Filtering Media Manager Toolbar Controls and Items Displayed

Hi David,

Thank you for the above. Here are the questions answered :

I do wish to remove the images from the media pop up which are within a specific term.

We have removed the term we wish to exclude from the search term dropdown.

All the terms we wish to excluded are in the pop up as the other users do not have access to the MLA area. They can only view this when adding new or modifying a post.

It would be great to extend the “mla_media_modal_initial_filters” hook to allow an exclude option or a NOT IN in the term relation.

I hope this answers all of the above, and would like to thank you for your quick response and awesome plugin!

Thank you for your response and for the kind words regarding the plugin and its support.

I understand that you have answered “yes” to my question:

Is it accurate to re-state your goal as “In the MMMW, I want to remove a term from the from the list in the dropdown control on the toolbar and I want to exclude all items assigned to that term from the set presented in the thumbnails area on the window”?

You also wrote “We have removed the term we wish to exclude from the search term dropdown“, so the remaining task is:

… I want to exclude all items assigned to that term from the set presented in the thumbnails area on the window

I will investigate adding a new hook/filter to make that possible and I will post an update here when I have progress to report. Thanks for your patience and for your interest in the plugin.

I have uploaded a new Development Version dated 20150609 that contains many new filters for the Media Manager Enhancements. I have also updated the /examples/mla-media-modal-hooks-example.php.txt example plugin to show how the new filters can be used to exclude items assigned to a particular term from the Query Attachments results.

For the example I used the attachment_category taxonomy and one of the terms on my test system, admin. You can substitute any taxonomy and term you like for your own application. Here is the example code:

/**
 * MLA Edit Media "Query Attachments" final terms Filter
 *
 * Gives you an opportunity to change the terms of the
 * Media Manager Modal Window "Query Attachments" query
 * after they are processed by the "Prepare List Table Query" handler.
 *
 * @since 1.01
 *
 * @param    array    WP_Query request prepared by "Prepare List Table Query"
 */
public static function mla_media_modal_query_final_terms( $request ) {
    //error_log( 'MLAMediaModalExample::mla_media_modal_query_final_terms $request = ' . var_export( $request, true ), 0 );

    /*
     * Comment the next line out to remove items assigned to the
     *  Att. Categories "Admin" term from the query results.
     */
    return $request;

    if ( isset( $request['tax_query'] ) ) {
        $tax_query = $request['tax_query'];
        $tax_query['relation'] = 'AND';
    } else {
        $tax_query = array();
    }

    $tax_query[] = array( 'taxonomy' => 'attachment_category', 'operator' => 'NOT IN', 'field' => 'slug', 'terms' => 'admin' );
    $request['tax_query'] = $tax_query;

    //error_log( 'MLAMediaModalExample::mla_media_modal_query_final_terms altered $request = ' . var_export( $request, true ), 0 );
    return $request;
} // mla_media_modal_query_final_terms

The complete example plugin is included with the Development Version. You can find step-by-step instructions for using the Development Version in this earlier topic:

MLA errors when using plugin

If you get a chance to try the Development Version, let me know if there are any problems or further work required. I will leave this topic unresolved until the new filters and example are released in the next MLA version. Thanks for your question that inspired the new features.

I have released MLA version 2.11. This version contains the new filters and example plugin for the taxonomy term filtering your application requires.

I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you have any problems or further questions regarding the new filters or the example plugin. Thanks for your interest in MLA.