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Hi, Is there anyway to to add attachments using piklist rather than adding them in the content area via the “insert Media” button in the wysiwyg?
I don’t want to use a custom field, I want to select them via a piklist field and then store them how wordpress stores them – as attachments.
I then want to use something like “get_attached_media( ‘image’, $post_id )” to get the attachments.
I did try to use the code from the demo: https://gist.github.com/beatelite/eecbbd5b301ac62583b9245af5547278
However, it’s doing this weird thing where when I select three images and then publish, all three images become the first one selected. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MfNye3lvLrzwnu59TQ62d4AykZahzm2y
What am I missing?
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Yes, it does. I tried it on another post type and I’m still having the same issue.
I did notice that the demo does away with the traditional featured media box. Would that need to be done in order for it to work?
I dug around the demo code to see how you removed it but I didn’t see anything specific. Let me know if you have any other ideas. As always, thanks for your help, Steve!
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Yup… You need to remove the default featured image metabox or else you are duplicating the field.
This doc explains how to remove it: https://piklist.github.io/docs/faq/fields-not-saving/
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Update: This works once I hid the featured media box: https://piklist.com/support/topic/hide-the-feature-image-default-box/
,'hide_meta_box' => array( /* here the Feature image div */ ,'postimagediv' )The images now appear correctly. However, now I have a new issue. I can’t get them via any wp method.
I’ve tried:
global $post; $attachments = get_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_status' => 'any', 'post_parent' => $post->ID, 'exclude' => get_post_thumbnail_id(), ) );and
$attachments = get_children(array('post_parent' => $post->ID, 'post_status' => 'inherit', 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' => 'image', 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'menu_order ID'));The only thing I can get is the the post thumbnail with:
get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID );It looks like piklist isn’t actually attaching these extra images to the custom post type or I’m missing something. Any advice is appreciated.
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One more update: I noticed that the following code:
get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_thumbnail_id', false );gets the ids of all the attachments. That’s great and all but I am trying to avoid custom post meta to pull them. I was anticipating using native wp functions like (get_posts etc) to get the attachments because I have a frontend page builder that uses those functions to grab attachments and I don’t really want to hack into it.
Let me know if this is possible.
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Everything about Piklist is done the WordPress way including retrieving data. You can use the native WordPress function get_post_meta to retrieve the attachment information.
As for matching the WP featured image field name… if you are replacing the default WordPress field, then you need to use the same field name.
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“Everything about Piklist is done the WordPress way including retrieving data. You can use the native WordPress function get_post_meta to retrieve the attachment information.”
I get that (and really appreciate it!) However, I think i should rephrase that:
Can piklist add media to a post by updating the attachment’s parent field to be the id of the post we’re attaching it to?
For example, this is how I would do it if I was writing something custom:
wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => $attachment_id, 'post_parent' => $post_id ) ); -
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