You don't have access… even being admin in all sites

I found my issue. As my network is a private intranet, I had to disable
Discourage search engines from indexing this site in the Reading Settings. If this option is selected, you get the message “You don’t have access to any other sites media…”. I am trying to work that around.

@maria you are great! I had this same issue on my local dev server. I would never have thought that this setting of search engines is related somehow to this bug. Thanks!

@maorb unfortunately if this setting is on, you get lots of errors! I’ve also have Buddypress on now and I was having a lot of bugs, going crazy and the moment I changed the reading settings, everything worked fine again!!!! good luck!

I’ve never noticed any issues nor bugs on dev servers that this setting caused.
But if this particular setting is causing many bugs that are not suppossed to be relted to its functionallity, maybe a trac ticket should be submitted to the core WP team to check out.
Anyway 10x again!

Hi Maria, Maorb,

The plugin currently requires a site to be “public” as I thought it weird to have content of an non-public site to be used on a, perhaps, public blog. I took the required attributes (see faq) from the site-settings in the Network Admin.

I did not realize the same setting (inverted) is the “Discourage search engines from indexing” setting… This is confusing…

@maria: I can’t imagine the “public” setting causes errors in my plugin. Could this be a BuddyPress issue?

@joost, Thank you very much for your comments and work on the plugin.
I wonder if you have already managed to find a way solving the issue for choosing also the featured image from the network.

@joostdekeijzer it’s not Buddypress – I do not use Buddypress in my intranet. I almost don’t use plugins. The issue is with WordPress itself and the site indexing/visibility option. One test I did was to turn the visibility on in one of the sites and leaving it restrict in the other. The one with the restriction could access the library of the public one but not the other way.
I also found another person around WP community (unfortunately I didn’t save the links!) that had the same issued and found the same solution.
Your plugin won’t work if the “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” is checked in a multi-site network.

We have an inhouse installation of WordPress hosting multiple blogs by multiple authors. I have two authors who get the “You don’t have access to other sites media” when they try to select Network Shared Media. I selected the “Discourage search engines from indexing” setting after the first author reported the problem and now I have a second author with the problem. Any suggestions? Help!