Multi Image Metabox

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Add a multi-image metabox to your posts, pages and custom post types

Author:Willy bahuaud (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.0
WordPress version tested:3.5.2
Plugin version:1.3.5
Added to WordPress repository:17-12-2012
Last updated:28-11-2017
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Rating, %:98
Rated by:11
Plugin URI:http://wabeo.fr
Total downloads:20 324
Active installs:7 000+
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This plugin add a metabox which allox to upload and link multiple images to one post.
Pictures are linked by the way of meta_value (and attachments ID). They can be reordered using drag and drop.

Number of allowed pictures and concerned post types can be overited using hooks.

Plugin includes many functions to retrieve linked pictures.
For more information on using the plugin, refer to the section “Other Notes”.

Set concerned post types

Paste this into your theme’s functions.php file :

Set allowed number of picts

Paste this into your theme’s functions.php file :
‘_image1’,
‘image2’ => ‘_image2’,
);
return $picts;
}
?>

Set allowed number of picts, depending to the post_type

Paste this into your theme’s functions.php file :
add_filter(‘list_images’,’my_list_images’,10,2);
function my_list_images($list_images, $cpt){
global $typenow;
if($typenow == “my_custom_post_type” || $cpt == “my_custom_post_type”)
$picts = array(
‘image1’ => ‘_image1’,
‘image2’ => ‘_image2’,
‘image3’ => ‘_image3’,
);
else
$picts = array(
‘image1’ => ‘_image1’,
‘image2’ => ‘_image2’,
‘image3’ => ‘_image3’,
‘image4’ => ‘_image4’,
‘image5’ => ‘_image5’,
‘image6’ => ‘_image6’,
‘image7’ => ‘_image7’,
‘image8’ => ‘_image8’,
);
return $picts;
}

get_images_ids()

This function have to be used into a template file, or any function.
It return an array of the linked attachments’s ID.

It take two arguments whose are :

  1. include the thumbnail ? (boolean) if true include the thumbnail in the returned datas

  2. ID (integer) for targeting images linked to a specific post

    45,
    ‘image1’ => 5,
    ‘image2’ => 6,
    ‘image3’ => 12,
    ‘image6’ => 20,
    ‘image7’ => 15
    );

    //Empty pictures ar not returned

    ?>

    get_images_src()

    This function have to be used into a template file, or any function.
    It return an array of URIs and dimension for the linked attachments’s, by order.

It take three agruments whose are :

  1. size (string) the size to return
  2. include the thumbnail ? (boolean) if true include the thumbnail in the returned datas

  3. ID (integer) for targeting images linked to a specific post

    array(
    [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_medium_pict.jpg’,
    [1] => 340,
    [2] => 200,
    [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it…
    ),
    ‘image2’ => array(
    [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_medium_second_pict.jpg’,
    [1] => 340,
    [2] => 200,
    [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it…
    )
    );

    ?>

    get_multi_images_src()

    Same as get_image_src(), but return two sizes for all the pictures.

It take for agruments whose are :

  1. size (string) the size to return
  2. size2 (string) another size to return
  3. include the thumbnail ? (boolean) if true include the thumbnail in the returned datas

  4. ID (integer) for targeting images linked to a specific post

    array(
    [0] => array(
    [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_medium_pict.jpg’,
    [1] => 340,
    [2] => 200,
    [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it…
    ),
    [1] => array(
    [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_full_pict.jpg’,
    [1] => 1020,
    [2] => 600,
    [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it…
    ),
    ),
    ‘image2’ => array(
    [0] => array(
    [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_medium_second_pict.jpg’,
    [1] => 340,
    [2] => 200,
    [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it…
    ),
    [1] => array(
    [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_second_full_pict.jpg’,
    [1] => 1020,
    [2] => 600,
    [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it…
    )
    )
    );
    //Empty pictures ar not returned

    ?>

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