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
Hi
I too have the “cheatin’ uh” error when adding images to Shiba galleries since upgrading to WP 3.4 (and now 3.4.1.
This happens with Twenty Eleven, as well as Studiopress Genesis (parent) and BeeCrafty (child) themes.
It would seem to be a conflict between SML and the latest WP – is there a fix?
Thanks
K
Since the last WordPress update (3.4) I won’t be able to add new images to a gallery. Via the dashboard I open the gallery and use the ‘Add New’ button to add a new image, but when clicked I get an error which prompt me I’m cheating? The Dutch error shows ‘Vals aan het spelen?’ which means ‘Are you cheating?’. I’ve added a new WordPress user (with admin rights), but that doen’t seems to matter.
Screenshot of the error: http://cl.ly/HS5W
Problem is solved. I use the Themeforest Core WordPress theme, and the maker of that theme has provided a fix for this. Thanks anyway.
Hi!
I have the same error! But I can’t solve it. Could you tell me how do you did for solve? Because I have theme of Themforest also, the theme is Rhea, maybe is the same solve for this error. I’m gratefull in advanced, your comments.
A lot of thanks and I look forward your reply!
Hey, have a look at this fix!
http://support.themegoods.com/?knowledgebase=gallery-image-upload-issue-on-wordpress-3-4
Tried to install your media-library-plus cause cannot find anything really useful to order the content of a wp gallery.
But after install and activate the plugin, an error 500 appears (solved when I remove the plugin folder).
These are the logs.
PHP Warning: require_once(/var/www/helena/wp-content/plugins/shiba-media-library/shiba-mlib-parallel.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/helena/wp-content/themes/Anan/plugins/shiba-media-library/shiba-media-library.php on line 47
[Sun Jun 10 16:32:26 2012] [error] [client 85.58.62.158] PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/var/www/helena/wp-content/plugins/shiba-media-library/shiba-mlib-parallel.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’) in /var/www/helena/wp-content/themes/Anan/plugins/shiba-media-library/shiba-media-library.php on line 47
Any lack of files? any comment?
Dear Fonsito,
The problem is your theme is already using an *older version* of shiba-media-library.
If you want to test the plugin, switch to the default TwentyTen or TwentyEleven theme, and reinstall the plugin.
Shiba is conflicting with NextGen gallery. The plugin was included with a theme and it’s limitations require the use of NextGen gallery. The issue is caused by the $this->helper->admin_init(); line in the shiba-media-library.php file on line 182. If I comment it out then NextGen works but then I can no longer add images to the Shiba galleries. I hope since Shiba contains fewer lines of code that it will not be to hard to fix this issue. I await your reply. Thank you very much.
Hello Tom,
I would not advise using both Shiba Media and NextGen together. Both plugins expand on the native media library and does similar things. Structurally, creating some galleries in Shiba Media and others in NextGen would be messy. Programmatically, the two plugins operate in the same space, but each go in a different direction. As a result, there will likely be many conflicts in many places.
The helper admin_init function loads many of the elements in Shiba Media, thus disabling that pretty much nullifies most of the plugin.
Probably the cleanest way to fix this issue is to get the theme creator or hire someone to adapt the theme to work on NextGen.
Just the plugin I was looking for, after my client attached all the images to posts, stopping them getting picked up by some custom functionality I added.
Many thanks. Saved me time manually updating the d/b. :o)
I respect what you did here. A gallery with custom post types is something I’m after for some time now, and it seems like nobody have every outdone you. I’m having some difficulties however.
1. First when I click on the thumbnails they do not work. Only the first picture is displayed as main and cannot be changed. I’ve tried changing the slider type, but with no avail.
2. Permalink structure does not work. I’ve tried adding at: Gallery Structure: %gallery% . Then I tried to open site.com/gallery/gallery-name instead of the site.com/?gallery=gallery-name and it only redirectects me to site.com/?gallery=gallery-name again. Maybe it has something to do with my WordPress MultiSite installation.
Can you help me with these?
1. I am not sure what you mean. Is there a page that I can look at? What do you mean by “slider type”?
2. Try “/gallery/%gallery%”. It does not allow just %gallery% because that would result in a permalink conflict.
1. http://goo.gl/H4GBf
Here is a gallery page created, but it doesn’t work. When you click on the thumbnails nothing happens.
2. “/gallery/%gallery%” did the job! That’s perfect, thanks!
I’ve tried changing most of the gallery types (tiny is what I’m after, but it loads only a list of thumbnails, doesn’t even look like the one you have displayed) noobslide, galleria… and none of them loads fine. Is it some javascript problem? Maybe the plugin can’t access the js files or something?
I’m sorry for replying for the third time (you can delete my other posts) but now I’ve discovered that it is theme related. I’ve changed to the default one and it loads fine.
Do you have any recomendations on how should I include the galleries into my theme?
Thanks
I fixed it. All I needed to do is add before to enable the hooks for the javascript files. Sorry for the fourth posting, but this is the solution to my problems.
So if your gallery doesn’t display as it should in your theme, this is the solution folks. Now back to work 🙂
Sorry for double posting, but I forgot to write the error message: Fatal error: Call to a member function admin_init() on a non-object in /home/mozte175/public_html/clientes/tiosam/wp-content/plugins/shiba-media-library/shiba-media-library.php on line 182
Hi, I’m facing the same error message as Blondie1122 when trying to upload a picture in NextGEN Gallery.
I believe that the NextGEN gallery has its own image album (i.e. gallery) handling functions, so I would just use that.
I’m having the same problem. The theme I am using uses Shiba, but I want to use NextGen for my photo galleries. There appears to be a conflict
I applied a small fix to the shiba-media-library.php file by changing around line #183 from: $this->helper->admin_init(); and changed it to:
$vyep = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];;
if ($vyep =="/wp-admin/post.php" OR $vyep =="/wp-admin/post-new.php" ){
$this->helper->admin_init();
}
hi! I really like the plugin, but I have one question. If I have re-ordered images within the gallery (and the gallery is based on a tag), the gallery displays perfectly with the [gallery] shortcode.
However, when I drill in to view an image, the next/previous links are totally wrong. They seem almost random, or they have some relationship to when the images were uploaded. I am using the previous_image_link() and next_image_link() in my single image php page. What am I doing wrong? Help! Thanks!
Are you including the image into multiple different galleries?
In native WordPress, there is a one-to-one relationship between an image and its parent. This means that when using native WordPress commands, e.g. previous_image_link() and next_image_link(), only the last image position will be saved. I describe it in greater detail here-
http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/shiba-media-library-3-3
I purchased a theme for wordpress for a Realtor. The plug-in that feeds the newest homes for sale is having this issue with the media library.
Fatal error: Call to a member function init_admin() on a non-object in /home/content/18/6640618/html/wp-content/themes/Hermes/plugins/shiba-media-library/shiba-media-library.php on line 163
ANy idea how to fix. No one seems to have an answer and I can’t rebuild the whole site. Thanks!
Hmmm, the only thing that jumps up at me is that the plugins directory seem to be underneath the themes directory, which may cause some problems. However, it is difficult to say without doing onsite testing.