unable to work with it if i have to insert a gallery in a post

Hi Ankur, could you let me know what version of WordPress you’re running as well as any plugins you have that might be conflicting? I use the plugin regularly and haven’t experienced this problem on my own sites.

Thanks, Chris!

Hi Chris!
I am using the latest version of wordpress (3.5.1).

I was able to add the custom fields to the image and was also able to fetch the data but only if I set the image as a featured image.

My question is how can I fetch the custom field of the image which I insert into the post(not setting it as the featured image). Similarly what if i insert a few images as a gallery. How can I fetch their custom field data.

Thanks!
Ankur

Hi Ankur, there isn’t a method (at the moment anyways) to associate the custom data with gallery images but there are two functions for displaying the information on your page:

thisismyurl_get_custom_media_field( $attachment_id, $unique_field_id ) will fetch the data while thisismyurl_custom_media_field( $attachment_id, $unique_field_id ) will display it.

Hi Chris,

Your functions worked perfectly but we can’t get $attachment_id of the images if they are inserted into the post.
I found a way through which I integrated your plugin to the gallery feature. Maybe you could add this functionality to your plugin.

What I did was-
I observed that by using the gallery shortcode, I could get the attatchment_id of all the images. eg : [gallery ids="6500,6501"]
where 6500 and 6501 are the attachment ids of the images whose custom fields(that I created which your plugin) I wanted.

So I decided to modify the gallery shortcode itself.

This is what i wrote in my function.php file

/* Editing  shortcode for Gallery */
remove_shortcode('gallery', 'gallery_shortcode');
add_shortcode('gallery', 'gallery_shortcode_fancybox');

function gallery_shortcode_fancybox($attr) {
.....
copy all the code from wp-includes/media.php which is inside the function gallery_shortcode()
.....

}

After adding this to my functions.php, I was able to create my custom gallery shortcode without modifying the core files.

In between the function, where I needed to fetch the custom fields, I added this.

/* MY CUSTOM EDITS */
		$work_status = strtolower(thisismyurl_get_custom_media_field( $id, 'my_unique_id' ));

		$output .= "<{$itemtag} class='gallery-item ".$work_status."'>";
		$output .= "<{$icontag} class='gallery-icon'>".$link."</{$icontag}>";

/* MY CUSTOM EDITS Ends here*/

I was able to attach a class which I required.

Hope this helps you integrate your plugin with the gallery feature of the wordpress.

Thanks,
Ankur

Hi Chris,

So I just cut and paste

thisismyurl_get_custom_media_field( $attachment_id, $unique_field_id )

thisismyurl_custom_media_field( $attachment_id, $unique_field_id )

into my theme? I don’t need <?php at the start and ?> at the end, or anthing?

Changing unique_field_id to what I called it?

What’s the $attachment_id part – do I leave that as is?

It’s all such a mystery!