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Is there a way to fetch the URLs of ALL images in the media gallery?

I think this would be an easy way for a website to have a Pictures page that just pulls all of the images from the media gallery, granted it would only be necessary in certain scenarios.

I don't need instructions on how to create a Pictures page, just how to pull all of the image URLs. Thanks!

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  • Do you mean all images in the entire Media library (i.e., site-wide)?
    – ZaMoose
    Commented Mar 12, 2011 at 15:44

6 Answers 6

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$query_images_args = array(
    'post_type'      => 'attachment',
    'post_mime_type' => 'image',
    'post_status'    => 'inherit',
    'posts_per_page' => - 1,
);

$query_images = new WP_Query( $query_images_args );

$images = array();
foreach ( $query_images->posts as $image ) {
    $images[] = wp_get_attachment_url( $image->ID );
}

All the images url are now in $images;

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  • um.. looks like @somatic has beat me to it. Unlike his solution above, mine will only get images. Commented Mar 12, 2011 at 22:19
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    obviously our methods are similar... and azizur is right, adding the 'post_mime_type' to either query will narrow the types returned. one thing to consider: the guid often does contain the full url to the image, but it is not a reliable source. It is static, generated only once when the post is created, and is built on the current site url and the media folder structure. But that folder structure and the domain could change at some point, and then the guid is not the actual image URL anymore, just a record of what it was when it was created...
    – somatic
    Commented Mar 13, 2011 at 3:43
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    This answer is WRONG. It does not get images from Media Library. It gets images used inside posts. Unused images are not found!
    – Christian
    Commented Oct 10, 2011 at 12:38
  • @Christian - is it wrong? Or should I ask 'still' wrong? I realise I'm commenting almost 2 years later, but I tried this out on WP 3.6 and I'm receiving images that I've just added to the media library without adding them to any posts :/ Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 17:19
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    Just curious, what is the purpose of post_status? My code only works if I set post_status to inherit. However, the attachment I am looking for (a pdf file in my case) was not uploaded to any page. What is it inheriting from then? And why can't I just ignore the post_status?
    – A.Shoman
    Commented Apr 14, 2021 at 10:58
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$media_query = new WP_Query(
    array(
        'post_type' => 'attachment',
        'post_status' => 'inherit',
        'posts_per_page' => -1,
    )
);
$list = array();
foreach ($media_query->posts as $post) {
    $list[] = wp_get_attachment_url($post->ID);
}
// do something with $list here;

Query the db for all media library items (not just ones attached to posts), grab their url, dump them all in $list array.

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<?php
    $attachments = get_children( array('post_parent' => get_the_ID(), 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' =>'image') );
    foreach ( $attachments as $attachment_id => $attachment ) {
            echo wp_get_attachment_image( $attachment_id, 'medium' );
    }
?>

This pulls all attachments for a post/page. Attach more images to a post, and it will be listed

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ok y used this code for show ALL images in media Library!

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'attachment',
    'post_status' => 'published',
    'posts_per_page' =>25,
    'post_parent' => 210, // Post-> ID;
    'numberposts' => null,
);

$attachments = get_posts($args);

$post_count = count ($attachments);

if ($attachments) {
    foreach ($attachments as $attachment) {
    echo "<div class=\"post photo col3\">";
        $url = get_attachment_link($attachment->ID);// extraigo la _posturl del attachmnet      
        $img = wp_get_attachment_url($attachment->ID);
        $title = get_the_title($attachment->post_parent);//extraigo titulo
        echo '<a href="'.$url.'"><img title="'.$title.'" src="'.get_bloginfo('template_url').'/timthumb.php?src='.$img.'&w=350&h=500&zc=3"></a>';
        echo "</div>";
    }   
}

and if you know method for show pagination, please answer.

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This is just a shorter version of this answer using get_posts() and array_map().

$image_ids = get_posts(
    array(
        'post_type'      => 'attachment',
        'post_mime_type' => 'image',
        'post_status'    => 'inherit',
        'posts_per_page' => - 1,
        'fields'         => 'ids',
    ) );

$images = array_map( "wp_get_attachment_url", $image_ids );
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  • This is the most optimized way. You are just calling the ID field which is the only one required. Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 6:45
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It looks as though it hasn't been updated in a while, but the Media Library Gallery plugin might be a good example to start looking at.

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