Title: Missing category selection when adding image block
Last modified: February 9, 2022

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# Missing category selection when adding image block

 *  [w-sky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/w-sky/)
 * (@w-sky)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-category-selection-when-adding-image-block/)
 * Hello, when adding an image block to post or page content, the category selection
   buttons are missing on the media library screen.
 * It is looking like this: [https://imgur.com/Emx0sAZ](https://imgur.com/Emx0sAZ)
 * Instead of this, like when adding the featured image: [https://imgur.com/GEVdi6R](https://imgur.com/GEVdi6R)
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by [w-sky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/w-sky/).
      Reason: why cant I easily emebed images :(

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 *  Plugin Author [webbistro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webbistro/)
 * (@webbistro)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-category-selection-when-adding-image-block/#post-15378418)
 * [@w-sky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/w-sky/)
 * Hi,
 * This one looks like an incompatibility with a theme or maybe a plugin. Can you
   please check it by deactivating other plugins and changing the theme on a dev
   version of your website?
 * Best,
    — Nadia
 *  Thread Starter [w-sky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/w-sky/)
 * (@w-sky)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-category-selection-when-adding-image-block/#post-15403552)
 * Hello, I tried this: Deactivated all plugins except Enhanced Media Library and
   switched to Twenty Fourteen theme. But it is still the same as above: The media
   library controls are missing when adding an image to posts or pages using the
   image block.
 *  Thread Starter [w-sky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/w-sky/)
 * (@w-sky)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-category-selection-when-adding-image-block/#post-15418226)
 * Hello, is there any solution?
 * When adding an image to a post, this is likely the most important situation when
   we would need to use the Media Library category selection.
 *  Thread Starter [w-sky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/w-sky/)
 * (@w-sky)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-category-selection-when-adding-image-block/#post-15639174)
 * Hello, we are still having this problem and I think I tried any “generic” solutions
   like deactivating all plugins and then only activate Enhanced Media Library but
   without a change.
 * I also noticed that, of all standard blocks that can add something from the media
   library, there is one block, Gallery, where the category selection by Enhanced
   Media Library does work as it should. As it does when adding the featured image
   of the post.
 * But with all other blocks we don’t see the Enhanced Media Library fields (like
   in first screenshot in first comment). That is the picture, cover, audio, video
   and file blocks.
 * So it must have to do something with those WordPress/Gutenberg blocks? Maybe 
   they have a bug?
 *  Thread Starter [w-sky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/w-sky/)
 * (@w-sky)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-category-selection-when-adding-image-block/#post-15640477)
 * UPDATE
    I now have bought the Pro version of Enhanced Media Library when I noticed
   that it is not too expensive and only a one-time payment, hoping that it might
   not have this bug, but unfortunately it’s the same.
 * Then I noticed the option “Show media filters for ANY Media Popup” in Enhanced
   Media Library settings and tried that, and it helps. We can now use media filters
   when selecting an image with all WordPress blocks mentioned in previous post.
 * Is this the solution?

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