How to display post attachments in post edit screen in WordPress

Question

I have created a custom post type for uploading photo albums. Users can come to the site and create albums and upload multiple photos (max. 10) from the same page - one of these images are being assigned as Feature Image.

I want all albums and photos uploaded by users against every post to be moderated by site admin. When I go to post edit page I can see title, description, category and featured image all coming up fine. How I can display other attachments (except the featured image) on edit screen?

Albums are by default being uploaded with "Pending" status, so unless I "publish", it won't be visible. But I want extend the functionality it a bit more. Like I will publish the album but want to moderate the images from the same location.

I don't want to use any ready made plugin.

Can meta_box help? I am still a newbie in WordPress development.

Answer 1

For Create New functionality in WordPress, I suggest you that you can create custom plugin. After you can follow the steps,

• For Create the custom database or update the query on post/page table: creating database tables with plugins

• Create Custom Post Type Or Add the post in default Post Type: How to Add Categories to a Custom Post Type in WordPress

• Create custom meta box in custom/default post Type: How to Create Custom WordPress Write/Meta Boxes

Here, sharing with you some guidelines links as per functionality.

Hope, you can get the idea.