Already on my list and in development:

1. Move the media tag storage to the WordPress Taxonomy system and stop using postmeta table for lookup. This will provide tons of new flexibility for queries.
2. Add a Media Tags admin screen. This is already added. There will be a new panel under Media menu section. The screen looks and functions just like the WordPress Tags/Categories management screen.
3. Shortcodes for drop into content easy of use. This is working as of this week.
4. Add many more template type codes that all queries across all Posts/Pages for media tags.
5. Standardize on the template function parameters to be more like the WordPress get_posts parameters. Allowing parameters like numberposts, orderby, offset, etc. This will allow you to select media tag items and use a simple paging type system. More on that later.
6. Add functionality to return Posts instead of the attachments. In the current media-tags version only the post attachment(s) are returned. Many need the ability to query display posts which have attachments matching some media-tag slug.
7. Media Tag cloud template function and widget for your page/sidebar use.
8. Search functionality from within Media section. A way to search from within Media or the Media popup to filter items. This may not make it into the 2.0 release.
9. Query on attachment sizes. This would be neat to have. Just not sure if it would be something everyone needs.
10. (open)

Also in a few weeks I’ll be hunting some beta testers for the 2.0 version of the plugin. I would not suggest running this on a production system. Thinking more if you are made happy using the current Media Tags plugin and have access to a dev instance of your site f might help to have some of you test the new features.

Thanks for your work. I just wanted to suggest the implementation of a shortcode to ease the display of related media on the posts. Regards!

thanks – you are absolutely right – i too get the same results! (i am not a php coder, but i do know sql, hence my foray into what was clearly not optimal).

can’t wait for the new version, you ROCK.

Ami Thanks for the code. I’m sure others who read these comments will find them usefull. While your code does in fact work I do not advocate anyone hand-coding SQL queries into their templates.

Wound not a better solution be to use the build-in ‘get_posts’ WP function?

$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’,
‘numberposts’ => -1,
‘meta_key’ => ‘post_media_tags’,
‘meta_value’ => ‘page-full’
);
$tagimages = get_posts($args);

I just tried this on a client site using a ton of media-tagged images and came up with the same results when compared to your direct SQL.

One other not about using the post meta fields. This is going away in the next version of the Media Tags plugin I’m working on. I’ve converted all the post meta fields to using the WordPress Taxonomy system just like Categories and Tags. In that case it would be easier to just query the terms for all the posts/pages for a given term. Then spin the array.

Made some great progress on the plugin this afternoon. At least over 2 major hurdles. Hope to have version 2.0 out this month early. Actually my birthday is July 13 so this will probably be on that day.

$tagimages = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT wposts.*
FROM $wpdb->posts wposts, $wpdb->postmeta wpostmeta
WHERE wposts.ID = wpostmeta.post_id
AND wpostmeta.meta_key = ‘post_media_tags’
AND wpostmeta.meta_value = ‘escort cards’
ORDER BY wposts.post_date DESC”);
if ($tagimages) :
foreach ($tagimages as $post) :
$imgtag = $post->guid;
$postpid = $post->post_parent;
?>
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