[Feature Request] – Add replacement link to Photo's Edit page

Thank you. I’m not sure what you are asking for, since the link is already in the edit page: Screenshot.

This flow works:

Media > Library > Edit
https://wordpress/wp-admin/post.php?post=2088&action=edit

This flow doesn’t Work:

Post > Add New > Set Featured Image > Edit Image
https://www.example.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2088&action=edit&image-editor

All Posts > Edit > ACF Image (Edit Link) > Edit Image
https://www.example.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=959&action=edit#, https://www.example.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2088&action=edit&image-editor

I use Advanced Custom Fields (https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/pro) and occasionally the Post Thumbnail which is set via ‘Set Featured Image’. The problem is they only show controls to rotate, scale, crop and thumbnail settings. It’s all the information you will see when you click that ‘Edit Image’ button in your screenshot. But because it’s only THAT information, your link is not getting rendered inside that area. So the only way to access it is to go through the library – not directly from a Featured Image or ACF Image field.

So I need your Replace Image to render UI inside the ‘Edit Image’ section, not just the images’s edit page accessed from the Library tab.

Does that make more sense?

This is where I was referring to:

https://wpseek.com/function/wp_image_editor/
function wp_image_editor($post_id, $msg = false)

If you added this code to line 148 of that file you can see that anywhere you try to edit a photo, you can always access the replace button.

<div class="imgedit-group">
	<div class="imgedit-group">
		<div class="imgedit-submit">
			<input type="button" onclick="imageEdit.action(<?php echo "$post_id, '$nonce'"; ?>, 'your-replace-function')" class="button button-primary" value="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Replace Image' ); ?>" />
		</div>
	</div>
</div>

I realized I don’t see any hooks other than the javascript imageEdit.init, and I don’t really know if that is a hook.

<script type="text/javascript">jQuery( function() { imageEdit.init(<?php echo $post_id; ?>); });</script>

Feel free to submit a pull request, the repo is at https://github.com/mansj/enable-media-replace

?? Thanks. I’ll have to do a little more research. Let me know if you beat me to it.

Turns out your plugin is doing what it needs to, it just won’t add the link if it thinks it’s on the wrong page.

In your plugins/enable-media-replace/enable-media-replace.php just change line 69 from

if ($on_media_edit_screen == true) {

to

if ($on_media_edit_screen == true || substr($post->post_mime_type, 0, 5) == 'image') {

BOOM!

Now hard would it be to add a ‘SWAP’ button in addition to the ‘REPLACE’?