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Selecting phots from media gallery when admin updates a listing

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  • August 17, 2017 at 8:48 pm #391751

    Fabienne Wintle
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    Hi,

    I am trying to add more photos to some of our listings (logged in as admin) – I don’t want to upload more but wish to use those already in the media gallery.

    The “Attraction attachment” (called Attraction here as it is one of my listings CPT) only allows me to upload pics from my computer.

    How do I select pics already in my media gallery?

    thanks

    August 17, 2017 at 11:40 pm #391765

    Guust
    Moderator
    Post count: 29970

    Sorry, but that is not possible. Thanks

    August 18, 2017 at 12:26 am #391772

    Fabienne Wintle
    Expired Member
    Post count: 24

    Not even with a plugin?

    August 18, 2017 at 11:27 am #391814

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    Hi Fabienne,

    There are many reasons we do it like this, but it all boils down to scaling, Only the first image of a GD listing is stored in the WP media gallery, all other are stored in our own tables, allowing images to be linked from the media gallery adds many meta data rows to the databse for each image, this is not a problem if you have only a few listings but if you have 1,000,000 listings with 10 images each which all add 5 meta rows, that is 50,000,000 db rows that are not needed if we do it our way.

    Are you trying to add one image to all listings or something?

    Stiofan

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