UI Question

I have no idea ??

But, I’ll have a look. Probably over the weekend unless I find some time this week.

Had a quick look and it will be difficult to change the icon in the settings – besides which I can only draw squares.

One option, which probably would be for the weekend is to give an option of an icon or a text button with a label. The downside is that it would take up more space than an image icon.

For now, I’ve added a setting to select which row the icon appears on (1, 2 or 3).

Thank you for actively looking into this. Not sure if we are talking about the same thing when you mention adding text button with a label – my original suggestion was to have a button with a label next to the Add Media button (above all the buttons) as some plugins do. This way the label can be descriptive and the button more prominent (so no need to change the icon in the first place). Is this possible at all?

I know what you mean, but it looks like a different mechanism – unless I’m missing something. I’m sure it is possible, it just may take some (spare) time to figure it out.

All good. I’ll close this thread myself as it started as a question and morphed into a feature request. Perhaps in due time. Thanks again for your engagement.

Thank you. I can only build what I think of, and think will be useful. Extra pairs of eyes and ideas always help.

With a couple of days hindsight, adding to the Add Media function itself may work better in the long run – a version of the “Insert from URL” concept.

The reason for that is that one thing that I wanted to do with this was to allow the choice from all the images in a page, e.g. on a page with 5 images the first one may not be the best choice for a preview/link.

If someone has set an og:image manually, hopefully they picked the good one. But, many/most sites have not done this or their og plugin picks the first image automatically.

I can see a possible way of doing this within the add media system but not within the MCE plugin environment. I’m 80% sure this is possible but 10% sure how long it will take to find the time.

The idea is to “insert from URL”, grab the page, then on the pre-insert page: list the images available so one can be selected and also list the title, description, link, etc. so that they can be edited before being inserted into the post.

Sorry, I’m rambling and probably not making a lot of sense.

Great idea which has been thought through with a working model already available to adopt but requires integration and thus beyond average user’s reach. If you are curious and don’t mind AngularJS & Bootstrap just check out pastebin.com/6xZ9gnEy I’ve known about this for a while but don’t know how to put it to practice. Perhaps this sparks new ideas!

FYI v1.5.2 has a new “Media Bar” option for button placement. This places it above TinyMCE. The function is the same, just a different button placement.

The media bar addition is a great enhancement – works very well. But I have a few questions. Would appreciate directing me in the right direction:

1) Once enabled, the button in the media row appears on all editor instances, i.e. all editors created by other plugins. Obviously this is disruptive where a link preview is not needed or simply messes up a custom CPT integrity) How can this be limited only to post editor in the admin area knowing that once needed on a particular instance the button could then be pragmatically added (this part is beyond the scope of this question).

2) In case this is not achievable (or not readily available), can the button in the media row be hidden by css and how?

Thanks -n

Do your other instances have a different post type?

If so, it can probably be limited to post type == post – or – post type == post or page

Would that work for you?

In terms of CSS, the button has an id of “insert-zurlpreview-media” so you may be able to display:none that until the post type limit is in place.

v1.5.3 has the filter in it.

The code is a bit cludgy as typenow isn’t set where I thought it would be, but it works here.

Yes, this does the trick. It removes the button on FE forms where not needed. Initially I though CPT had something to do with it but you are right, prior to V1.3 the button was globally applied to any form that uses wp-editor with media row enabled. The specifity you applied restricts it to Post or Page (on the backend only I believe) as it should. Thank you again for all the great work and being responsive to user feedback.

No idea what FE or CPT are, just glad it works for you ??

Sorry just jargon! I meant frontend forms such as those from BuddyDev and BuddyForms and the various Custom Post Types I got dealing with book reviews etc.

Ah, makes sense ??