Custom Post Type Media

not that I’m aware. While media is a post type in its own, with the “attachment” slug, majority of all that with the media library is heavily customized and custom implemented by WordPress core.

Probably my only question would be more about what you were thinking about for this request and ideas.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Michael Beckwith.

Hi Michael,

Thank you very much for your answer.

Well in the past I had an project with a lot of images and there I had some problems with different use cases of the files in the mediathek.

Now I have again a project with a lot of images and I facing difference problems with a search and filter plugin. I worked a lot with taxonomies to filter and display the images. The developer of the plugin told me I should use a Custom Post Type and should cross link the images, but this is very uncomfortable work flow for our customer in the end. I think I found now a way which works for us, but if there would be a Custom Post Type with the functionalities of the Mediathek it would more easier and more comfortable.

Greetings ??

Gotcha.

Sounds like something that would need to be handled more by WP core rather than us at this point, but I will admit I haven’t mulled on this topic long.

I do wonder what could be achieved with the post types and just having the media items attached to the posts themselves. You would be able to fetch just the items attached and do things with them. Or you could save attachment IDs/urls/image data and whatnot as post meta and maybe achieve a lot that way too.