Disable user ability to edit photo on gallery upload?

• elliotmersch

• October 19, 2021 at 11:19 am

I’ve set my gallery field to NOT use the wordpress media library for upload, so it is a simple file upload. However, once the user selects a photo, the thumbnail appears and they can click on it to edit the photo name, alt tag, description, etc.

How can I disable the ability for a user to edit these fields? When they click the thumbnail, I want nothing to happen.

Thanks in advance.

• John Huebner

• October 22, 2021 at 12:31 pm

What do you mean by this

I’ve set my gallery field to NOT use the wordpress media library for upload

Do you mean Library - Uploaded to Post

All images added to a gallery are uploaded to the media library. This just limits the selection to images that have been uploaded while editing a post.

Anyway, no, it is not possible to disable this without altering ACF JavaScriot code

• Tolkien

• February 11, 2022 at 8:03 am

I had a lot of headaches because of editing photos in the way I like…