Discussion:
Time to upgrade WordPress Media?
Funkatron
2013-09-18 13:37:06 UTC
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Was thinking about this the past few days: currently any media files
uploaded to a WordPress site defaults to the post status of `inherit`,
which is a holdover to when media attachments were just that. Media was
attached to a certain post, so it inherited the post's status. We are
starting to get away from attaching media directly to posts now and are
even making them post like by allowing meta boxes and taxonomies in recent
versions of WP. I think a next logical step is to give media post statuses
other than `inherit`. I can think of a number of cases where making an
image or file private could be useful, among other things.
William P. Davis
2013-09-18 13:41:19 UTC
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I second this. I haven't looked into this — does anyone know if it could be
done easily with a plugin?

Will
Post by Funkatron
Was thinking about this the past few days: currently any media files
uploaded to a WordPress site defaults to the post status of `inherit`,
which is a holdover to when media attachments were just that. Media was
attached to a certain post, so it inherited the post's status. We are
starting to get away from attaching media directly to posts now and are
even making them post like by allowing meta boxes and taxonomies in recent
versions of WP. I think a next logical step is to give media post statuses
other than `inherit`. I can think of a number of cases where making an
image or file private could be useful, among other things.
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Eric Hendrix
2013-09-18 13:49:24 UTC
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I completely agree having built mostly media-heavy sites the past couple of years. And there's no plugin that I can remember. 

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Post by Funkatron
Was thinking about this the past few days: currently any media files
uploaded to a WordPress site defaults to the post status of `inherit`,
which is a holdover to when media attachments were just that. Media was
attached to a certain post, so it inherited the post's status. We are
starting to get away from attaching media directly to posts now and are
even making them post like by allowing meta boxes and taxonomies in recent
versions of WP. I think a next logical step is to give media post statuses
other than `inherit`. I can think of a number of cases where making an
image or file private could be useful, among other things.
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John
2013-09-18 14:06:42 UTC
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Related: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17255
Post by Eric Hendrix
I completely agree having built mostly media-heavy sites the past couple
of years. And there's no plugin that I can remember.
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Post by Funkatron
Was thinking about this the past few days: currently any media files
uploaded to a WordPress site defaults to the post status of `inherit`,
which is a holdover to when media attachments were just that. Media was
attached to a certain post, so it inherited the post's status. We are
starting to get away from attaching media directly to posts now and are
even making them post like by allowing meta boxes and taxonomies in
recent
Post by Funkatron
versions of WP. I think a next logical step is to give media post
statuses
Post by Funkatron
other than `inherit`. I can think of a number of cases where making an
image or file private could be useful, among other things.
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