Limit the media library choice to current user?

• krishaamer

• April 22, 2015 at 10:49 pm

Hi! I have a bunch of users uploading pictures to their own profiles on the front-end. I’d like to limit the images they see in the Gallery to only images uploaded by themselves. How would I achieve that?

Thanks.

• FloFlo91

• May 25, 2015 at 11:26 pm

Good question, need that too !!

Somebody can help us please ?

• James

• May 27, 2015 at 7:33 pm

Hi @krishaamer and @floflo91,

Thank you for the question.

This issue is a current limitation of the WP media library popup.

It is only possible to limit the media library to ‘uploaded to a specific post’ or ‘not connected with a post’.

When you are editing a user, the images available are the ones which are not connected with posts.

It is possible for you to tell ACF to use the basic uploader (no media library popup) with this code:

acf_update_setting('uploader', 'basic');

Perhaps you guys could hook into the admin_head and check if that page is an edit user page? Then run this code?

You can also use the new ‘uploader’ setting within the acf_form function for front end uploaders
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-pro-v5-2-4-update/

• orest22

• February 5, 2016 at 4:28 am

Hi @acf-support Couldn’t you use just this hook for that?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/ajax_query_attachments_args

It works for me on front-end

• FloFlo91

• February 7, 2016 at 10:10 pm

@orest22 : What a nice hook, thanks for the share 😉

• krishaamer

• February 7, 2016 at 11:57 pm

Awesome, thanks guys!