Topics

  • Media → Library
    • Media library
  • Media library grid view
    • Filtering options
    • Delete media
    • Attachment details
  • Media library list view
    • Table of media
      • Sortable columns
      • Page navigation
      • Screen options
      • Search
    • Filtering options
    • Using selection, actions, and apply
      • Selection
      • Deportment
      • Find posts or pages
      • Apply

Media consists of the images, video, recordings, and files that y'all upload and use in your blog. Media is typically uploaded and inserted into the content when writing a Post or writing a Folio. Annotation that the Uploading Setting in the Settings Media Screen describes the location and structure of the upload directory (where your media files are stored). If you do demand to upload Media, even if that Media is not related to a Post or Folio, then yous need to use the Media Add New Screen.

Visit the Media add new screen to install new media by clicking the Add New link at the peak of this screen or Select Media > Add together New from the left side menu.

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Media library

The Media Library Screen allows y'all to edit, view, and delete Media previously uploaded to your blog. Multiple Media objects can be selected for deletion. Search and filtering power is also provided to let you to discover the desired Media.

Media Library provides two type of views. One is simple visual Grid View and another is conventional List View. Switch between these views using the icons to the left above the screen.

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In Media Library Grid View, thumbnails of image, Sound icons and Movie icons are bundled in the filigree.

Manage Files - Media Library

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Filtering options

At the top of Grid View, y'all can filter the media by media type and date:

All media items

This dropdown allows you to select, past media types such as Images, Audio and Video or Unattached to any Posts nor Pages, which Media are displayed in the Table of Media. By default, "All media items" are selected and all of your Media are displayed.

All dates

This dropdown allows yous to select, past engagement, which Media are displayed in the Grid View. By default, "Show all dates" is selected and all of your Media are displayed.

To the right, is a Search box where you tin enter a word, or series of words to search and brandish all the Media meeting your search words. The search results volition be updated as you blazon.

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Delete media

To delete media items, click the Majority Select button at the summit of the screen. Select any items you lot wish to delete, and so click the Delete Selected push. Clicking the Cancel Pick button takes you back to viewing your media.

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Attachment details

In Media Library Grid View, clicking an Image thumbnail, Sound icon or Video icon will display an Attachment Details dialog, which allows you to preview media and brand quick edits. Any changes you lot brand to the attachment details will be automatically saved. You lot can as well delete private items and access the extended edit screen from the details dialog.
Utilize the arrow buttons at the pinnacle of the dialog, or the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard, to navigate between media items quickly.

Attachment Details Screen
Attachment Details

Attachment Details changes its appearance and information by media blazon. The left side of this dialog shows the Image, Audio player or Video player. The right side lists the following media file attributes and optional data. Some of them are editable from this dialog.

  • Uploaded on – The engagement when the media file was uploaded
  • Uploaded by – author who uploaded the Media.
  • Uploaded to – Championship of the Mail or Page that contains this Media. Click on the championship to view that Post or Folio in an edit Screen. If the Media was unattached to whatsoever Post or Page, this line does not appear.
  • File proper name – The proper noun of the media file
  • File blazon – The MIME Blazon of media file
  • File size – The file size of the media file
  • Dimensions – (Image files only) The dimensions of image media
  • Alt Text – (Paradigm files only) The alt text for the paradigm, due east.g. "The Mona Lisa" to describe the media. Used for accessibility.
  • Title – The name of the media. A championship is often shown on attachment pages and galleries if themes or plugins are designed to display it.
  • Explanation – A brief explanation of the media.
  • Description – An explanation of this particular media.
  • File URL – Read-only brandish of a directly link to the media file.
  • Copy URL to clipboard – Click to copy the URL of the file into the clipboard.
  • Artist – (Voice files only) Vocalizer, composer or producer of this media.
  • Album – (Voice files merely) Album title that includes this media.

At the bottom there are three link menus:

View attachment page

Shows the media in a imitation view of how the image would wait when displayed in your Theme.

Edit more than details

Displays the Edit Media Screen. See the Edit Media for details on editing Media information.

Delete permanently

Deletes the media.

Edit prototype

(Image files merely) Allows you to make edits such as rotate, scale, and ingather. Run into the Edit Image Screen.

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In Media Library List View, a tabular array lists all of your Media, by row. The Media are listed with the newest uploaded Media offset.

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Table of media

The table of Media contains the following columns:

  • [ ] – This checkbox, when clicked (checked), 'selects' that particular Media to exist processed past a Majority Action.
  • "thumbnail" – At that place is no column heading for "thumbnail", but a small image of the actual media is displayed in this column
  • File – Displayed in the form of a link, this is Title, the proper name of the media. Clicking the title link opens Edit Media Screen. Run across the Edit Media for details on editing Media information. Below the Title, the actual name of the file that holds this detail Media is displayed.
  • Author – Displayed in the grade of a link, this is the author who uploaded the Media. Clicking the writer link causes all the Media authored past that user to exist displayed in the Table of Media (thus assuasive a Bulk Activity to be applied to all Media for a given writer).
  • Uploaded to – Uploaded to describes the title of the Mail or Folio that contains this Media and the appointment of that Mail service or Page. Click on the championship to view that Post or Folio in an edit Screen. If the Media was unattached to any Mail or Folio, an "Attach" link volition appear and when clicked this Media can be attached to selected Posts or Pages. For more detail about selecting, see Discover Posts or Pages. If the Media has been attached to more 1 Postal service or Page, only the details of the first Post or Page will be displayed.
  • Comment chimera – Each Media row has a comment bubble with the number of comments for that Media. If a Media has any comments, then the number of comments is displayed in a bubble. Clicking on a blue comment bubble causes the Comments Screen to be displayed to allow moderation of those comments.
  • Date – The date the Media was uploaded.

