Hello.
I’ve built a front end form using Advanced Forms and have a few upload files present.
I’d like to make all form-submitted media not appear in the media library. Only accessible via file url.
Is this possible? Thank you very much!
To exclude files from the media library display you must create a pre_get_posts() filter the removes them from the list.
I don’t remember all of the details of doing this,, but it will require having some way to determine that the files were uploaded through the specific form. Possibly by creating a custom field for files that is set.
There are many examples of doing this, for example this one only shows files uploaded by the current user https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/76771/how-can-i-hide-media-library-images-from-general-users
Thank you very much John. This pointed me in the right direction.
For anyone wondering, I ended up adding a meta field to the newly created attachment from the upload using update_post_meta after form submission.
And then pre-filtered the posts query on the upload.php and admin-ajax.php (both media library access points) for attachments without the meta field using pre_get_posts().
Thank you! 🙂
