pascalcrb

I notice that you provide a “count” which I assume would stand for the number of posts an image is used in. However, my csv-export shows only one occurrence/line of each image in media library, even where the count is larger than one. There are also lines with “Used in (count)” = 0.

I would find it a useful reminder if you would find a place to describe the meaning of each column in the csv, especially for :
Used In (count)
Used In (posts)
Used In (URLs)
Unused

Hi Atlas,

In the tab where one selects the “Exoprt Fields”, under the heading of “Relations”, you might consider distinguishing between a “Parent Post” and “Post-where-image-is-used”, possibly by applying following definitions:

• Parent Post := “the Post from which the action was initiated to upload an image”
• UsedBy Post := “the Post in which the image was loaded from the Media Library”

Obviously, in the resulting export file, you would then have a new/separate line for each found Post where the image is used in.

Looking forward to see your beta-release accommodating this new feature 🙂

Pascal

Hi Atlas,
Happy to test 🙂
It seems that I’m ‘rather good as testing and breaking devices’ – haha 🙂

We’ll see how well I will do this time.

I see the “work and data flow” in WordPress as follows (is this correct?):

.. media (images) can be  uploaded in two distinct flows:

1.. while a new post is being created and in editing mode

2.. from the Dashboard Media menu

In case 1.. the media item gets the current post-ID as associated parent

In case 2.. the media has NO associated parent

Impact/consequence:

Even when a particular media item is later inserted in another post, it will still be associated with its original parent – or remain non-associated after all. The “Parent” therefore becomes a ‘static’ infromation element.

When the plugin runs through all images,
.. it will list the image metadata, hence including the post “from where” the media upload action was initiated, OR
.. if media is uploaded from the dashboard menu, there will be no parent associated, which explains why some images indeed do not have parent data in the list

If I would like to see a list of media items with all posts they are included in, then the plugin would start from the posts data and make a list record for each media item it encounters per post.
The “Parent-Media” relationship then will be “dynamically” retrieved from the actual situation (which may indeed change if a post is later edited…).
This is particularly valid as we are using ‘posts’ as ‘articles’ bundled per month to form a monthly newsletter …