User Profile, Gallery Field, Limit To 'Uploaded to Post' Not Working

• Will

• June 2, 2017 at 3:21 am

I’ve added a gallery field to user profile forms as I’d like users to be able to add/manage images associated with their profile. But I would like them to only be able to use images that they have uploaded. As it stands, using the ‘uploaded to post” limiter, this doesn’t really do anything for a user profile. Any ideas on how to work around this? Or should it just be a feature request – a user gallery field?

Note: I did add the user capability to upload files to this user type. As long as the forms with which the user can interact are restricted, this should be a secure.

• Will

• June 3, 2017 at 12:16 am

I kept the field as “library:all”, but filtered the media that could be seen like so (fill in your own USERTYPE):

/**
 * 	Limit media access to only their own media for certain users
 */
add_filter( 'ajax_query_attachments_args', 'mr_mp_filter_media' );
function mr_mp_filter_media( $query ) {
    if ( current_user_can( 'USERTYPE' ) || current_user_can( 'USERTYPE2' ) ) {
        $query['author'] = get_current_user_id();
    }
    return $query;
}