Community Media

When members upload images inside Jetonomy - in post bodies, reply bodies, or space cover images - those files land in the standard WordPress media library. On an active community this can flood the site owner’s own media with thousands of member uploads.

Jetonomy 1.5.0 introduces Community Media: a dedicated admin view that tags member uploads and keeps them separate from the site owner’s media, without moving any files or breaking third-party storage or image optimization plugins.

Where to Find Community Media

Community Media is available to site administrators and users with the jetonomy_manage_settings capability at:

WordPress admin → Jetonomy → Community Media

What It Shows

The Community Media page lists every upload made by community members through Jetonomy, paginated in a 24-item grid (newest first by default). You can filter the list by:

• Space - see all uploads made inside a specific space
• Member - type a username or email to see uploads from one person
• Sort order - switch between most recent and oldest first

Each item in the grid is a standard WordPress attachment. Click View / edit on a card to open that attachment’s own edit screen in wp-admin - the same screen you would reach by opening any WordPress attachment.

Deleting an Upload

The Community Media screen itself has no delete button - it is a browsing and cleanup view, not a moderation queue. To remove a specific upload, click View / edit on its card, then use Delete Permanently on the attachment’s own edit screen. That deletes the underlying file, exactly as deleting any other WordPress attachment would.

If the upload is attached to a post or reply that was reported by a member, act on the content itself at Jetonomy → Moderation rather than on the file here - deleting the attachment does not remove the post or reply it is embedded in.

Storage and the Abandoned-Upload Sweep

Community Media does not total disk usage anywhere on the page - for that, use your host’s own disk tools or the main Media → Library screen, which is not filtered by uploader.

What Jetonomy does manage automatically is uploads nobody ever used: a member starts writing a reply, attaches an image, then abandons the draft without posting. That file has nowhere else to go, so Jetonomy sweeps it up with a daily background job:

• Only uploads Jetonomy itself created through the composer are eligible - never a file another plugin or an import brought in, and never anything Jetonomy merely recognized as a member’s.
• A candidate has to be at least a day old, and unreferenced anywhere Jetonomy knows to look: no post or reply body, no member avatar, no space cover image or icon.
• The first sweep on your site deletes nothing. It only records what it would have removed, so upgrading into this feature never triggers a surprise bulk delete of files that had been quietly accumulating. The very next scheduled run acts on what it finds.

There is no setting or button for this - it runs on its own schedule. Developers can hook jetonomy_media_cleanup_reported (fires after that first, report-only pass) or jetonomy_media_cleanup_ran (fires after a pass that actually deletes) to log or alert on what the sweep found.

Effect on the Main Media Library

By default, Jetonomy hides community uploads from Media → Library and from the media modal that appears when editing posts or pages. This keeps the site owner’s own images, logos, and assets uncluttered.

A Community uploads dropdown on the media list toolbar lets you reveal member uploads on demand:

• Hide community uploads (default) - community uploads are excluded from the list and the modal
• Show community uploads - all uploads are visible

The choice in the list view is applied per-request via a URL parameter. The choice in the grid view (the media modal) is persisted in a browser cookie until changed.

Note: Hiding community uploads in wp-admin does not affect front-end delivery. Images uploaded by members are always served at their original URLs regardless of this setting.

What’s Next?

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