I work in a smallish team of editors (5 people with a wide range of familiarity and skills) with a 5000+ page website which contains 50,000+ images.
When searching the media library to reuse images the word order of the search has a massive impact on what is found.
For example “Hornet 750” returns no assets, yet “750 Hornet” returns 35 assets many of which have “hornet-cb750” in the filename. While I appreciate that custom filters help pinpoint specific images, could the word-order constraint be relaxed?
I can make you a simple plugin that performs a word-order-independent search on the asset filenames… would that help? It would add a new button to your toolbar, where your editors can type in keywords in any order and it’ll search the images that way.
Example:
(Just as a workaround until the normal search bar can be improved)
The devs reviews this situation, and unfortunately it is not something that will be worked on in the short term. It would be a bigger change that they would only reconsider if there is enough demand for it.
So for now, sorry, no planned changes
I would still be happy to make that plugin for you if it would help. (And to be clear, just to mirror what we discussed in the private emails: This wouldn’t take much work on your part. I’d write the plugin for you. You’d just have to ask the editors / site owners if installing that plugin into your project would be OK, and if it would actually help the editors with their workflows). But I could take care of the rest of it for you.
Let me know if that would help. Otherwise, we will just have to wait and see if this accrues enough votes to warrant a future reconsideration. Sorry!
