Attachments
Extensive usage instructions are available on GitHub Attachments allows you to simply append any number of items from your WordPress Media Library to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types. Associate Media items with posts The idea behind Attachments is to give developers the ability to directly associate Media items with any post. This is accomplished by adding a meta box to post edit screens as determined by the developer. Once Media items have been associated with a post, you’re able to retrieve those Attachments and include them directly within your template files using any specific markup you wish. Integrate Attachments within your theme with fine grained control Attachments does not automatically integrate itself with your theme. Since the idea behind Attachments is to allow integration of Media within posts using developer-crafted, unique markup, it’s up to you to integrate with your theme. The most basic integration includes editing the appropriate template file and adding your call(s) to Attachments. For example, if you have set up Attachments to be used with your Posts entries, edit single.php to include the following within The Loop: exist() ) : ?> Attachments Total Attachments: total(); ?> get() ) : ?> ID: id(); ?> Type: type(); ?> Subtype: subtype(); ?> URL: url(); ?> Image: image( 'thumbnail' ); ?> Source: src( 'full' ); ?> Size: filesize(); ?> Title Field: field( 'title' ); ?> Caption Field: field( 'caption' ); ?> That snippet will request all of the existing Attachments defined for the current Post within The Loop, and retrieve each itemized property for that Attachment. Using the provided details you’re able to integrate the attached Media items in any way you please. There is a lot more information on Attachments’ GitHub page. Please contribute! Roadmap Please see Attachments on GitHub Usage Extensive usage instructions are available on GitHub
Autoremove Attachments
Autoremove Attachments helps you keep the Media Library clean by deleting all media files attached as child attachments to a post, page, or custom post type when the parent is deleted. By default, when you delete content from your website, regardless if it’s a post, a page, a product, or any kind of post type, WordPress keeps the media files previously associated with it, even if after the removal of your content they are not used anywhere else. Autoremove Attachments tries to solve this problem by automating the removal of all media files that have a child-parent relationship with the removed content. (so you don’t have to manually track and remove orphan files left on your server) Important Considerations A soft delete that places your post, page, or custom post type in Trash will not trigger the removal of its child attachments. The purge happens when you empty your trash. When you delete a post, page or custom post type, we try to determine if its child attachments are used anywhere else on your website. If they are, we do not remove them, to prevent broken links. The additional checks before the automatic removal can be disabled from the Media Settings for improved performance on large websites with thousands of posts and media files. The plugin only removes files tracked by WordPress. Some poorly coded themes generate additional thumbnail sizes that are not tracked by WordPress and this always leads to orphan files left on your server. Compatibility and Third-Party Support WooCommerce Easy Digital Downloads All themes and plugins that do things the WordPress way If you use a plugin to optimize and clean your database of revisions, trashed posts, etc, make sure you use one that relies on native WordPress functions to perform the maintenance tasks. We recommend WP-Sweep.
