Media clone

Thank you for an interesting question; I hope I understand what you mean.

MLA provides many tools to work with existing items in the Media library and information about those items. If you are using WPML or Polylang to manage a multi-language site, MLA provides some support for creating “translations” of an item in two or more languages. The translations shale a common attached file but have separate database entries with the item’s Title, Caption, Description and so forth.

The current MLA version does not contain any other functions for creating two or more Media Library items that share one attached file. to “clone a media” item you would have to download the file and then upload it again as a new Media Library item. In that case, each item would have a separate copy of the attached file.

I hope that answers your question, but if I have not understood you any additional details you can provide would be very helpful. I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you have any other questions or additional details about your application. Thank you for your interest in the plugin.

Hi,
Thanks for the detailed answer. Yes, sometime I would like to duplicate a media as new.
I might want to have two difference set of caption. But I will look into the translation function and see if it fit.
Thanks.

Adding a multi-language plugin like WPML or Polylang just to get some caption flexibility is a very complex solution to a simple application function. You might consider adding one or more custom fields when you need a different “caption” and then using the custom field in place of the default caption in, for example, an [mla_gallery] display. You could try something like:

[mla_gallery mla_caption="{+custom:alternate caption+}"]

If you need more guidance, feel free to update this topic with more details on your application.

Great! Thanks…Amazing support.
I will try what you suggested. Thanks.