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.
Shiba Media Library Plugin Menu.
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.
Example gallery that is rendered using the Shiba Gallery Plugin
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
Heya Keoshi,
I have added in the ability to edit the entire gallery permalink structure.
Please let me know if you run into any problems and have new feature suggestions.
I will test and implement new features, I’ll notice you soon
thank you!
Hi Keoshi,
Always good to see you.
Currently, the plugin replaces %postname% in your permalink structure with {gallery base}/%galleryname%. Therefore galleries should show up as –
htt://mysite.com/noticias/galleries/gallery-name
Please let me know if that is not the case.
If you want the gallery permalink to have a different structure, I can insert a filter into the function so that you may alter the gallery permalink structure itself.
What do you want the gallery permalink to look like?
Thanks for the quick reply!
In my site, the news are under with the following structure
/noticias/%postname%
resulting:
http://mysite.com/noticias/{post-title-example}
if apply the word: “galerias” as ‘gallerybase’ for galleries, it results:
http://mysite.com/noticias/galerias/{album-title-example}
I like to have the ‘galleries’ under only ‘/galerias/’ suffix. wich is better to SEO and avoid confusions with the news (noticias)
ie.
http://mysite.com/galerias/%postname%
here is my current permalink structure if it helps
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/18/permalinks.png
one more time, thanks for support
hello again!
I updated your plugin to test the permalinks option and I’ve noticed that the url is the same in my site, even if I add “galleries” into gallery base
I think this happens because my index page is a page called “noticias” the galleries now is located at htt://mysite.com/noticias/galleries/gallery-name
my custom permalink estructure is “/noticias/%postname%”
any sugestions?
nice plugin shiva!
in multimedia library, i try to search multimedia by tag but nothing happening?, may be there is a bug.
i think a NICE feature to add is searh multimedia by post name, so in this way the neet to use a image tag is less important.
and another HUGH feature may be to import images directly from a url folder!
that’s all, best regard, pescadito
Thanks for reporting the bug Pescadito. I have fixed it in the latest release.
Hmmm, I am not sure what you mean. Do you mean search by the post name slug rather than the post title?
Yeah that was something I considered really early on, but I really wanted a plugin that would work together with the current WordPress media library which assumes that all the images are in the upload folder.
There may be many places in the system that make that assumption, so changing something so fundamental to the core may destabilize many other parts in the system.
Add – after thinking about this some more, I think it will be very possible to do this through the use of rewrite/redirect rules. I will put it on the list for future additions.
hello shibashake, and thank for thinking in this points!
actually i change a bit my point of view:
1) you are rigth: in library multimedia page, i wish to search multimedia library by post title name! so in this way i haven’t really need of ‘tag’ because i find old pictures by post title and reattach or manage it in any way.
2) for the hugh import fro url directory, i finally found http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-from-server/ that make a good work and is enough to me.
3) another nice option to add is the ability to deattach the attached file instead delete the attached file (i mean both options are needed)
so for the meantime i use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/change-attachment-parent/ to delete one attachment if i needed
that’s all, the rest work very well to me and i prefer shiba to others media libraries because i have a more standard access to attached files.
thank again, pescadito
The place to hook into is the ‘restrict_manage_posts’ action hook. You should be able to do what you describe by replacing the global $wp_query which is later used to render the list of attachments.
It seems that hooking into ‘restrict_manage_posts’ and then calling query_posts or wp($q) with your own query arguments should do what you want.
The original list of attachments are generated using the wp_edit_attachments_query() function so you can also use that as a starting point.
This is the same mechanism used within the general WordPress Loop.
Hi, thank you for this really great plugin (and also explanation article about its creation – it was very helpfull). Is there any chance to simply limit users (subscribers) to see only their files in Media library? And what about showing only files with specified media tag to specified user? I tried to find any hook or filter, but wit no success 🙁 Thank you very much for your help…
Hi Alex,
I would use get_posts and just include in the tag argument.
$tag is a comma separated tag slug list.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
Do you want to add the external link only at the front-end? or do you also want to add it on the back-end? If you want to add it to be back-end, I would look into using add_post_meta which will allow you to add new attributes to post objects (i.e. image attachments)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_meta
If you just want to add it to the front-end, then that would depend on the front-end gallery plugin you are using.
oh, and is it possible to add an external link for each image??
kind regards,
Hi Shibashake,
first off, tx for the plugin. I have just downloaded and i am testing with it.
I do have a question, as i am designing a simple gallery view (just x rows with 4 images) and i still like to use your plugin. I was wondering how i can get the images with a certain tag???
I like to use a loop function.
Any tips, suggestions ?
regards,
Hello again
I’ve updated the plugin, and I see you have supported the post thumbnail option.
I implemented your plugin in a website that I’m working (with a little tweaks in my theme), this is my website www. salesianos.pe (look at “Galeria’s section”) , and I have a question: How I can create a page (archives page) and display into them the galleries or albums?
another question is:
is posible to modify or personalize the url to handle this?
i.e. mydomain.com/galleries (for gallery’s archives)
mydomain/galleries/[gallery_postname] (for the overview of the gallery)
mydomain/galleries/[gallery_postname]/[current_photo_postname] (single photo)
If you have noticed in my site, the galleries always are in /noticias/ directory, this is because I’ve configured to display a page in home and the post below “noticias” ulr
I wish have all galeries below “galeries” directory, same as above explained
I hope you can help me with this, and again sorry for my english and so thank you for the plugin!
Keoshi,
Good to see you again.
The most elegant way to do this, would be to create a category for all the galleries you want to group together and then render the whole category. This would however require a gallery front-end that knows how to deal with categories. I have updated the Shiba Gallery Plugin to render categories, so you may just use that. Or feel free to check out the code and see how to include that in your own gallery front-end.
Another way to do this would be through the back-end – but it is not as elegent and a bit more messy. You could assign the same tag to all the galleries you want to group together, and then create a meta-gallery with the same tag to include all of those galleries. Check the “Only galleries” option on the meta-gallery. This will group all the galleries together – then you can just render the meta-gallery.
In this case, your gallery front-end would need to know how to render gallery type objects. You can also check out the Shiba Gallery Plugin code for an example of how to do this.
Currently, galleries use the same permalink system as posts. You can probably change the permalink structure by writing a hook into the post get permalink function – get_post_permalink. This is the relevant filter call –
apply_filters(‘post_type_link’, $post_link, $id, $leavename);
I will add it to the list for a future release although I may not get to it for a while because I am working on another plugin.