Customize Media Add New SubPanel – filter hook, meta box?

  • luispunchy

    (@luispunchy)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    Hi – I basically am looking for a filter hook that will allow me to customize the Media Add New SubPanel. The customization in this particular case will just be to add some “how to” content to the panel for a client.

    I am assuming there will be a hook to do this, which I can add to functions.php, rather than hacking a core file…

    If nobody knows of a hook, then perhaps somebody can tell me what core file I’d edit (ugh!) to hard-code my desired message to appear on the Media Add New SubPanel (as well as core files for all related media panels, i.e. the Media Library SubPanel, etc).

    Another thought is perhaps I can add a meta box to the panel? Again, not sure how to go about doing that exactly, but I assume it would via some hook again added to the functions.php…

    Many thanks for any assistance, links to resources, etc.

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  • dougfoster

    (@dougfoster)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Hey, did you figure this out? I’ve spent many brain cells trying to figure out how to link media with categories and/or taxonomy, to make it function like a true CMS.

    Thread Starter luispunchy

    (@luispunchy)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    @dougfoster – nope, didn’t figure out the “customize Media Add New subpanel” issue, out but stopped trying. Instead, I cobbled together an alternate solution (for my particular need at the time) via a custom meta box. It was a rather laborious affair honestly… a bit more than I can explain here but if you google “custom meta box wordpress” you’ll find plenty of resources.

    Perhaps another solution would be one of the custom write panel / meta box / custom field plugins… several do basically the same thing which is allow you to create custom meta boxes that save to custom fields. Really they are just nice GUIs for the client. But some include support for the “add media” functionality, wysiwyg text boxes etc. Search the plugins repository for “custom fields”… and good luck!

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