in WordPress 3.5. Use the new media manager interface to upload and attach images to gallery objects.
- Fixed quick edit functions.
- Updated deprecated media functions.
- Encapsulated the plugin options page within an object class.
- Fixed gallery and attachment tag links in tag-metabox.
- Added an attachment_link filter so that %category% gallery-permalinks translate properly.
- Properly redirect bulk operations and delete permanently operation in the Edit Gallery screen.
Shiba Media Library 3.4
August 20th 2012
- Updated for WordPress 3.4.
- Added Quick Edit functionality to images. Quick Edit capability is accessible in the Media Library and Edit Gallery screens.
- Image ordering will now be saved in both draft and published modes.
- Updated old javascript functions to use jQuery.
Shiba Media Library 3.3
August 31st 2011
- Added ability to order images within Gallery objects.
- By going into Galleries >> Options, you may now change the gallery shortcode used for viewing a Gallery object.
- Gallery objects now have Shiba Widgets support.
- The “Insert into Post” button should now appear on custom post types.
- Removed image parallelization option. As outlined in Google Page Speed, new browsers now allow more than two concurrent connections per hostname. As such, the image parallelization option is no longer needed.
Shiba Media Library 3.2
February 16th, 2011
- Updated for WordPress 3.1, RC4. Tested on WP 3.0 and WP 3.1,RC4.
- Fixed bulk trash operation on Gallery screen.
- Permalinks now work properly on network activation and deactivation in WordPress Multisite.
- Columns from other plugins are now properly added in the Media Library screen.
Shiba Media Library 3.1
January 17th, 2011
- Updated for WordPress 3.1. Tested in WP 3.0 and WP 3.1,RC2.
- Fixed numerous bugs in the gallery query system. Gallery types should now work properly.
- Cleaned up the plugin so that gallery objects are now always custom post types. As a result the plugin requires WP 3.0 and above. If you are using WP 2.9, then please download Shiba Media Library 3.0.
Shiba Media Library 3.0.3
November 25th, 2010
- Fixed bulk operations in the Google Chrome browser. Shiba Media Library now has its own menu in the media screen.
- Cleaned up the gallery tagging system so that tagged gallery images can now be properly ordered with order, orderby, numberposts, and offset arguments. This makes it much easier to enable gallery paging.
Shiba Media Library 3.0
August 13th 2010
- Added ability to append image tags in bulk as requested by Peder.
- Re-enabled Insert into Post button even for images that are already attached.
Shiba Media Library 2.9
- Shiba Media Library is now updated for WordPress 3.0. It should work in 3.0 and 2.9+.
- All your previous gallery objects should still work seamlessly in the new update.
- Expanded image attachment and detachment functions are now better integrated into the standard WordPress Media Library interface.
- You may set your gallery permalink structure by going into Settings >> Permalinks
- Fixed PHP notices. Thanks to Writemcodeboy for alerting me to this issue.
Media Library Plugin 2.7
- Added in the ability to parallelize your image links. This enables more images to be downloaded simultaneously, and improves page speed.
- Also fixed some bugs associated with the permalink creation function. In particular, I refined the regular expression for gallery attachment images and added more rules for validating the gallery permalink structure.
Media Library Plugin 2.6
- As requested by Keoshi, I have added in the ability to edit your entire gallery permalink structure.
Media Library Plugin 2.5
- I just finished making some large changes to the permalink redirect code. If you are having permalink redirect issues, in particular with your feeds, then please download the latest version.
Media Library Plugin 2.4
- Added most-used attachment and gallery tag views.
- Permalink support and customization for gallery objects.
- Expanded media and gallery search.
- Plugin is cleaner and more secure.
Thanks to A.M. for making many of the great suggestions that went into this plugin update.
Media Library Plugin 2.3
- Expanded gallery objects so that they may contain posts, pages, and other gallery objects; in addition to image attachments.
- You may now assign thumbnails to galleries. This uses the Post Thumbnail system introduced in WordPress 2.9, so you will need at least version 2.9 and a gallery front-end that knows how to render posts to fully realize the power of this feature.
- You can now navigate to gallery objects, just like you do with attachments. Gallery object pages are rendered using the gallery shortcode.
** Thanks to Keoshi for making many of the great suggestions that went into this plugin update.
Media Library Plugin 2.2
- Fixed a bug in Release 2.1 where Trash links for posts and pages no longer work properly. This is an important bug fix so please download the latest version of the plugin.
Media Library Plugin 2.1
- Added bulk-actions, search, and date filter to the Manage Gallery screen. Now you can perform the same menu view operations on galleries as you can with posts and pages.
