Inserted in popup modal window no longer appearing

Thanks for your report and the details you have provided. I regret the trouble you’re having with the Media Manager Modal (popup) Window.

I just ran some test on my own system and (of course) the combination of WP 4.7.1 and MLA 2.41 is working there. I did see one minor problem with the Featured Image popup; if there is an existing Featured Image its details appear in the ATTACHMENT DETAILS pane without the MLA enhancements. If you click on it in the grid the enhancements appear as normal. I will investigate that, but it’s not what you are reporting.

You wrote “Nothing along the right side like usual appears” You are seeing the normal WP ATTACHMENT DETAILS without the MLA enhancements; is that right? If you click on one of the thumbnails in the grid, do the enhancements appear?

You wrote “The “filter by media category” shows nothing but “all media categories” or “not in a media category.”” That does not sound like an MLA feature. Have you installed some other plugin that adds taxonomy support to Media Library items?

Do you see the “Terms Search” button and/or the added controls below the Search Media box?

My first guess is that some other plugin is interfering with MLA’s scripts for adding featured to the MMMW popup window. Any additional information you can provide would be very helpful. If the above suggestions do not help isolate the problem, you could give me a temporary account on your server and I could investigate further. I understand that may not be possible. You could also share your screen with me over Skype and we could explore together. Let me know how you would like to proceed.

Thanks for the super fast reply!

You wrote “Nothing along the right side like usual appears” You are seeing the normal WP ATTACHMENT DETAILS without the MLA enhancements; is that right? If you click on one of the thumbnails in the grid, do the enhancements appear?

D’oh! My mistake. Sorry for the confusion. At least the right bar appears to be working.

Have you installed some other plugin that adds taxonomy support to Media Library items?

No, nothing I can think of. I’ll double check and see if there’s a plugin causing the problem.

Do you see the “Terms Search” button and/or the added controls below the Search Media box?

Here’s a screen shot of what I see when I click “set featured image” within the post editor.

Here’s what I see when I’m in the editor and a click to insert an image.

Here’s what I see when I click on an existing image to edit.

I use a staging site, and I’d be thrilled to have you look at the problem. Let me first see if I can narrow this down further.

Thanks for the additional information and especially for all the screen shots; very helpful.

It looks like you are using something other than the WordPress Media Manager Modal Window. I don’t see any evidence that the MLA enhancements are present. Perhaps a page builder plugin or a premium theme?

If you want to give me access to the staging site, you can send me your contact information from the Contact Us page at our web site:

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Let me know what you find out. Thanks for your interest in the plugin.

This is so embarrassing. I’ve used MLA for so many years I take it for granted. I just posted a long over due review.

When ever I consider a plugin I do a great deal of testing. MLA has been one of my standards for so long I think of it as a standard part of WordPress. When it stopped working, it was confused. I couldn’t even remember how WordPress works without it LOL.

Somewhere along the line I had added Enhanced Media Library. I delete all the not needed plugins after my review, but for some reason left this one in my inactive set.

I can remember having to debug a problem on the site, and deactivated all plugins. I inadvertently activated Enhanced Media Library, and went along my merry way until earlier this week when I needed to work with some media. That was the first time I noticed the problem (several weeks after mistakenly activating Enhanced Media Library).

Sorry for the confusion!

BTW – I wish WordPress would save plugin “sets” so I could deactivate things and then restore the ones I was using. Every time I get into a debugging session I have to make a list of all the active plugsin, and then manually reactivate them. I have several that I use for utilities, and keep inactive. I also have others I keep because they may be useful sometime, but also keep those inactive.

I sure would be nice to have the ability to define a set of plugins so I could quickly activate/inactivate them without having to manually make a list and then individually selecting them.

If you or someone has, or knows of such a tool, I think it would be popular.

Thanks for listening and bearing with me!

I forgot to add, I did find a way to make the two plugins work together. In the settings of Enhanced Media Library it allows you to include the taxonomy in the filter, which was not set in my case. Changing those settings got the two plugins working, so it wasn’t really an incompatibility in the first place.

I don’t know why I would use both at the same time, but just wanted to let you know there isn’t really a problem. It was all entirely my on me.

Thanks for your updates with the good news about the solution you found. Thanks especially for the positive review you posted!

The MLA/Enhanced Media Library combination has come up before, e.g.:

MLA active with other media plugin filtering not working

Getting plugins to cooperate in the Media Manager Modal (popup) Window has been a continuing source of frustration for me and many others. I am happy to hear you found a combination that works for you.

I like your idea about “sets” of plugins. If I had any spare time it would be a useful plugin to develop.

I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you have any other problems or further questions.