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SLT File Select

File Select is a WordPress plugin that provides theme and plugin developers with the ability to easily invoke the Media Library overlay for uploading and selecting files for custom fields.

It was developed primarily to work with my Custom Fields plugin, and the functionality was separated out into another plugin in case people wanted to just use the Media Library overlay (in their own plugins, or in custom themes).

However, I’ve decided now to include this functionality in the Custom Fields plugin to reduce dependencies. I’ll leave this here in case it’s useful to anyone. But if you’re using my Custom Fields plugin, you don’t need this one, and the functionality is still exposed so you can use it outside Custom Fields.

I won’t be updating this plugin in the future.

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SLT File Select

Contributors: gyrus
Donate link: www.babyloniantimes.co.uk/index.php?page=donate
Tags: admin, administration, media, media library, custom fields
Requires at least: 3.0
Tested up to: 3.1.1
Stable tag: 0.2

Provides theme developers with a way to integrate the Media Library overlay dialogue with custom fields.

Description

This plugin is aimed at theme developers who need a form interface for selecting an item from the Media Library, or uploading a new file into the Library. A hidden field is populated with the ID of the selected item, and for image files a preview of a specified size is displayed. For non-image files, an icon and a file link is shown.

<?php slt_fs_button( $name, $value, $label = 'Select file', $preview_size = 'thumbnail', $removable = true ) ?>

This function inserts the file select field, which includes a button to open the Media Library overlay, an optional 'Remove' checkbox, a hidden field containing the file's ID, and a preview where appropriate.
  • $name (string) (required) - The name for the field containing the file's ID.
  • $value (string) (required) - The current value of the field.
  • $label (string) (optional) (default: 'Select file') A label for the button.
  • $preview_size (string) (optional) (default: 'thumbnail') The size for the preview of images.
  • $removable (boolean) (optional) (default: true) Should there be a checkbox allowing users to remove the selected file from the field?

Installation

  1. Upload the slt-file-select directory into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
  3. Include the file select button in your form with slt_fs_button (see Usage instructions)

Changelog

0.2.1

  • Disabled Flash uploader for Media Library overlay when plugin is invoked
  • Changed JS to remove 'Insert into Post' button then prepend 'Select' button due to odd circumstances where the 'Insert into Post' button is missing

0.2

  • First release
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