Listing media files by category

Hai,
Thanks for using this plugin.
I’m not quite sure what you would like to achieve, but this is the set of arguments I use to filter the attachments:

// Get the posts associated with the media_taxonomy
$attachments_args = array(
	'showposts' => -1,
	'post_type' => 'attachment',
	'post_parent' => null,
	'tax_query' => array(
		    array(
			'taxonomy' => $media_taxonomy,
			'field' => 'slug',
			'terms' => $media_categories
		    )
		),
	);

You can find this in the function “mcm_get_attachment_ids()“. I use this function when processing the WP_MCM shortcode.

Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Jan

I found i also needed this to make it work
'post_status' => 'inherit',

see https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/52194/wp-query-not-working-as-expected-for-attachments-and-custom-meta-query

Hai,

And thanks for this feedback.

I checked and the reason it works for me is that I do use get_posts($attachments_args) to get the attachments.

Can we mark this as solved now?

Gr.
Jan

Yes, I am able to use WP_Query to list media, filtered by terms of the “category_media” taxononmy. Thanks!

That said, I still am unable to get the shortcode to work (which is why I tried using WP_Query instead), but i’ll post that in a separate threat.

Ok, thanks!
Looking forward to your description of the issue with the shortcode…

Hello, I’m using:

// Get the posts associated with the media_taxonomy
$attachments_args = array(
	'showposts' => -1,
	'post_type' => 'attachment',
	'post_parent' => null,
	'tax_query' => array(
		    array(
			'taxonomy' => $media_taxonomy,
			'field' => 'slug',
			'terms' => $media_categories
		    )
		),
	);

to try to get something like this:

$attachments = get_posts( $args );
     if ( $attachments ) {
        foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) {
           echo '<li>';
           echo wp_get_attachment_image( $attachment->ID, 'thumbnail' );
           echo '<p>';
           echo apply_filters( 'the_title', $attachment->post_title );

           echo '</p></li>';
          }
     }

in order to control more of the results as I need to show elements of a subcategory with a special design. I can’t make it to show any result. I used the shortcode (which works perfectly fine) but my problem is that the shortcode doesn’y give me the flexibility I need. It will be very helpful if you can show me how to achieve this.

Thanks