Bill Erickson

NOTE: This uses the old media gallery interface, and I have no plans to change this.
I use the WordPress Gallery a lot on websites I build. It’s a wonderful tool, but it’s hard to find. Instead of telling users “Click the first icon next to Upload/Insert, then click the gallery tab”, I created this simple plugin to display all the attached images in a metabox.
It’s also customizable for developers (see documentation).
<a href="https://github.com/billerickson/Gallery-Metabox/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a>
No support will be provided by the developer

Gallery Metabox

After updating to WP v4.9 this plugin gave me a PHP error until I added an image and then deleted it. Something about an array expected. Needs attention.


Throws a PHP error

Displays all the post's attached images on the Edit screen.

Willy Bahuaud

This plugin add a metabox which allox to upload and link multiple images to one post. 
Pictures are linked by the way of meta_value (and attachments ID). They can be reordered using drag and drop.
Number of allowed pictures and concerned post types can be overited using hooks.
Plugin includes many functions to retrieve linked pictures. 
For more information on using the plugin, refer to the section <a href="/extend/plugins/multi-image-metabox/other_notes/" rel="nofollow ugc">“Other Notes”</a>.
<h3>Set concerned post types</h3>
Paste this into your theme’s functions.php file :
 
<h3>Set allowed number of picts</h3>
Paste this into your theme’s functions.php file : 
 ‘_image1’, 
 ‘image2’ => ‘_image2’, 
 ); 
 return $picts; 
 } 
 ?>
<h4>Set allowed number of picts, depending to the post_type</h4>
Paste this into your theme’s functions.php file : 
 add_filter(‘list_images’,’my_list_images’,10,2); 
 function my_list_images($list_images, $cpt){ 
 global $typenow; 
 if($typenow == “my_custom_post_type” || $cpt == “my_custom_post_type”) 
 $picts = array( 
 ‘image1’ => ‘_image1’, 
 ‘image2’ => ‘_image2’, 
 ‘image3’ => ‘_image3’, 
 ); 
 else 
 $picts = array( 
 ‘image1’ => ‘_image1’, 
 ‘image2’ => ‘_image2’, 
 ‘image3’ => ‘_image3’, 
 ‘image4’ => ‘_image4’, 
 ‘image5’ => ‘_image5’, 
 ‘image6’ => ‘_image6’, 
 ‘image7’ => ‘_image7’, 
 ‘image8’ => ‘_image8’, 
 ); 
 return $picts; 
 }
<h3>get_images_ids()</h3>
This function have to be used into a template file, or any function. 
It return an array of the linked attachments’s ID.
It take two arguments whose are :
<ol>
<li>include the thumbnail ? (boolean) if true include the thumbnail in the returned datas</li>
<li>
ID (integer) for targeting images linked to a specific post
 45, 
 ‘image1’ => 5, 
 ‘image2’ => 6, 
 ‘image3’ => 12, 
 ‘image6’ => 20, 
 ‘image7’ => 15 
);
//Empty pictures ar not returned
?>
<h3>get_images_src()</h3>
This function have to be used into a template file, or any function. 
It return an array of URIs and dimension for the linked attachments’s, by order.
</li>
</ol>
It take three agruments whose are :
<ol>
<li>size (string) the size to return</li>
<li>include the thumbnail ? (boolean) if true include the thumbnail in the returned datas</li>
<li>
ID (integer) for targeting images linked to a specific post
 array( 
 [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_medium_pict.jpg’, 
 [1] => 340, 
 [2] => 200, 
 [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it… 
 ), 
 ‘image2’ => array( 
 [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_medium_second_pict.jpg’, 
 [1] => 340, 
 [2] => 200, 
 [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it… 
 ) 
);
?>
<h3>get_multi_images_src()</h3>
Same as get_image_src(), but return two sizes for all the pictures.
</li>
</ol>
It take for agruments whose are :
<ol>
<li>size (string) the size to return</li>
<li>size2 (string) another size to return</li>
<li>include the thumbnail ? (boolean) if true include the thumbnail in the returned datas</li>
<li>
ID (integer) for targeting images linked to a specific post
 array( 
 [0] => array( 
 [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_medium_pict.jpg’, 
 [1] => 340, 
 [2] => 200, 
 [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it… 
 ), 
 [1] => array( 
 [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_full_pict.jpg’, 
 [1] => 1020, 
 [2] => 600, 
 [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it… 
 ), 
 ), 
 ‘image2’ => array( 
 [0] => array( 
 [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_medium_second_pict.jpg’, 
 [1] => 340, 
 [2] => 200, 
 [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it… 
 ), 
 [1] => array( 
 [0] => ‘http://url_of_the_second_full_pict.jpg’, 
 [1] => 1020, 
 [2] => 600, 
 [3] => false //I’ve no idea what is it… 
 ) 
 ) 
); 
//Empty pictures ar not returned
?></li>
</ol>

Multi Image Metabox

Add a multi-image metabox to your posts, pages and custom post types

Gallery Metabox vs Multi Image Metabox