Gallery Images
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I have many 100s of images in my gallery. Is there an easy way of finding out which posts they are on ?
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Hi there,
If you open the image in the library, on the bottom right there should be these links
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https://snipboard.io/wnq3Jt.jpg” border=”” alt=”” height=”” width=””>If you follow the “view attachment page ” it should take you to the post where the image is used.
I hope this helps.
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Thanks for your answer. We are using the new block editor and we think your answers refers to the ‘classic editor’ as we don’t get the links when we click bottom right on an image. If you comments are for the new block editor, our screen doesn’t work in the same way as yours, what browser are you using ? In the classic editor you could select ‘unattached’ within media and it would show all ‘unattached’ images. This seems to be missing in the new block editor. Thanks again for your reply.
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Ahh, yes. You are right, about my interface being the classic editor. I did switch to the advanced pages (more like classic editor/old wp-admin view). It does look like this option is only available if you switch from the new block editor dashboard to the old advanced/classic editor.
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I have many 100s of images in my gallery.
I think you mean that there are 100s of images in your site’s media library. Is that correct?If so, then I’d suggest you try the WP-Admin media library. If you’ve attached an image to a post or page, then the list version of the WP-Admin media library will tell you which post an image is attached to. For this reason I nearly always attach an image to a page. However, if you use the same image in multiple posts and pages, then the WP-Admin media library will not provide that information. In this regard, it can only tell you whether an image is attached, and if so, which page, post, etc. the image is attached to.
The Calypso (My Sites) media library by contrast, doesn’t, so far as I can tell, provide any information as to whether an image is attached, and if so, where it is is attached.
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Thanks for your reply. We used to use the WP-Admin media library tools in classic Editor, but we cant find this functionality the new block editor. Where should we be looking ?
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The WP-Admin media library isn’t available via the Block Editor. So you access it via WP-Admin, as you’ve always done. If you’re having trouble accessing WP-Admin, you’re not alone. WordPress.com is up to its hide and seek games again with the old interface and the Classic Editor. But all is not lost…yet.
The Classic Editor is still available to all WordPress.com users, and it’s still free. Here’s the Classic Editor support page, and the recently revised How to Access the Classic Editor section of that support page.
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Hi there,
WordPress has a new default interface and to access the WP-Admin area please follow this guide which allows you to move from the block editor interface to the WP- admin advanced pages where you have options in your media library. Navigate to https://wordpress.com/me/account, and activate the dashboard appearance as illustrated in the image below
If you prefer the block editor for everything else, you can switch back to it after you are done with the media library.
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@therefoiam,
Thanks! I realized that I’d forgotten to provide that info, and was preparing to do so when I updated and saw your response. : )
In addition to what @therefoiam has said, if you’re curious about the recent “Unified Navigation” design update rolled out by WordPress.com, then you can read more about it in this announcement, and in the forum topic Unified Navigation.
I forgot also to note that WP.com has removed the link to WP-Admin from the Calypso interface, so you might want to keep a bookmark for that. I’ve kept bookmarks to a lot of WP-Admin pages for years. If you don’t yet have a bookmark, the WP-Admin dashboard can be reached by adding “wp-admin/” to your site address (URL).
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I forgot also to note that WP.com has removed the link to WP-Admin from the Calypso interface
You can find that link in the sidebar of your Account page at https://wordpress.com/me under “Manage Blogs”. I find it convenient to simply bookmark that link to the Global Dashboard or pin it in my browser when on the WordPress.com site. Cheers!
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You can find that link in the sidebar of your Account page at https://wordpress.com/me under “Manage Blogs”.
That’s hardly a convenient or well-known link, and besides the link goes to the “Global” WP-Admin dashboard page, which has an almost empty admin menu at the left, and not to the main WP-Admin dashboard page. So more work is required to get to the main dashboard page, deleting part of the extension or what not.
What I should have said is that the principal WP-Admin link has been removed or hidden from the Calypso admin menu. I refer to the WP-Admin link that the majority of regular users knew about (though it too could have been, and should have been, a lot more prominently displayed) and not to the hidden one in the Account pages menu. The reason for removing or hiding the main WP-Admin link in Calypso is obvious. WordPress.com is again, as is their wont, trying to discourage use of the WP-Admin dashboard, and the Classic Editor, by making it a more difficult to reach them.
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You can find that link in the sidebar of your Account page at https://wordpress.com/me under “Manage Blogs”.
The “Manage Blogs” link in the Account pages menu goes to the “Global” dashboard, which has virtually no admin menu items, and none at all that go to WP-Admin pages, rather than to the main WP-Admin dashboard. So if one is trying to reach the WP-Admin dashboard and uses the link you suggest, then there is still work to be done to reach the desired page, and many users won’t know or be able to quickly figure out that deleting part of the URL extension will get you there. Why should they be compelled to do remove part of an URL extension to reach the main WP-Admin dashboard? And on what planet is hiding a link to WP-Admin — a link that doesn’t even go to the main dashboard — in the Account pages considered a satisfactory design choice?
I forgot also to note that WP.com has removed the link to WP-Admin from the Calypso interface
What I should have said, what I obviously meant, is that the WP-Admin link previously found at the bottom of the Calypso admin menu has been removed or hidden. This is the link that the majority of users, other than novices and infrequent users, were probably aware of, and which was probably used at a thousand times the frequency of the inadequate link in the Account pages. The reason for it’s removal is obvious. WordPress has again, as is their wont, taken another step to discourage use of the WP-Admin interface and the Classic Editor by making it more difficult to reach them.
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Sorry for the duplication in my last two posts. My browser was showing that the first one remained unpublished after submitting it. I couldn’t find a trace of it, and took it for lost. The second was a rewrite of the first, with some revision.
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I find the Global Dashboard a convenient way to get to my site dashboard directly by clicking on the site title rather than going the circuitous route through MySites.
But this is only relevant if you have Advanced Dashboard Pages enabled in your Account Interface Settings.
To each his or her own.
Cheers.
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