Let Users delete their media

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Problem: I would like to allow Users to delete Media Library items using CRED.

Solution: Right now CRED does not integrate with the Media Library to allow you to delete or edit items like this. You can remove references to media items in posts, but not delete the file from the Media Library. We're working on some improvements to CRED that will implement the standard WordPress Media Library editor for file uplods, but it's not quite ready yet. Currently the only way to edit or delete Media items is to use the Media Library in wp-admin.

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Last updated by Christian Cox 6 years, 9 months ago.

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March 29, 2018 at 12:29 pm #629612

amandaD

I have a front-end content submission CRED form that has "allow media upload" enabled. Users are successfully able to upload media. However, they can't delete or edit that media?

How do I allow them to delete their images?

March 29, 2018 at 3:31 pm #629726

Christian Cox

Hi, right now CRED does not integrate with the Media Library to allow you to delete or edit items like this. You can remove references to media items in posts, but not delete the file from the Media Library. We're working on some improvements to CRED that will implement the standard WordPress Media Library editor for file uplods, but it's not quite ready yet. Currently the only way to edit or delete Media items is to use the Media Library in wp-admin.

March 30, 2018 at 9:23 am #630005

amandaD

Deleting references will be enough for the moment - how does the user do that?

April 1, 2018 at 3:30 pm #630357

Christian Cox

I mean the User can delete the item from the post content or WYSIWYG field if it was placed in the content of that field. For example if an image HTML tag was inserted that includes the media item's URL as its src attribute, that image tag can be removed. This does not disassociate the Media Library item from the post in the wp-admin.