Title: Categorize attachments
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Categorize attachments

 *  [drala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drala/)
 * (@drala)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorize-attachments/)
 * Hello!
 * I´m using wordpress as CMS only for flex frontend portfolio
    (lots and lots of
   imagery). Since he site uses no text content at all, we decided to work only 
   with the attachments. The problem is: we need to be able to categorize the attachments
   hierachicaly (categories and sub categories and so on…). I develop in flex/actionscript3.
   I´m by no means a php dev. (at least not yet, still learning… :). My thought 
   was to put a dropdown with categories and categories childs on the “Edit attachment”
   page and be able to assign the attachment to the category. If this is the best
   way to go, is there any hint you could give me to acomplish that?
 * many thanks!!

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 *  [photocurio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocurio/)
 * (@photocurio)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorize-attachments/#post-1465916)
 * I’m having the same problem. as far as i can tell, attachments don’t have categories.
 *  [photocurio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocurio/)
 * (@photocurio)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorize-attachments/#post-1465923)
 * It seems like it should be possible to get the category of the parent. i wish
   i knew enough php syntax to get this right.
 *  [hacynth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hacynth/)
 * (@hacynth)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorize-attachments/#post-1465989)
 * Hey,
 * I recently wrote a quick plug-in for categorizing attachments. It’s very simple
   and easy to use.
 * [
    Cattachment on Github

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## Tags

 * [attachment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/attachment/)
 * [categorize](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categorize/)
 * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/)
 * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/)

 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [hacynth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hacynth/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorize-attachments/#post-1465989)
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