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is it possible to use add_meta_box or similar for the attachment edit page?

Need to add quite a lot of custom fields/functions.

function reference says no but seems odd that we can't or that there's no alternative for attachments.

best, Dan.

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not meta box, but you can add fields .. would that solution help you ?? – krembo99 Jan 24 '12 at 13:38
yeh i've used the add fields before but after adding a few its starts to get messy and want to make the options available stand out for the client to see. Will keep looking... – daniel Crabbe Jan 24 '12 at 13:57
can you specify or give example of what fields you need there ? maybe there is another solution ? – krembo99 Jan 24 '12 at 15:21
basically there's a group of functions/options for video attachments that i want to use via the attachments edit page. Choose thumbnail for video and display it, choose low, med & high versions of the video. Video preview and several others small functions. Its doable with the fields option but i wanted these options to stand out or be contained in a meta box. – daniel Crabbe Jan 24 '12 at 15:26
I understand . well, you can achieve that with custom form code and some css. I do not know of a function to add a proper meta-box to the upload screeen. also - did you think of the option of making a normal meta-box and have the film upload from there instead of altering so much the upload screen ? – krembo99 Jan 25 '12 at 12:39
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