Manage Media

This explains how to add new media to wordpress.  This included images, pdf and other files  that we want to put on pages or create links to.  The default wordpress media manager just puts everything in the same place with no easy way to find or organize things.  I installed a plug called Media Manager Assistant that allows us to put categories on media files and filter by them.  Still not as easy as just going through folders but helps.

Key to keeping our media files organized so we can find what we want using filters is make sure they are assigned to an attachment category (att category)

 

Add New Media To WordPress

• Like everything else there are multiple place you can find options to add media. Here is the best way I have found to add new media so it can have a category attached to it.
• In the admin menu select Media -> Add New
• Select the category you want to add the media to
  • if one doesn’t apply it would be best to go to admin menu and select media -> att category and create the category
• Add your media by drag and drop of use the select media button to find it on your computer

Bulk update media attachment categories

• If you added media without an attachment category you can open the media file and change or the plugin has the ability to do a bulk update.
• Under the admin menu go to media -> assistant
• This will open all the media with a filter at the top
• Easy way to find media without a category is change the All Att Categories to No Att Categories and hit filter
• Click the Bulk Actions and change to Edit
• Select the files you want to change and hit the Apply button
• Select the Att. Category you want them to be in and hit the update button

Adding Media to a page or post

• Open the page or post you want to add media to
• Go to the area in the post you want to add media
• Click the Add Media button
• This will open all the media up
• You can use the filters to easily find the media you want to add
• Select the media you want to add and click Insert
• If you want to add multiple pictures and make a gallery
  • When the media opens select Create Gallery
  • Use the filter options to find what you want
  • Select the media files you want to have in a gallery
  • Click Create a new Gallery
  • On the next page you can change how the gallery will look
  • You can change these after you add the gallery to the page if you don’t like the way it looks
  • I have found the Type option can do some nice things
  • Click insert gallery to add it to the page
  • Once it is on the page you can preview it and make changes.
  • To change it just click on the images and you will see a pencil icon.  If you click that it will open the gallery options to adjust