Customizing upload options

Good to hear from you again and thanks for your questions.

I am not sure which “meta fields” you have in mind; d you mean WordPress standard fields such as ALT Text and Description? If so, I regret that MLA does not have any mechanism for removing these from the Quick Edit or Bulk Edit areas or the Edit Media screen. You might be able to hide them by adding CSS styles to your theme’s style sheets.

You asked “Also, why can’t I see and select existing tags in bulk edit’s tag field?” For flat taxonomies such as Att. Tags, MLA follows the WordPress conventions for editing term assignments. This includes an “auto suggest” feature; if you type a few letters of the term a list of existing terms will pop up and you can choose one if it’s correct. If you prefer to display a checklist of available terms you can change the option setting for that taxonomy:

1. Navigate to the Settings/Media LIbrary Assistant General tab.
2. Scroll down to the “Taxonomy Support” secton.
3. Find the taxonomy you want to change and check the correcponding box in the “Checklist” column.
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Save Changes” to record the new setting.

I regret the news is not better, but I am marking this topic resolved simply because I have answered your questions. Thanks for your understanding and your continued interest in the plugin.

CSS was good enough. Auto suggest tags was just stuck or something, it works now. I have a feature suggestion: same kind of media status as pages and articles have (published, waiting for approval, etc). I would like to have new media added by lower user roles have waiting-for-approval status as default.

Thanks for your update with the good news on the resolution of your issues.

The “media status” idea is interesting, but it would be more appropriate for a WordPress Core enhancement as it touches many WordPress functions and features. There is an active project to improve the Media Library that you might direct your suggestion to:

Media Library – Make WordPress Core

How about setting a default upload att.category? With that it would be possible to change where the medias are displayed.

Thanks for the new suggestion, which I’ve been thinking about. I know WordPress provides a default category for new Posts.

Have you looked at the “Bulk Edit Area” that MLA adds to the Media/Add New (Upload New Media) screen? It includes a feature to define, then Export/Import/Reset preset values for any of the elements in the area. I could add an “Autoload presets” option to the “Media/Add New Enhancements” section of the Settings/Media Library Assistant General tab. Would that work for your application?

Adding a default Att. Categories term to the “Media/Add New Enhancements” section is possible but seems restrictive. Selecting any one of the available taxonomies would be a bit better. Having a separate set of Bulk Edit Area presets or perhaps mapping rules would be more powerful but perhaps too complex.

Let me know what you think of the above alternatives, and thanks for the idea.

Autoload presets would work great.

Now uploads aren’t in any att. category and basically that would work also in negative way. I think autoload presets would still improve the plugin by making possible to set multiple categories as default and other options also.

That’s a good tip – you can use the “No Att. Categories” selection in the Media/Assistant dropdown control to filter the table on that criterion. You can combine it with a date filter to get just the newest items, or simply rely on the default sort of the table to get the new items at the top.

I’m working on the presets idea and will post an update her when I have progress to report.

I have completed the work required to implement the “Autoload presets” option for the Media/Add New (Upload New Media) screen. The new feature automatically Imports your presets when the screen is loaded.

I have uploaded a new MLA Development Version dated 20231103 that includes the enhancement. You can find step-by-step instructions for using the Development Version in this earlier topic:

How to download & install the current development version of MLA

Once the Development Version is installed you can try out the ‘ “bulk edit” area auto-fill presets ‘ option:

1. Go to the Settings/Media Library Assistant General tab.
2. Scroll down to the “Media/Add New Enhancements” section.
3. Check the box for the “bulk edit area auto-fill presets” option.
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click “Save Changes” to record the new setting.

Then, go to the Upload New Media screen, open the Bulk Edit area and enter some values. Click the “Export” button to save them as presets. Leave the screen, return to it and you should see the values you entered Imported to the area.

The enhancement will be part of my next MLA version, but in the interim it would be great if you could install the Development Version and let me know how it works for you. Thanks for inspiring this MLA enhancement.

Works perfect. Thank you. Very useful for setting placeholder texts also.

I stumbled on a plugin called Media Library Folders and with it’s Block Direct Access feature, access to new uploads can be set restricted. Would be great if it worked with MLA in mla-menu. Check it out if it seems worth adding support.

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by bhasic.

Thanks for confirming the new feature. Thanks as well for the link to Media Library Folders. I downloaded a copy and tried it out. It mostly works but I have found and reported two defects in their support forum.

You wrote “Would be great if it worked with MLA in mla-menu.” I assume you mean MLA should disable the Download rollover and Bulk actions for those items. Is there anything else I must do to add support for the MLF Block Direct Access feature? Any additional details would be helpful.

Some way to see which files are blocked and Inline Quick Edit and Bulk Edit actions to Block and Unblock files would be nice.

Thanks for your patience while I worked on support for the Media Library Folders “Block Direct Access” feature. I decided to implement this as an example plugin because it will only be of interest to a subset of MLA users.

The inline Quick Edit action would be more trouble than it’s worth, but I have done the other features you proposed. The example plugin includes a Settings/MLA MLF Support screen that contains several options and some Documentation.

I have uploaded a new MLA Development Version dated 20231118 that includes the new example plugin. You can find step-by-step instructions for using the Development Version in this earlier topic:

How to download & install the current development version of MLA

Once the Development Version is installed you must install and activate the example plugin. Navigate to the Settings/Media library Assistant Documentation tab and click the “Example Plugins” button. Type “folders” in the text box and click “Search Plugins” to filter the table.

You are looking for the “MLA Media Library Folders Support” example plugin. Find that plugin and hover over the title in the left-most column. Click the “Install” rollover action, then go to the WordPress Plugins/Installed Plugins submenu and activate the example plugin as you would any other plugin. Make sure you have the latest version, 1.00, installed.

Once the Development Version and updated example plugin are installed and active you can configure the options and see the effects on the Media/Assistant admin screen.

This example plugin will be part of my next MLA version, but in the interim it would be great if you could install the Development Version and the example plugin and let me know if it works for you. Thanks for inspiring this MLA improvement.