Eddie Moya

Could you please post a snippet of the code your using where is_category() is failing?

Also, are you using a custom taxonomy or just standard categories?

Am I to understand that your saying, when modifying the original Media Categories object so that it uses a custom taxonomy instead of ‘category’, everything is working but you don’t see your taxonomy as a column in the Media Library?

I think your args are missing ‘post_status’, which is different for attachments.

'post_status' => 'inherit'

Vivek, ads are not a normal part of wordpress core. So, I dont know what ads are in your context.

Again, I take it that the key to your report is that is_category() doesnt work as it. Is that correct?

I’m not clear what your talking about with regard to Ads, but I take it your actual bug report is that the is_category() conditional tag is not working for media. I’ll look into fixing this for 1.6.

This was fixed in https://github.com/eddiemoya/Media-Categories/commit/a4d84c5aa92df70c03b449d7d614f0dd9a77043b

Will be part of Media Categories 1.6 which is now under development.

I have not completely abandoned it. I simply have not had the time to work on it. It was originally developer as part of a project for work, but I no longer work on that project and so the time I can devote to this plugin is very limited.

Thank you for the feedback though. The fact that some people really like it, and it seems to be the most popular plugin of its kind – at the very least lets me know that its worth investing time into. I also believe it may have driven a small amount of inspiration for core, when they paid attention to the media library in 3.6.

I fully intend on giving this plugin some attention, but at this point I simply can not guarantee any sort of time frames. Thanks again.

Thank you very much, I’ll fix that in the next update.

This is now an issue in GitHub Issues. Marking this as resolved just to close this discussion in the forum – any updates for this issue will take place here.

Would you mind opening this up in the GitHub Issues tracker for this plugin along with a step by step set of instruction on how to reproduce it?

If you could do that it would be greatly appreciated.

I dont think so, i believe the queries simply order by the default date ordering.

This sounds like it would be an interesting feature to add. If you can and dont mind, it would be great if you could add this to the GitHub Issues tracker for this plugin

Thanks.

Hmm, sounds like a bug in WordPress core. My plugin doesn’t actually create that page it only enables it.

I believe that to be a problem with some of the taxonomy info being caching in the wp_options table.

If you are a developer, I would open a trac ticket. If you are not a developer, i would be happy to open one for you and see this issue through. Please let me know.

This sounds like a general PHP question about foreach loops. Could you please be more specific about the question you have.

In case you are asking how to get images in a given category – which is a common question, you do this the same way as you do for posts, the query simply needs to specify the ‘attachment’ post type.

The plugin was never originally meant as something to be used by end-users. It was originally intended to simply be a tool for theme/plugin developers to allow them to easily setup taxonomy systems and interfaces for media.

This has slowly shifted away from developer-centric to user-centric, as more and more non-developers have asked for more and more features to be built in.

@dnavarrojr – You are able to specify custom a custom taxonomy, but you have to do that through code. Place this in your functions.php file:

$my_custom_media_metabox = new Media_Categories('my_custom_taxonomy');

Keep in mind that this does not create the custom taxonomy for you, it simply allows you to enable an existing taxonomy for media

In the version after next, I am thinking about adding a user interface for handling which taxonomies get used.