Front-end form: Image upload problem

• squarestarmedia

• June 12, 2014 at 12:05 am

I have a form for users to upload images to a new custom post type. The form resides on a WordPress page, using a page template to include the required ACF code.

The issue is that when a user clicks “Add Image”, all the images in the Media Library show up in the uploader’s “Media Library” tab as “uploaded to this post”.

How can I stop such media from being displayed?

Thanks

• slickorange

• June 27, 2014 at 9:04 am

I have exactly the same problem.

• squarestarmedia

• June 27, 2014 at 9:14 am

@Elliot – any chance you could take a look at this?

• The Portland Company

• December 19, 2014 at 9:45 am

Same here.

• makdas

• February 25, 2015 at 7:08 am

@Elliot – same here!!

• wunderbaresnet

• February 25, 2015 at 8:57 pm

You can add this to your functions.php to restrict shown media to the items owned by the current user:

add_action('pre_get_posts','my_restrict_media_library');
function my_restrict_media_library( $wp_query_obj ) {

global $current_user, $pagenow;

if( !is_a( $current_user, 'WP_User') )

return;

if( 'admin-ajax.php' != $pagenow || $_REQUEST['action'] != 'query-attachments' )

return;

if( !current_user_can('edit_files') )

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

return;

}