Reply To: Gallery field hide media library

• leonmagee

• April 14, 2016 at 2:01 pm

I created a custom user role with capabilities similar to ‘author’. The code you posted limited the images visible in the Gallery field itself but not in the media library. I was able to get it working with the following:

function restrict_media_library_to_current_user( $wp_query_obj ) {

	if ( ! current_user_can( 'level_5' ) ) {

		global $current_user, $pagenow;

		if (  ! is_a( $current_user, 'WP_User' ) || 'admin-ajax.php' != $pagenow || $_REQUEST['action'] != 'query-attachments' ) {
			return;
		}

		$wp_query_obj->set( 'author', $current_user->ID );

		return;
	}
}

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'restrict_media_library_to_current_user' );