Title: Customize Media Manager
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Customize Media Manager

 *  Resolved [mirrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mirrera/)
 * (@mirrera)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-media-manager/)
 * I have looked far and wide, and tried numerous plugins but can not find a simple
   way to offer my beginner users a way to simply upload a picture, no galleries,
   no video, no library of other people’s photos. Just upload, see it in the editor
   and move on. I can take care of the size and placement in the style sheet.
 * I have tried hiding the media buttons and using the SBUploader plugin with some
   custom meta boxes. The SBUploader gives no control over placement it just puts
   the image below the text. So I added custom meta boxes with editors for text 
   below each post. The problem is that the uploaded images do not show in the editor,
   so my users will be confused.Plus I feel like I am inventing a square wheel.
 * I went back to turning on the Media Manager and found a way to unset the gallery,
   and url tag but then it defaults to a very confusing screen, since the media 
   manager defaults to library view instead of upload. I am so stunned that with
   the upgrade and people all over the web asking for a way to customize media management
   that I can’t find an alternative Media Manager.
 * Can someone point me to either a simple plugin for uploading images and having
   them show in the editor, without any other features? Or a way to hook into the
   current media manager and have it open to the upload screen, insert into post,
   and nothing else. I would love the ability to have a user see a library of the
   images that they have uploaded, but that may be too much. I would be happy to
   pay for a plugin like that!

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 *  [Marcel Brinkkemper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macbrink/)
 * (@macbrink)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-media-manager/#post-3492110)
 * Have you tried to use a filter for `'media_view_strings'`?
    I have made a similar
   uploader like you need with a filter like this:
 *     ```
       function my_view_strings( $strings) {
         // disable some views
         $disabled = array( 'selectFiles', 'createNewGallery', insertFromUrlTitle', 'createGalleryTitle' );
         foreach( $disabled as $string )
           $strings[$string] = '';
         $strings['allMediaItems'] = __( 'Select a view', 'eazyest-gallery' );
         $strings['insertIntoPost']     = __( 'Done uploading', 'eazyest-gallery' );
         return $strings;
       }
       add_filter( 'media_view_strings', 'my_view_strings' );
       ```
   
 * and add this in a style element to hide the buttons:
 *     ```
       .button.button-large.media-button-gallery {
         height: 0;
         padding: 0;
       }
       .media-menu-item:empty {
         display: none;
       }
       ```
   
 * hope this helps
 *  Thread Starter [mirrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mirrera/)
 * (@mirrera)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-media-manager/#post-3492179)
 * Hi,
    Yes Thank you! I did do that at first, but I could not get the simplicity
   that I wanted because I could _not_ get my CSS to over-ride the media template
   even with !important, then I found a filter that made it possible to add styles(
   thanks to: brasofilo: [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/75746/how-to-add-custom-css-to-the-media-thickbox](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/75746/how-to-add-custom-css-to-the-media-thickbox)).
   From that point on it was FUN. I ended up unsetting the media library tab, styling
   away everything except the uploader. I also styled away the edit button in the
   editor window and put it all in a plugin for a simple uploader. Then I made another
   plugin for removing all links around images. Then I styled all the different 
   alignment possibilities to be what I want them to be in my normal stylesheet.
 * Here is what I used for the uploader plugin (I am sure there are extra styles,
   but it was late and it works) It can also just go in the functions.php for anyone
   else that does not want to have a plugin:
 *     ```
       //Get rid of media library tab
       add_filter( 'media_view_strings', 'custom_media_uploader' );
       function custom_media_uploader( $strings ) {
       	unset( $strings['mediaLibraryTitle'] ); //Media Library
       	 return $strings;
       }
       //Add new styles to get rid of what I don't want and to make it pretty
       add_action( 'print_media_templates', 'my_simple_uploader' );
       function my_simple_uploader()
       {
           ?>
           <!--Style away the side menu, the media library browser, re-design what is left-->
           <style>
           	.media-menu,.attachments-browser,.media-frame-menu,#wp_editimgbtn,.media-router .active:after {
                   display:none;
               }
       		.media-modal{
       			width:600px;
       			max-height:400px;
       			margin:auto;
       		}
       		.media-frame-title h1{
       			font-family:"gill sans";
       		}
       		.media-frame-title,.media-frame-router,.media-frame-toolbar{
       			left:0px;
       			text-align:center;
       		}
       		.media-frame-content,.uploader-inline-content{
       			margin-top:40px;
       			position:static;
       			text-align:center;
       		}
       		.media-toolbar,.media-toolbar-primary{
       			position:static;
       			width:128px;
       			padding:0px;
       			margin:auto;
       			float:none;
       			text-align:center;
       		}
       		media-button-insert{
       			display:block;
       		}
       		.media-router{
       			float:none;
       			width:100px;
       			margin:auto;
       		}
       		.media-router a{
       			border-right:0px;
       		}
           </style>
           <?php
       }
       ```
   
 * Here is the filter for removing link tags around all images before they go to
   the browser. Even old ones which is great because I was re-designing a blog with
   old posts. I tried a number of filters with regex but this one worked for me,
   and I am happy not to have to write my own preg_replace (thanks to: krembo99:
   [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11282580/how-to-remove-hyperlink-of-images-in-wordpress-post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11282580/how-to-remove-hyperlink-of-images-in-wordpress-post)).(
   Note; this works in the functions.php but I made a separate plugin for it.) Here
   is the code:
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'the_content', 'remove_image_link' );
       function remove_image_link( $content ) {
           $content =
               preg_replace(array('{<a[^>]*><img}','{/></a>}'), array('<img','/>'), $content);
           return $content;
       }
       ```
   
 *  [Marcel Brinkkemper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macbrink/)
 * (@macbrink)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-media-manager/#post-3492312)
 * This works great,
    Now I only need a way to distinguish between Add Media and
   Set featured image.
 *  Thread Starter [mirrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mirrera/)
 * (@mirrera)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-media-manager/#post-3492313)
 * I was lucky, I did not need featured image capability. I am sure that would be
   very useful (and challenging!). I would be interested to see what you come up
   with.
 * I am surprised —with all the work that went into the Media Manager— that the 
   developers have not come up with a back-end way to turn on and off every possible
   feature. Like the Adminize plugin does for the admin screens. I think it should
   be a core feature.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-media-manager/#post-3492313)
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