- Integrated the Manage Gallery menu with the WordPress Trash system. Now you can move galleries to the trash, untrash, or delete them permanently.
- Fixed various bugs with gallery links, trash links, as well as image tags. The gallery and tag system should now work a lot more smoothly.
Media Library Plugin 2.0
- Allows you to tag your images. Through tagging, you can include the same image into multiple galleries.
Media Library Plugin 1.0
- Allows you to re-attach multiple images to any post from the Media Library panel.
- Enables bulk image detachments.
- Works on WordPress 2.8
jumapili says
First off please note I am running wordpress on windows 2008.
So I am having a problem. When the Shiba Media Gallery plug in is activated. And I attempt to Attach Images to a page. WordPress throws a
404 – File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
http: //www.everythingcyber.com/wp-admin/upload.php?s=&_wpnonce=56899fca6a&_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp-admin%2Fupload.php&action=-1&m=0&paged=1&attachments%5B224%5D%5Bpost_excerpt%5D=&attachments%5B224%5D%5Burl%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everythingcyber.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F04%2F08_Thumbnail.png&attachments%5B209%5D%5Bpost_excerpt%5D=&attachments%5B209%5D%5Bu
ShibaShake says
It looks like a problem with the server not interpreting the ‘%2F’ encoded url slashes.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9206835/2f-in-url-breaks-and-does-not-reference-to-the-php-file-required
Turn off Shiba Media Library, and test the attach images operation in the same way. Does it work?
If it does, go into the file shiba-mlib-permalink.php and comment out line 28 –
// add_filter( ‘attachment_link’, array($this,’attachment_link’), 10, 2);
Test to see if it works.
If not, then I can take a look on a test site on your server.
Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi says
Awesome,
Why you didn’t add this plugin to wordpress.org plugins directory ?
ananth says
few quickies
– is there a way to display the tags below the images?
– trying to use it with ‘gallery carousel without jetpack’ for fullscreen carousel, but doesnt seem to work. is it a known issue?
thanks in advance
ShibaShake says
I just tested the ‘gallery carousel without jetpack’ plugin on my test site and it seems to work fine with Shiba Media Library. Try disabling Shiba Media Library, and then just test the carousel out on a regular gallery to see if it works. There may be a conflict with something else.
As for displaying tags, that would depend on the front-end gallery that does the rendering, i.e. ‘gallery carousel without jetpack’. You would need to extract the tags and then add that into the rendering of the gallery.
Shiba Media Library just deals with the back-end stuff.
Brad says
I’m currently running WordPress version 3.3.2 with Shiba Media Library 3.3 installed.
My site is designed to display ticket stubs by year. Each year has a page, and all images of stubs for that year are attached to the page. The page then displays the gallery for that page.
I’ve recently decided that I want to allow for another form of navigation that allows users to view the images by opponent, as well.
So what I’ve done is created one Gallery for each opponent, and attached a single Tag to each gallery (i.e. one gallery called “Auburn” with a single tag attached to it called “auburn”
I then created a page that links to each of the galleries, so when I open the Auburn Gallery, I can see all tickets where Tech played Auburn.
So it seems to be working OK, but I’ve found one problem…when I update the gallery, it changes the Menu Order property on my tickets on the pages that they are actually attached to. So let’s say that Auburn was the fifth game of the 1950 season…if I update the Auburn Gallery, and then go to the 1950 season, the menu order for that Auburn ticket will have changed, and it now displays out of order.
To get around this I’ve simply been creating the Galleries first and then just tagging the images after…this seems to keep the problem from occurring. However, I’d like to go back and add notes, descriptions, etc. to the galleries after the fact without having to worry about the images being displayed out of order on their base page.
Is there something that I can do to get around this? Please feel free to e-mail me at the address above.
Thanks!
Brad
Brad says
OK, so I did a bit more reading and found where you specified that only one ID can be stored.
Is there a way that I can modify the code to not update the Order ID in the database?
I think I’m going to update all of my image ID’s with an intelligent Order ID (i.e. the date of the game). Then no matter what gallery it displays in it will be in the correct order.
ShibaShake says
Hello Brad,
The easiest way to change ordering attributes is to do it on the gallery shortcode itself – using the orderby attribute.
If you are using Shiba Gallery on the frontend then you can use orderby=”shiba_menu_order” to get multiple orderings.
If you want to change the ordering code, it is in shiba-mlib-add.php.
Brad says
I’m not sure what the difference is between orderby=”shiba_menu_order” and orderby=”menu_order”
Does it do something different?
