Retiring media-new.php

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media-new.php is an unmaintained and ugly interface. See it in action in these visual records. The media library’s grid view now has a much better interface. Tapping Add New while in grid view reveals an upload interface.

: Tapping Add new reveals the uploader.

: The uploader on an iPhone 6+

Media library’s list view does not offer the upload interface. Seems like it should. Instead, it links to media-new.php.

: List view links to media-new.php instead of revealing grid view’s inline uploader interface.

: List view on an iPhone 6+

The only thing media-new.php offers that the media library does not is the fallback “browser uploader”. The only time I’ve ever used this was to work around the video upload bug mentioned here. That bug was short-lived. It is no longer a problem.

Suggestions:

Offer grid view’s uploader interface in list/bulk view as well.
Remove media-new.php.
Remove the Media > Add New submenu.
Celebrate.

Does anyone have media-new.php flows not handled by the media library and the grid view uploader? Does anyone use the fallback browser uploader? I could see low bandwidth users not wanting to visit grid view to upload, preferring the less bandwidth intensive media-new.php. However, adding the uploader to the lighter list view screen might be a sufficient solution to that.

Plugins that alter media-new.php:

Media Library Assistant

: media-new.php with Media Library assistant active, Macnchrome

: media-new.php, MLA, iPhone 6+

: media-new.php, MLA, iPhone 6+, scrolled down

David Lingren 7:27 pm on August 20, 2015

In addition to the browser uploader, media-new.php offers a number of hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. that allow pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party developers a way to extend its functions.

My plugin, Media Library Assistant (https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-library-assistant/), adds a form below the drag-and-drop area on the Media/Upload New Media screen. The form allows users to set defaults for standard fields, taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. terms and custom fields that are applied to items as they are uploaded. It uses the ‘upload_post_params’ and ‘post-upload-ui’ hooks provided in media-new.php.

I have not developed an alternative approach to this feature that works in the grid view or Media Manager Modal Window (MMMW). I have found it very difficult to extend grid view and MMMW, and I am concerned that a media-new.php replacement will have similar issues.

I hope you will think through and meet the needs of plugin and theme developers in any media-new.php replacement effort. Thank you for your consideration.
- Ryan Boren 4:59 pm on August 21, 2015
  
  Thanks. I updated the post with screenshots showing media-new.php + MLA.
  - David Lingren 7:28 pm on August 26, 2015
    
    Thank you for taking the time to install MLA, poke around and post the screen shots. It’s clear that the HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites./CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. markup for the form needs work on narrow devices. I improved the Media/Assistant markup for WP 4.3 but haven’t yet worked on this screen.
    
    I am open to any approach to retiring media-new.php that will preserve the current MLA features. Let me know how I can help!
FolioVision 11:51 am on June 21, 2016

Did this ever get sorted Ryan? We’d be interested in helping clean up legacy media upload.

Alec
- Ryan Boren 12:00 pm on June 21, 2016
  
  Not yet. There’s some discussion here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32398

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