Comments on: Automate File Attachments on your WordPress Posts

By: Tony Gray

Tony Gray — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:22:33 +0000

It looks like Roy already made a plugin out of it. http://royhair.com/docicons-plugin/

By: Web Design Melbourne

Web Design Melbourne — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:08:30 +0000

I have just used this on one of our websites, and it just worked straight out of the box.

Fantastic.

Rhank you very much

Could be worth making it into a plugin perhaps?

By: Seungyoun Lee

Seungyoun Lee — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:07:07 +0000

That is really AWESOME !!!
Thank you very much
Usefull Tip!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:19:44 +0000

Tony et al,

Thanks so much for posting this, it’s exactly what I have been looking for. I was wondering if you could help me with a line of code that would be used for my Image.php template.

I need to include the parent post’s attachment icons so that users can easily access all the attachments associated with a single post. I already show the attachment icons on my Single.php template using this snippet you suggested:

echo get_attachment_icons($attachment->ID);

But now I want to show the exact same attachments on the child (image) post and I’m stuck. I was able to successfully show the parent post image gallery by using this:

echo gallery_shortcode( array(‘id’ => $post->post_parent, ‘columns’ => 5));

So I was thinking something similar might work for the file attachments, like this:

echo get_attachment_icons($attachment -> post_parent);

But I must be doing something wrong, and I’m not very familiar with PHP yet. Can anyone help me please?

By: Johannes

Johannes — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:54:51 +0000

You could shorten this code alot if you would introduce another loop iterating through your mime-types.

By: David Abbott

David Abbott — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:56:20 +0000

Tony, thanks for this. It’s great. To add the caption and description just add these two lines with the other AttachmentStrings

$sAttachmentString .= $file->post_content;
$sAttachmentString .= $file->post_excerpt;

By: Ethan

Ethan — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:26:21 +0000

Awesome tutorial! Thanks!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:50:18 +0000

Genius! Worked like a charm.
So helpful. Thanks a lot.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:23:52 +0000

Thanks, It's a jquery plugin call lazy loader. You can find it here

By: Erik Wordpress

Erik Wordpress — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:29:01 +0000

Thanks! on this site http://www.wordpressfunctions.com are some good wordpress functions for in the functions.php of your wordpress theme! functions in wordpress has never been easier.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:49:21 +0000

Thank you for providing your knowledge, this has helped me with displaying mime types correctly for post attachments (I was surprised how little clarity there was when searching for solutions on this).

I like the way the images (e.g. icons and avatars) on this page fade in slowly ‘on-demand’ as you scroll down the page. Any tips on how that is done? Does it help reduce data burdens on the page?

By: David McDonald

David McDonald — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:00:27 +0000

To show the file title, rather than the filename you can use:

$file_title = wp_get_attachment_link($file->ID);

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:30:36 +0000

Hi Tony,
I used your code and made a simple plugin to add the document images. It’s called Docicons and is available as a zip file at http://royhair.com/docicons-plugin/
The main difference from your code is that it adds the images inline with the attachment links in the post rather than listing them all at the end.
Hope this is useful.
roy

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:20:35 +0000

Wonderful stuff! This really helps, thank you. I’ve edited the code to remove the br tags so that the icons are right beside the text link which suits me better.
I think this would be even more fantastic if you made it a plugin
thanks again

By: Stephen James

Stephen James — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:22:11 +0000

This is a great idea. I am implementing a “list attachments” section for each page of a client’s website. My one thought is wouldn’t it be easier to use:

$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’,
‘numberposts’ => null,
‘post_status’ => null,
‘post_parent’ => $post->ID
);

$attachments = get_posts($args);

then a foreach loop with a switch statement:

switch ($attachment->post_mime_type) {
case ‘application/pdf’:
echo “”;
break;
}

and finally the_attachment_link function at the end.

I’d also recommend using the file title and not the file name.

By: Hixen

Hixen — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:24:37 +0000

Looking for the same thing, please share if you found a way.

By: Hixen

Hixen — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:11:23 +0000

Great work. This was really the thing i was looking for. One quick question. Now it shows the filename of the attachment, is it possible to show the title instead? filename to title

By: victor

victor — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:45:15 +0000

Thank you. Saved the day.

By: David McDonald

David McDonald — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:17:55 +0000

This is a fantastic piece of code. One thing, how would you go about displaying the attachment description or caption rather than displaying the attachment filename?

By: Joel Pádua

Joel Pádua — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:35:18 +0000

hi, forget last comment.

Is it possible to just show a defined name for the file instead the filename.extension?

thank you

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:52:44 +0000

You’d just need to figure out what the mime type is for .enl and you could add that to the function. Upload an .enl using the media attachment in WordPress admin and it should show you the mime type you need.

By: Joel Pádua

Joel Pádua — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:39:54 +0000

I need to make an if statment just to inserv some divs within the icon show up justi like: what condition should i use for knowing that an icon will show up and then print other stuff? thank you

By: Manas

Manas — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:35:57 +0000

We need to upload a different file format, namely .enl, is it possible to do it here on 2.9.2? Help would be appreciated greatly.

Thanks

By: Maggy

Maggy — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:02:18 +0000

Hi! Super File! But, i’ve got the attachment two times – one in the text an one at the position of . But ich only want a icon in front of the textlink to the file – does this works too?

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:53:39 +0000

Removed the extra line, Thanks!
I will check on the attachments hanging around after being removed.

By: Max Surguy

Max Surguy — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:15:57 +0000

Thank you very much for making this available. It does the job fine ! Just two things I’ve noticed : if you add atachments to the post then remove the attachments from the post, they will still appear on the post after you publish it, is there a way to get rid of that ? Also for the audio files you have an extra line of code, please delete $sAttachmentString .= “”;
for the code to work properly. Thanks

By: Joseph Hinson

Joseph Hinson — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:19:09 +0000

Nice post man. Putting this code in the functions.php file is a really good call, especially when you want to check several file types. Thanks for sharing!

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:32:31 +0000

I discovered that the shortcode works correctly if you “return” the string but the calling the function from the php does not work with “return” only if you “echo” the string. So note the new code above and call the function with < ?php get_attachment_icons($echo=true); ?> and the shortcode will use “return” by default.

By: VAHID

VAHID — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:29:57 +0000

Tony REALLY THANKS. I need it.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:37:41 +0000

Actually it does. This blog is running 2.9.2… Did you make sure and put the php code inside the wordpress loop?