Title: UI Question
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# UI Question

 *  Resolved [Nina15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nina15/)
 * (@nina15)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/)
 * I wonder if there is a filter to add/move the button to the media row. This is
   a consideration purely based on end user experience especially from FE.
 * As it is the button not only can get “lost” amongst other buttons added by other
   plugins, there is also already a built-in TinyMCE plugin that adds a button similar
   to that of z-url (see [https://www.tinymce.com/docs/demo/full-featured/](https://www.tinymce.com/docs/demo/full-featured/)).
 * In addition end-users often don’t realize whether they are in html or WYSWIYG
   mode.
 * In short, my question is whether it is possible to use a filter (something like
   add_filter(‘media_buttons_context’ …) without changing the integrity of the plugin
   which already works well.
 * Thank you in advance for sharing any suggestions you may have.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/z-url-preview/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/z-url-preview/)

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 *  Plugin Author [StuartMillington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartmillington/)
 * (@stuartmillington)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954585)
 * I have no idea 🙂
 * But, I’ll have a look. Probably over the weekend unless I find some time this
   week.
 *  Plugin Author [StuartMillington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartmillington/)
 * (@stuartmillington)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954631)
 * Had a quick look and it will be difficult to change the icon in the settings –
   besides which I can only draw squares.
 * One option, which probably would be for the weekend is to give an option of an
   icon or a text button with a label. The downside is that it would take up more
   space than an image icon.
 * For now, I’ve added a setting to select which row the icon appears on (1, 2 or
   3).
 *  Thread Starter [Nina15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nina15/)
 * (@nina15)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954641)
 * Thank you for actively looking into this. Not sure if we are talking about the
   same thing when you mention adding text button with a label – my original suggestion
   was to have a button with a label next to the Add Media button (above all the
   buttons) as some plugins do. This way the label can be descriptive and the button
   more prominent (so no need to change the icon in the first place). Is this possible
   at all?
 *  Plugin Author [StuartMillington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartmillington/)
 * (@stuartmillington)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954676)
 * I know what you mean, but it looks like a different mechanism – unless I’m missing
   something. I’m sure it is possible, it just may take some (spare) time to figure
   it out.
 *  Thread Starter [Nina15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nina15/)
 * (@nina15)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954679)
 * All good. I’ll close this thread myself as it started as a question and morphed
   into a feature request. Perhaps in due time. Thanks again for your engagement.
 *  Plugin Author [StuartMillington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartmillington/)
 * (@stuartmillington)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954685)
 * Thank you. I can only build what I think of, and think will be useful. Extra 
   pairs of eyes and ideas always help.
 * With a couple of days hindsight, adding to the Add Media function itself may 
   work better in the long run – a version of the “Insert from URL” concept.
 * The reason for that is that one thing that I wanted to do with this was to allow
   the choice from all the images in a page, e.g. on a page with 5 images the first
   one may not be the best choice for a preview/link.
 * If someone has set an og:image manually, hopefully they picked the good one. 
   But, many/most sites have not done this or their og plugin picks the first image
   automatically.
 * I can see a possible way of doing this within the add media system but not within
   the MCE plugin environment. I’m 80% sure this is possible but 10% sure how long
   it will take to find the time.
 * The idea is to “insert from URL”, grab the page, then on the pre-insert page:
   list the images available so one can be selected and also list the title, description,
   link, etc. so that they can be edited before being inserted into the post.
 * Sorry, I’m rambling and probably not making a lot of sense.
 *  Thread Starter [Nina15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nina15/)
 * (@nina15)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954687)
 * Great idea which has been thought through with a working model already available
   to adopt but requires integration and thus beyond average user’s reach. If you
   are curious and don’t mind AngularJS & Bootstrap just check out pastebin.com/
   6xZ9gnEy I’ve known about this for a while but don’t know how to put it to practice.
   Perhaps this sparks new ideas!
 *  Plugin Author [StuartMillington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartmillington/)
 * (@stuartmillington)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954743)
 * FYI v1.5.2 has a new “Media Bar” option for button placement. This places it 
   above TinyMCE. The function is the same, just a different button placement.
 *  Thread Starter [Nina15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nina15/)
 * (@nina15)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954744)
 * The media bar addition is a great enhancement – works very well. But I have a
   few questions. Would appreciate directing me in the right direction:
 * 1) Once enabled, the button in the media row appears on all editor instances,
   i.e. all editors created by other plugins. Obviously this is disruptive where
   a link preview is not needed or simply messes up a custom CPT integrity) How 
   can this be limited only to post editor in the admin area knowing that once needed
   on a particular instance the button could then be pragmatically added (this part
   is beyond the scope of this question).
 * 2) In case this is not achievable (or not readily available), can the button 
   in the media row be hidden by css and how?
 * Thanks -n
 *  Plugin Author [StuartMillington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartmillington/)
 * (@stuartmillington)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954745)
 * Do your other instances have a different post type?
 * If so, it can probably be limited to post type == post – or – post type == post
   or page
 * Would that work for you?
 * In terms of CSS, the button has an id of “insert-zurlpreview-media” so you may
   be able to display:none that until the post type limit is in place.
 *  Plugin Author [StuartMillington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartmillington/)
 * (@stuartmillington)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954746)
 * v1.5.3 has the filter in it.
 * The code is a bit cludgy as typenow isn’t set where I thought it would be, but
   it works here.
 *  Thread Starter [Nina15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nina15/)
 * (@nina15)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954747)
 * Yes, this does the trick. It removes the button on FE forms where not needed.
   Initially I though CPT had something to do with it but you are right, prior to
   V1.3 the button was globally applied to any form that uses wp-editor with media
   row enabled. The specifity you applied restricts it to Post or Page (on the backend
   only I believe) as it should. Thank you again for all the great work and being
   responsive to user feedback.
 *  Plugin Author [StuartMillington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartmillington/)
 * (@stuartmillington)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954748)
 * No idea what FE or CPT are, just glad it works for you 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Nina15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nina15/)
 * (@nina15)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954749)
 * Sorry just jargon! I meant frontend forms such as those from BuddyDev and BuddyForms
   and the various Custom Post Types I got dealing with book reviews etc.
 *  Plugin Author [StuartMillington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartmillington/)
 * (@stuartmillington)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ui-question/#post-6954750)
 * Ah, makes sense 🙂

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