Help appreciated

  • Plugin Author DeBAAT

    (@debaat)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    First of all let me thank you for using this plugin.
    It started out as a plugin to do something simple like managing the categories of a series of images. Easy with the flexibility of PHP and its WP hooks.
    However, as several users already pointed out, things have changed since then.
    Gutenberg has been introduced and JavaScript has become more and more the language to use for fancy functionality.
    However, I think my knowledge of JS is not sufficient to maintain this plugin to keep its value. Especially where I cannot find any hooks into the Gutenberg code for handling media. Either it is missing or I don’t see it.
    So, that’s where you come in. Please help me to make the next step. I found out I learned the most of analysing someone else’s working code. So please point me to some examples where I can find inspiration to advance again.
    The feature lacking the most seems to be the filtering on the Gutenberg block when adding an image to a post or page. The filter already shows the option to filter by date. I would like to add my MCM category filtering to the same line. Not by replacing the complete filter code but by adding my own part to it.
    Please leave some comments below.
    Thanks!

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  • Sorry, I haven’t done any coding for over 40 years, so can’t help on the technical detail, but if someone can fix the plugin for the Classic Editor that would be a start. Specifically, the MCM Category dropdown filter is missing when Adding a media item to a Post or Page, and that’s the whole point of the plugin.

    I got here from your banner in the dashboard that says I’ve used the plugin for more than 15 seconds. LOL.

    I happily have used the plugin for quite a while, but usually use it to manage the media library directly. I have not, that I remember, used it while inserting media from the page edit interface.
    Because of your request, I tried adding an image block in a page (Gutenberg). I get the choice to add it from the media library. When in the media library, I do not have access to the MCM categories, so there is a problem. Sorry I can’t be more helpful.

    It’s a really useful plugin!

    ab000

    (@ab000)

    I have used it for several years now and have not had any issues. Works great for me.

    I love this plugin for organizing lots of images and documents in my sheet music store. I have eight categories. When I am searching for a document, a product image, or my store category images or logos, I can filter by category to more easily find what I want. Otherwise, I’d be wading through more than 400 media items.
    My site was largely set up before gutenberg came on the scene, so I’m not sure if I would find any problems if I was creating more product pages now.

    There are other plugins that manage to show a filter in the ‘Add media’ dialog of the classic editor (for example WP Media Categories). Maybe you can have a look at their code to get some ‘inspiration’ on fixing that issue.

    Plugin Author DeBAAT

    (@debaat)

    Hai All,
    Thanks for the support I received from many of you.
    I finally tackeld this issue by looking at the solution of Media Category, thanks to @vapvarun.
    Hope this helps you all.
    Best regards.
    Jan

    I used the free version of the plugin and couldn’t get it to properly filter for images, but worked great for docs. Also, the list view did no filtering; only the gallery view. Therefore, I upgraded to the premium version thinking that I would have a different experience, but I didn’t. It works the same for both free and premium.

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