MB Block Not Searching Attachments?

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November 22, 2023 at 5:06 AM #43875
Andrew Tegenkamp
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I have a field defined as this:
```
		'fields' => [
			[
				'id'   => 'vpp_post',
				'type' => 'post',
				'name' => 'Post or Page?',
				'post_type' => ['post','page','attachment'],
			],
		],
```
It works well to search posts and pages, but not attachments/media. My Media Library may be considered large, as it is over 1500 items and growing if that matters. Is there any way to debug this or did I get something wrong in post_type? I got attachment from the Online Generator at https://metabox.io/online-generator/ and selecting "Post" and changing the Post types to media. The docs at https://docs.metabox.io/fields/post/#enabledisable-ajax-requests seem to indicate that can be an array and that works great for posts and pages but I'm really hopeful to have all 3 for this block.

Thanks.

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November 22, 2023 at 10:01 PM #43883

Peter
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Hello Andrew,

I also see that issue on my site and I've escalated this issue to the development team to fix it in the next update of the Meta Box plugin.

Thank you.

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November 25, 2023 at 1:24 AM #43914
Andrew Tegenkamp
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Thanks. I see it does work when I add query_args and post_status of inherit since Media files use Inherit instead of Publish by default. This seems to get me what I want as it looks like the WP_Query loop knows to only get the most recent Post/Page and not all the inherited revisions.
```
'fields' => [
	[
		'id'   => 'vpp_post',
		'type' => 'post',
		'name' => 'Post or Page?',
		'post_type' => ['post','page','attachment'],
		'field_type'  => 'select_advanced',
		'query_args'  => [
			'post_status'    => ['publish','inherit'],
			'posts_per_page' => - 1,
		],
	],
],
```
I'm not sure if updating the code to work without the query_args is the right answer, or updating the docs, but I'll let you and the devs work that out 🙂

Thanks again for taking a look!
Andrew

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November 26, 2023 at 9:20 AM #43930

Peter
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Hello,

Thanks for sharing the information.

Following the WordPress documentation, the attachment post (media) could be considered a child of a post so you can use the post_status inherit or any to get the attachment posts.
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_children/
https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/post-status/

I will inform the development team to update the doc for this case.

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