Title: categories for adding/selecting image while post editiging
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# categories for adding/selecting image while post editiging

 *  [frontenmichael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frontenmichael/)
 * (@frontenmichael)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-for-addingselecting-image-while-post-editiging/)
 * hello,
 * the plugin works fine inside of the Media Library. Using Categories to filter
   the Images etc.
 * Unfortunately when I’m editing a post or page and click on ‘add image’ the mcm
   categories dont show up in the ‘selecting image’ dialogue.
 * is it possible to enable categories and filtering at this point as well?
    [](https://www.dropbox.com/s/qh4efopo46re5qr/mcm.jpg?dl=0)
 * regards,
    michael
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-category-management/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-category-management/)

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 *  Plugin Author [DeBAAT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/debaat/)
 * (@debaat)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-for-addingselecting-image-while-post-editiging/#post-6719947)
 * Hai Marco,
    Thanks for using my plugin. I’m not quite sure what the problem might
   be. I’m working on a new version that might be less resrictive on when to display
   the media selection drop down. Jan
 *  Thread Starter [frontenmichael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frontenmichael/)
 * (@frontenmichael)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-for-addingselecting-image-while-post-editiging/#post-6719949)
 * thanks for the info, so the issue is a bug.
    when do you estimate the new version
   will be available?
 * regards,
    michael
 *  [nscalessa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nscalessa/)
 * (@nscalessa)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-for-addingselecting-image-while-post-editiging/#post-6719962)
 * I am having the same problem. I have hundreds of images within categories and
   I cannot insert them in anything. When I try to insert an image or create a slideshow,
   gallery etc. it says no images found even though I have chosen one of the categories
   from the pull down menu. Also the images when browsing in the media library do
   not show up in grid view. This is very frustrating and I am now having to re-
   upload images without tags so I can use them in my posts.
 *  [nscalessa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nscalessa/)
 * (@nscalessa)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-for-addingselecting-image-while-post-editiging/#post-6719963)
 * If I uninstall your plugin what will happen to my images? Will they go back into
   the media library untagged or be deleted?
 *  Plugin Author [DeBAAT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/debaat/)
 * (@debaat)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-for-addingselecting-image-while-post-editiging/#post-6719964)
 * Hai all,
    I’ve just uploaded version 1.8.0 where there is no restriction on when
   to show the media selection drop down.
 * [@nscalessa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nscalessa/),
    I’m not quite 
   sure whether this is indeed the same problem. The plugin doesn’t touch the images
   themselves, it only registers category information on an image. So when you disable(
   or uninstall) the plugin, this should have no effect on the images stored on 
   your site. In fact, all information regarding categories or taxonomies will stay
   in the WordPress database and will be available again when the plugin is re-activated.
   So I’m very curious as to why your images are not shown. Did you test other plugins
   active on your site? In a situation like this, I would deactivate all plugins
   to see whether the basic functionality is working. From then on, I would re-activate
   the plugins one by one and test the required functionality after each activation.
   In the end, this would often show which plugin is causing the issue.
 * Hope this helps.
    Jan

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