WordPress enables theme developers to customize the look, feel, and functionality of the platform’s core media capabilities.<\/p>\n
In WordPress you can upload, store, and display a variety of media such as image, video and audio files. Media can be uploaded via the Media > Add New<\/strong> in the Administration Screen<\/a>, or Add Media button on the Post\/Page Editor.<\/p>\n If a media file is uploaded within the edit screen, it will be automatically attached to the current post being created or edited. If it is uploaded via the Media’s Add New Screen or the Media Library Screen, it will be unattached, but may become attached to a post when it is inserted into a post later on.<\/p>\n To retrieve the attachment ID, use If you want to retrieve images from the post ID only, specify post_mime_type as image.<\/p>\n In the Media Library, you can upload any file (with the network administrator’s unfiltered_upload) and not just images or videos but text files, office documents or even binary files. Single site administrators do not have the unfiltered_upload capability by default and requires that definition to be set for the capability to kick in. Audio and Video files are processed by the internal library When you cannot get your attached media by Retrieving attachment ID or image ID<\/h3>\n
get_posts()<\/a><\/code> or get_children()<\/a><\/code> function. This example retrieves the all attachments of the current post and getting all metadata of attachment by specifying the ID.<\/p>\n\/\/ Insert into the Loop\n$args = array(\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0'post_parent'\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 => get_the_ID(),\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0'post_type'\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 => 'attachment',\n);\n$attachments = get_posts( $args );\nif ( $attachments ) {\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) {\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0$meta_data = wp_get_attachment_metadata( $attachment->ID, false );\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0}\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n$args = array(\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0'post_parent'\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 => get_the_ID(),\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0'post_type'\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 => 'attachment',\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0'post_mime_type' => 'image',\n);<\/code><\/pre>\nReferences<\/h4>\n
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get_posts()<\/a><\/code><\/li>\nget_children()<\/a><\/code><\/li>\nwp_get_attachment_metadata()<\/a><\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSpecial considerations<\/h2>\n
Compatible media formats<\/h3>\n
MediaElement.js<\/code>. <\/p>\n\n
Troubleshooting:<\/h3>\n
Cannot retrieve attachment<\/h4>\n
get_posts()<\/a><\/code> or get_children()<\/a><\/code> function, confirm your media is really attached to the post.
\nFrom the Administration Screen<\/a>, Click Media > Library<\/strong> to open the Media Library and confirm the value in “Uploaded to” column of the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12560283,"featured_media":0,"parent":5819,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11360","theme-handbook","type-theme-handbook","status-publish","hentry","type-handbook"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/theme-handbook\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/theme-handbook"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/theme-handbook"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12560283"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/theme-handbook\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25161,"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/theme-handbook\/11360\/revisions\/25161"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/theme-handbook\/5819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}