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Sortable columns

Some column headings, such as the File, Author, Uploaded to, and Date headings, can be clicked to sort the Table of Media in ascending or descending order. Hover over the cavalcade title, e.g. File, to see the upwards arrow or down arrow. Click the heading to change the sort order.

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Page navigation

Under the Screen Options, the number of Media displayed per page is determined. If more than one folio of Media is available, two double-pointer boxes to move to the first and last folio are provided. Also ii single-arrow boxes are displayed to move one page backward or forrard. Finally, a box showing the current folio number tin can be used to enter a page to directly brandish.

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Screen options

The Screen Options allow you to choose which columns are displayed, or non displayed, in the underlying Table. Clicking on the Screen Options tab shows a list of the columns with a check-box next to each cavalcade. Check the box for each column you want displayed in the Table, or uncheck the box to not display that cavalcade. In addition, the number of Media items to brandish in the Table of Media can be set. Click the Screen Options tab once again to close the Screen Options.

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Above the Tabular array, to the right, is a Search box where y'all can enter a word, or series of words, and hit the Enter fundamental to search and display all the Media meeting your search words.

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Filtering options

At the summit of Listing view, you tin filter the media by media blazon and date:

All

This dropdown allows y'all to select, by media blazon such as Images, Audio and Video or Unattached to any Posts nor Pages, which Media are displayed in the Table of Media. By default, "All" is selected and all of your Media are displayed.

All dates

This dropdown allows you to select, by engagement, which Media are displayed in the Table of Media. Past default, "All dates" is selected and all of your Media are displayed.

Filter

Clicking this button applies the settings you select in the dropdown.

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Using pick, actions, and use

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Pick

This Screen allows Bulk Actions to be performed on one or more Media selected in the Table. For Majority Actions to be performed on multiple Media at in one case, those Media must be first selected via one of these methods:

  • Select one Media at a fourth dimension – To select a Media, the checkbox to the left of the Media entry must exist checked (clicked). It is possible to keep selecting more Media by checking their respective checkbox.
  • Select all Media in given Table – All Media in a given table can be selected by checking the checkbox in the Table'due south title, or footer bar. Of course, unchecking the header or footer title bar checkbox will cause all entries in that Tabular array to be unchecked (NOT selected).
  • Reverse Selection – A Reverse Option means checked items become unchecked, and unchecked items go checked. A Opposite Selection is accomplished by belongings the Shift key on the keyboard and clicking the header or footer championship bar checkbox.

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Actions

Actions depict the process to be performed on particular Media. At that place are two styles of Actions that will be referred to as Bulk Deportment and Immediate Actions. The follow describes these Actions:

  • Bulk actions – These Actions can exist performed on one, or more Media, at one time, if those Media have been previously selected. Bulk Actions are bachelor, when appropriate, as choices in the Bulk Deportment pulldown box, above the Table. The only Bulk Action allowed is Delete Permanently.
  • Immediate actions – Firsthand Actions are performed immediately, on an individual Media. Hovering the mouse cursor over the Media row reveals the Edit, Delete Permanently, and View options under the File column, in that Media row. Clicking on a Media Title will as well initiate the Edit Action.

The available Deportment are described below:

  • Edit – This Immediate Activity displays the Edit Media Screen. This Action tin be initiated by click on the Media Championship. See the Edit Media for details on editing Media data.
  • Delete permanently – This Action deletes the Media. Delete Permanently is bachelor both as a Bulk Action, and an Immediate Action.
  • View – This Action presents the Media in a fake view of how the paradigm would expect when displayed in your Theme. View is available only every bit an Immediate Action.
  • Attach – In Unattached filtered view, "Attach" action is displayed. By clicking this link, the media tin be attached to selected Posts or Pages. For more than detail well-nigh selecting, see Detect Posts or Pages.

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Discover posts or pages

Clicking Attach link in the "Attached to" column or "Media" column when Unattached filtered view appears Find Posts or Pages dialogue box. From this dialogue box, you tin select a Posts or Pages that the media should be attached to. Follow the steps:

  1. Search posts or Pages by keyword.
  2. Select the postal service/Page one wants to attach the media.
  3. Click the Select button.

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Apply

Afterward one or more Media are selected, and after a Majority Activeness is specified, the Apply button performs the given Action on the selected Media.

  • Apply – Click the Apply button to execute the Bulk Activity, specified in the Actions pulldown, on the selected Media. Retrieve, prior to executing Actions, one or more Media must be selected, as described earlier.