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1. aicos
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi I don't know if this is the right place to post or not, but I was wondering if some could tell me how to extract the contents from the image fields in the media library. I've been trying to get wp_get_attachment_metadata() to work some success.

   The thing is, the caption and description elements are blank when I examine the resulting array with print_r(). But all other elements are filled in. And they don't seem to be in the "postmeta" table either. But when I look at the image fields again in the media library, they seem to have content.

   Thanks in advance.

2. mrlarner
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   just stumbled across this post...

   attachments are stored like regular posts in the posts table. caption and description are stored are post_excerpt and post_content.

   if you are getting attachments with get_children you could do something like

   if($images =& get_children( 'post_type=attachment' )){
      foreach($images as $image){
         $caption = $image->post_excerpt;
         $description = $image->post_content;
         //do whatever
      }
   }

   get_children

   hope that helps!

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