Plugin should come with a warning

  • When I installed this plugin I had no idea it would be affecting my blog posts. After a while of using this plugin I noticed my Categories widget for my blog posts had an inaccurate number like 65, even though I only had about 20 posts in there. Clicking on the post category would of course only show 20 posts. So where was the extra 45 coming from? The media library! Why does this plugin connect the blog posts to the media library? They should be separate. I removed the plugin but somehow my blog was still showing that I have 65 posts. I had to reinstall the plugin, go through each image and change the category one by one, remove the plugin, then delete the category. A painful process! Use Enhanced Media Library instead!

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  • Plugin Author jeffrey-wp

    (@jeffrey-wp)

    Hi, as you can read in the faq there was a simple resolution for your “problem”.

    By default the WordPress Media Library uses the same categories as WordPress does (such as in posts & pages). If you want to use separate categories for the WordPress Media Library add this code to the file functions.php located in your theme or child-theme:

    /**
* separate media categories from post categories
* use a custom category called 'category_media' for the categories in the media library
*/
add_filter( 'wpmediacategory_taxonomy', function(){ return 'category_media'; } ); //requires PHP 5.3 or newer

    Hopefully next time you read the faq first or ask a question in the support forum before giving a 1 star rating ??

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