{"id":1247524,"date":"2017-03-01T02:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T10:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/using-wp-media-uploaderlibary-instead-of-plain-upload-function\/"},"modified":"2017-03-01T19:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T03:36:59","slug":"using-wp-media-uploaderlibary-instead-of-plain-upload-function","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/using-wp-media-uploaderlibary-instead-of-plain-upload-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Using WP Media Uploader\/Libary instead of plain upload function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi!<\/p>\n<p>I use Community Events to provide Editors\/Superusers the possibility to add events at the front end. The access to the Community Events forms is user restricted with the Ultimate Members plug in. To avoid uploading the same picture again and again, I would prefer very much to access the WP Media Uploader\/Libary. Beside this I use the WP Media Folder Plugin and could organize the files in folders at upload that way. I checked your code but I&#8217;m stuck at which point and how do you transfer the file to the server since I cant find a action in the form. Help would be very much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1247524","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Using WP Media Uploader\/Libary instead of plain upload function -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/using-wp-media-uploaderlibary-instead-of-plain-upload-function\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Using WP Media Uploader\/Libary instead of plain upload function -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi! 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