Title: Shared media libraries
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Shared media libraries

 *  [Anatoli Stancioff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manate/)
 * (@manate)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shared-media-libraries/)
 * Hello and thank you very much for this AWESOME plugin!!
 * It’s really the perfect traduction plugin, and it’s working perfectly!
 * The only problem (and i’m sorry to say it again, so many people seemed to ask
   the question…) is the media library share between different languages.
 * In fact, we have choice to disable media translation sow that we could use in
   a post a media from a different language (and that’s a really good thing to be
   able to do it!)
    but then, it becomes impossible to translate a media…
 * I know i’m asking a lot but it’s the only thing missing in this beautiful plugin:
   
   Could it be possible to add a functionality to **let the media translation enable
   but add a button in media picker to use a media from a different language than
   the post language** ?
 * It would be really awesome 😉
 * Thank’s again for this plugin and for reading me!
 * Best,
 * Anatole
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shared-media-libraries/#post-5818643)
 * Hi!
 * Sorry I don’t understand your use case.
 *  Thread Starter [Anatoli Stancioff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manate/)
 * (@manate)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shared-media-libraries/#post-5818786)
 * Sorry to answer so late but I am terribly buzzy…
 * Thank you for your answer Chubby,
 * In fact, instead of choosing if I want to enable or disable media translation,
   I would like to keep media translation enable but to be able to access to other
   languages medias.
 * e.g.:
    I create a french post with french medias ; then I create the translated
   english post with the translated english medias. I create a second french post
   with french medias ; I create the translated english post using some french medias(
   because I’m lazy & don’t need to translate Every media I upload).
 * Thank’s for reading me!
 * Best,
 * Anatole
 *  [Ditto Dito](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ditto-dito/)
 * (@ditto-dito)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shared-media-libraries/#post-5818787)
 * Chouby, a couple of ideas to get closer to something that is requested oftentimes:
 * 1/ Write a routine that duplicates all your media across all languages (that 
   are not yet translated).
 * 2/ Write a hook that automagically creates all languages when you upload a new
   image.
 * That is far from perfect, but at least all images should be available for ordinary
   image-in-post cases.
 * We keep image-in-custom-field-in-post for later. 😉
 *  [webby1973](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webby1973/)
 * (@webby1973)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shared-media-libraries/#post-5818791)
 * I agree with Anatole, it would be very useful to choose case by case if using
   a translated media or not when writing a post/page.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shared-media-libraries/#post-5818791)
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