Using Media Categories 2 with other taxonomies

This is an interesting point. I’ve considered how I might extend this plugin to allow for other taxonomies – although I am not sure how IF i should do that with this plugin or create a separate more generically named plugin (something without the name ‘categories’ in it.

I’ve been working on the next version of this plugin which will add a ‘category’ parameter to gallery shortcodes – mostly because another commenter specifically asked for it.

After reading your post, I’ve decided that before I make my next release, I will try to add a filter that will allow developers to change the taxonomy being used without needing to modify the plugin.

Thought you’d like to know, Media Categories 1.3 now includes a filter allowing you do easily change the taxonomy.

Good stuff – I’ll give it a go.

And thanks for helping on this one.

Gary

Let me know if you have any trouble, I tested this with post_tags and two custom taxonomies. But its possible some configurations of custom taxonomies might be buggy, but I think most cases shouldn’t have any trouble.

I am using this plugin. Seems to work well. I created numerous categories to tag PDF’s with. However, I cannot find or see anywhere where it tells me how many media items are associated with a particular category.

Is there an additional plugin that I should install that will show me how may items are tagged with a particular category. Either in the media library or the categories list form the admin dashboard?

thank you in advance

This plugin sounds like what I have been looking for.
Would assigned image(s) to category replace imported attached images on a post? images/post are RSS Feeds from other site.

I dont think I follow what your asking.

This plugin allows you to add categories to media. Out of the box it doesnt do anything at all to media that is attached to a post, and it doesn’t have much to do with RSS feeds. Although, I suspect it wouldn’t be too difficult to syndicate media by taxonomy. However, I don’t think importing those (through FeedWordPress, or something like that) would cause any exisiting images to be replaced.

You can use the gallery shortcode though. Using this plugin you can show a gallery of images within a category – without actually attaching them. So, say you setup gallery with a limit to show 20 images, and then import 20 more image to the same category – then yes – it would ‘replace’ the images being displayed on that post.

Does any of that make sense? I hope im not misunderstanding your question.

Sorry if I’m rambling a bit, what you were asking sort of threw me for a second.

Thank you so very much for responding to me. You were not rambling at all, I was the rambler.
This is what i want to do, so please let me know if this can be done with the plugin.
I want to add one image to category X – and would like that image to be added or replace any/all post on Category X.

Thanks again.

If I understand you correctly, you have a bunch of posts with images in them that are categorized. You want to assign an image to a particular category, and if it replace all the images attached to posts in that category.

If I understand you correctly, then this can not be done out of the box using this plugin. However it might help you along.

Assuming your a developer, you should be able to categorize the image, and then just query a category of posts – loop through them, get their attached images and replace them with the image being used for the posts category.

Unfortunately i thats still quite a bit to do – this plugin can only help you with regard to the categorizing of the media, it does not do any of the replacing of attached media.

@panafricantimes – Would you mind opening a different thread for your question – what you are asking is completely different from the original post here.

Thanks.

Thnx