Feature Request: Count includes sub-folders / child-categories

  • I’m not sure how feasible this is, but just wanted to raise it in case it’s easier than I thought or perhaps just not something you thought about.

    Assume I have:

    Animals (0 actual items)
    with child folders of “Sea Creatures (2 items)” and “Mammals (2 items)”

    If I click to browse “Animals”, I see all the sea creatures and mammals (4 items), however the count displayed alongside “Animals” is 0. I think it would be ideal if the count shown besides Animals displayed how many items would be displayed if you were to click on it.

    Thanks for reading!

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  • Plugin Contributor wpmedialibrary

    (@wpmedialibrary)

    Feature request noted.

    (Updated): I’m not seeing a use case for needing this behaviour, noting that WordPress’ Taxonomies (e.g. Categories for Posts), as well as numerous other Media Library categorization Plugins, do not perform in the way you’re requesting. Any item that is categorized to a child category is not counted as categorized in the parent category, so to introduce such will result in more confusion than help.

    If there is a strong usability use case for this, please feel free to illustrate it. However, feature requests are at our discretion, noting that this is a free product that isn’t designed to meet the needs of every single prospective user.

    Thanks.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by wpmedialibrary. Reason: Explanation that this feature request probably won't move forward at this time
    Thread Starter Jason LeMahieu (MadtownLems)

    (@madtownlems)

    >> If there is a strong usability use case for this, please feel free to illustrate it. However, feature requests are at our discretion, noting that this is a free product that isn’t designed to meet the needs of every single prospective user.

    Oh, of course. As a fellow plugin maintainer, I completely understand, and I really appreciate your responsiveness thus far.

    My use case is largely just from the user experience point of view. To me, if a folder says “Animals (7)”, and I click on it. I expect to see 7 Animals. Not the 7 Animals that are technically assigned to THAT folder as well as the dozens of animals that are in subfolders.

    Cheers

    Plugin Contributor wpmedialibrary

    (@wpmedialibrary)

    Quoting, edited to achieve clarity and understanding:

    …if a folder says “Animals (7)”, and I click on it. I expect to see 7 Animals. Not <snip> the dozens of animals that are in subfolders.

    If this is what you meant, then surely this is the feature request?

    Thread Starter Jason LeMahieu (MadtownLems)

    (@madtownlems)

    > If this is what you meant, then surely this is the feature request?

    Great question. One thing I actually really like about your plugin is that viewing Animals DOES automatically show items from sub-folders. Many of the other similar plugins don’t actually do that. Your plugin has is more of a “filter down” / “drill down” approach, where as the others tend to work more like Microsoft Windows folders, only showing you what’s explicitly in that folder.

    So, for me personally, I’d love to see consistency between the number next to the folder and the number of media items I’ll see if I click on that folder, but I’d hate to lose the functionality of having subfolders included automatically. So for me, that solution was displaying a different number next to the folder.

    Of course, it’s your plugin and you can choose to handle this how you see fit.
    Thanks again for the prompt reply.

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