ShibaShake says
The difference is described here-
http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/shiba-media-library-3-3
Orderby can also be used with post_date, titles, etc-
http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode#Options
Brad says
So I’ve found the code where you’re updating the menu_order in the mySQL database:
function update_media_menu_order($media_items) {
global $wpdb;
$i = 1;
foreach ($media_items as $item) {
$query = $wpdb->prepare(“UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET menu_order = %d WHERE ID = %d”, $i, $item);
$wpdb->query($query);
$i++;
}
}
What I’d like to do is comment this out to preserve the original menu order of my images. If I do this, will the shiba_menu_order still be updated by dragging and dropping the images in the gallery edit window?
i.e. will it break anything else?
ShibaShake says
shiba_menu_order is stored differently so it shouldn’t affect that. I don’t think it will break anything else, but it is not something I have tested for, so I cannot say for sure.
I would try it out on a test site first, and see how it goes.
Kate says
First of all, thank you for this great plugin…it is exactly what I have been looking for. I do have few questions (apologies if you already answered these, but I looked through the previous comments and could not find an answer):
1. Since installing the media library plugin, my images are no longer inserted into the post code with a title tag. Do you know how to include this?
2. I want to make a gallery of galleries with your gallery plugin, but I can not figure out how to populate it. Any explanation is appreciated!
Thank you!
ShibaShake says
Hmmm, not sure what you mean here. Do you mean when you click on the Add Media button in the Edit Post screen and then insert an image, something is missing from the inserted html? If you could give me a concrete example, e.g. this html was generated before, and this other html was generated after that would be helpful.
Create each gallery as a Gallery object. Tag each gallery object you want to include with the same tag. Then just create a parent gallery object with that same tag, and click on “Only Galleries” in the Edit Gallery screen. The radio button for “Only Galleries” is right under the title of the gallery.
If you are using Shiba Gallery Plugin you can also include the relevant gallery ids in the ids list or include the relevant gallery category. E.g.
Kate says
Thank you for your fast reply! I will try the gallery of galleries with your notes. As for the image titles –
It used to insert:
Now it inserts:
Kate says
Sorry..the code disappeared when I published my comment. I left off the opening and closing < to see if it would publish.
used to be –
ShibaShake says
Ok, I will look into it but it may take some time. Got a lot on my task list right now. 😀
ShibaShake says
Hello Kate,
This appears to be a WordPress 3.5 change and is not plugin related.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-add-image-title-after-35-update
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18984
Kate says
Thank you for looking into this. I suppose I did update to WP 3.5 and install your plugin on the same day!
As for the gallery of galleries..it worked perfectly, thank you!
ShibaShake says
You are very welcome. Good luck with your site!
Michael says
Hello,
Nice plugin, however it took me 20 min to find the download link on the page. The idea of the image with a link in it is very very weird.
ShibaShake says
Thanks Michael. I have removed the background image and made the links more prominent.
Jorge Orpinel says
I suggest adding an attachment tag filter to the media library interface. That would be very useful as it is with the Media Tags plugin.
ShibaShake says
You can do a tag search by using the search box at the very top of the media screen. There is a drop-down menu to the right of it that allows you to search based on title or tags.
Wilco says
Sorry, but it is not clear to me how the tag search works. I added tags to some images, but when I select “tag” from the drop down menu, add a search term in the text field and click the “search media” button, I see all images. What goes wrong here?
There is also a “filter” button next to the text field, but that doesn’t work either. Any help is much appreciated.
ShibaShake says
In the text box next to the “Search Media” button, type in the search term. If you want to search based on tags then go to the drop down menu and select “tag” then click on “Search Media”.
I just tested it on my site and it seems to be working fine.
Aficionado says
Hi,
I have installed and activated Shiba Media Library plugin 3.4.5 on a WP 3.4.2, and no detach option can be found in the Media Library, either in the dropdown menu of Bulk Actions or elsewhere. What might be wrong? (A couple of other gallery plugins sit in the Plugins directory, but none are activated.)
Thank you.
ShibaShake says
When you go the the Media >> Library screen, is there a section up top labelled Shiba Media Library? If so, the drop down menu in that top section should have the detach options.
Otherwise, I would switch to a default theme, turn on debugging options, and see what errors come up.
Aficionado says
My mistake, I did not realize there is another “Bulk action” drop down menu at the top.
Thanks a lot for pointing this out. Detachment works great.
Unfortunately, now it is attachment that stopped working, because the URL length exceeds the server’s limit.
Somehow the URLs setting up the attachment grew huge (almost 10,000 character long) after activating the plugin, as they seem to contain all current attachments as variables, for some reason.
Is this normal behavior and the server limit is at fault?
ShibaShake says
No, that should not happen.
I just tested things on my test server and could not replicate what you describe.
