[Plugin: Media Library Assistant] no search function ?

I’m going back over the support topics and planning future development. I now realize that I’m not quite sure what you mean when you say “attachment size”. Can you be more specific, e.g., file size, image size (height x width) or something else? Thanks for any help you can give me.

Well, I thought about the file size, to sort out too big media files when tyding things in my library. Moreover, file size applies to different kind of items (images, sound, zip file, anything), whereas the number of pixels is attched only to the notion of image.

I have just released version 1.10, which allows you to map attachment metadata such as file size, width, height and pixel count, to custom fields.

You can make the resulting custom field a sortable column in the Media/Assistant submenu table. That should help you do the analysis and cleanup you desire. Let me know if you have any issues with this new feature.

Thanks again for the suggestion and for your patience.

well, thank YOU daniel. this plugin just gets cooler and cooler ! ??

So I am looking for documentation about a Search function for the public side of using it. https://www.uwrwa.org/explore/maps.asp So this is a client that will be moving over into WordPress and I want them to use this plugin to load and organize their files. Notice how they can sort those maps on the page. I know how to write shortcode in the function.php page and make it do stuff on the load of a page but how could I rewrite your shortcode each time in the page when someone does some action? I would like to just grab the result of the action and sort the media again based on new parameters. So if they check the box “jpg” it would sort only by extension type jpg? Thanks!

Thanks for this question. I don’t really see how it relates to the earlier posts in this topic, but I think I understand what you’re asking. Here’s a link to a recent topic that may give you a start:

template query for att. tags

The examples in that topic are for a taxonomy query, but the same approach would work for any of the [mla_gallery] parameters, including orderby and order. If you’re comfortable with writing PHP code, writing a template to process the values from the form and pass them to the [mla_gallery] shortcode should be straightforward.

I hope that gets you started. If you have any problems or further questions, please open up a new topic in this support forum so we can focus on your specific situation. Thanks for using the plugin.

Am I reading correctly that a search tag feature will be added at some point?

jjohns,

I am not sure what you mean by a “search tag” feature, but I can give you some ideas for finding Media Library items by taxonomy terms, e.g., tag values.

The available taxonomies are listed in the screen/subscreen list, between Media/Library and Media/Assistant. If you select one of these subscreens you will see a list of the terms in the taxonomy. There is a “Search” box in the upper right of these screens you can use to filter the list of terms. In the “Attachments” column, there is a count of the items that are associated with each term. If you click on the number in that column you will get a Media/Assistant screen showing all the items having that term.

On the Media/Assistant screen you can display a column for any of the available taxonomies. If you don’t see the taxonomy you want, pull down the Screen Options (upper-right corner) and check the box next to the one you want. Each of the terms in the taxonomy column is a link; click on a tern to get a list filtered by that term.

I hope that gets you started. If you have any problems with these procedures or further questions, let me know. Thanks for your interest.