Media library seems empty although showing image count

Have you tried:

– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

– switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?

– checking the uploads path in Settings/Media?

Shame on me, it is my functions.php that is filtering something badly!

What did you have wrong? Mine seems to be doing the same, when I change the theme it works. I can’t see whats wrong in my functions file!

Ah I got it. I had add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' ); inside a function that was a callback for add_action('init', ...). Moved to the top of the functions file (i.e. outside that function) and all is well.

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Thank you koorb! I had the same problem. At first I thought it was a problem with a plugin. But when I knew what to search for I found the add_action('init', ...) was the problem. I use it to call a function to register a custom taxonomy. If I remove the function and the action I can use the library again.