Some things to try on a *test site* –
1. Turn off the plugin and then try attaching the same image using the standard “Attach” link.
2. Turn on the plugin and then try attaching an image using the “Attach” link.
I would try this on a default theme with no other plugin activated.
Mashav says
Hi,
The same issue started happening in my media library as well after using the plugin for over a year.
The problem isn’t only attaching a picture to a post which gives this error: “414 Request-URI Too Large
The requested URL’s length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.”
But also anything I try to do in this screen, searching, editing information etc.
Disabling and enabling the plugin didn’t help but interestingly this error is user specific – I get the error with the admin user but not with a different user.
Please help! I don’t want to change plugin because your’s is great!
Thanks,
Mashav
ShibaShake says
I am currently working on updating Shiba Gallery for HTML5 and WordPress 3.6. I plan to update Shiba Media Library next, but all this will take some time.
My guess is that the error occurs when too many items are included in the bulk operation. Once it occurs though, some state may be kept in the browser cache/state that causes it to happen again. Try –
1. Closing the window and opening another.
2. Logging out and then logging in as the same user.
Let me know what happens. The more details the better, as that will help with fixing the issue. Thanks.
Mashav says
Hi and thanks for the answer.
So the problem now is larger than I initially thought:
* Same error occurs when I try to attach even only one image to a post (looks like it’s attempting to attach many other images thought by the url…)
* With a new user I created it’s messed up as well the same way.
* Updating and editing information in the “media” page isn’t updating after leaving page.
* logging in and out didn’t help
* new window or even a window in a different browser didn’t help
* trying to use the plugin on a new testing site failed as well
* deleting it altogether and reinstalling – didn’t help
* installing an older version (3.4.7) didn’t help
This plugin was working perfectly until now and I already have all the galleries etc working with it so it’s gonna be super difficult to loose this plugin :/
I’m pasting the line of the long url it’s trying to use:
htp://staging.eatingcookingfooding.com/wp-admin/upload.php?s=&_wpnonce=de5dc24c04&_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp-admin%2Fupload.php&action=-1&m=0&paged=1&attachments%5B11665%5D%5Bpost_excerpt%5D=A+group+pic+-+thank+you+all+for+coming%21%21+&attachments%5B11665%5D%5Burl%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fstaging.eatingcookingfooding.com%2Fpublic_html%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F08%2FDSC_4681.jpg& …
ShibaShake says
Ok, I am a bit confused. Can you run me through exactly what you are trying to do and in what screen? Step by step?
In terms of attaching images to a gallery, the best way to do that now, is to edit the gallery, click on the “Upload or Attach Images” button, and select images using the popup.
When did the problem start occurring? Is this on WP 3.6?
Mashav says
Hi
so yes, the problem occurs with your 3.6 version and the 3.6 WP version. It’s not the gallery what I’m trying to do is this:
1. goto media -> library
2. select a picture and click on “attach” (attach to a post on the media table).
3. select a post to attach to -> select
4. in result I get the “too long url” error page.
same thing happens when I try to attach a bulk of pictures to a post using the bulk actions drop down, or even when I try to use the media search box.
The problem started only about two weeks ago and before it was doing just fine. Deactivating the plugin brings everything back to working as usual with no errors – but I really want to keep using your great plugin.
hope you can help. You can also contact me throw email to make it easier.
ShibaShake says
Thanks for the explanation. I will look into it after I am done updating my Shiba Gallery plugin.
Mashav says
Thanks a lot
can you please update me when there’s a fix/solution by email please?
ShibaShake says
Sure. Will shoot you an email once I post an updated version.
Jony says
Hi, great job! It’s exactly what I was looking for.
I have a quick question, how can I load the gallery in different template of page that is different from my blog structure because layout and structure must be different.
Thanks!!!
ShibaShake says
Gallery is a custom post type, so one possibility is to copy the template you want into single-gallery.php. This may also be theme dependent.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Type_Templates
Jony says
Cheers, it’s work, was easy 🙂
Chuck Gregory says
I’m having an issue on a client site. The tags column is no longer showing in the media library. The capability of adding/setting tags is there, but I can’t see the tags in the library display.
I am using codepress admin columns and I added some additional columns to the display; that worked in conjunction with yours a few days ago but (since 3.4.1 upgrade?) I can’t get the tags to show any more. I tried deactivating and reactivating shiba media library, but that did not help.
Any ideas?
Chuck Gregory says
I figured out the answer. It was my own fault, nothing wrong with the plugin. I had neglected to add up all my percentages when I added columns to the display, and the tags column was just getting pushed off the screen because I had well over 100% allocated. Duh. Sorry to bother you.