Media editor components for WordPress.

Installation

npm install @wordpress/media-editor --save

This package assumes that your code will run in an ES2015+ environment. If you’re using an environment that has limited or no support for such language features and APIs, you should include the polyfill shipped in @wordpress/babel-preset-default in your code.

Usage

import {
    MediaEditorProvider,
    MediaPreview,
    MediaForm,
    type Field,
} from '@wordpress/media-editor';
import { useSelect, useDispatch } from '@wordpress/data';
import { store as coreStore } from '@wordpress/core-data';

function MyMediaEditor( { mediaId } ) {
    const media = useSelect(
        ( select ) =>
            select( coreStore ).getEditedEntityRecord(
                'postType',
                'attachment',
                mediaId
            ),
        [ mediaId ]
    );

    const { editEntityRecord } = useDispatch( coreStore );

    const handleChange = ( updates ) => {
        editEntityRecord( 'postType', 'attachment', mediaId, updates );
    };

    // Define fields using the Field type from @wordpress/dataviews
    const fields: Field[] = [
        { id: 'title', label: 'Title', type: 'text' },
        { id: 'alt_text', label: 'Alt Text', type: 'text' },
        { id: 'caption', label: 'Caption', type: 'textarea' },
        { id: 'description', label: 'Description', type: 'textarea' },
    ];

    return (
        <MediaEditorProvider
            value={ media }
            onChange={ handleChange }
            settings={ { fields } }
        >
            <div style={ { display: 'flex', gap: '24px' } }>
                <div style={ { flex: 1 } }>
                    <MediaPreview />
                </div>
                <div style={ { width: '360px' } }>
                    <MediaForm />
                </div>
            </div>
        </MediaEditorProvider>
    );
}

API

<MediaEditorProvider>

Context provider that supplies media data and actions to child components.

Props:

• value: (optional) Media object from the WordPress REST API
• onChange: (optional) Callback when media is updated (updates: Partial<Media>) => void. If not provided, the MediaEditor can be used in a read-only mode, which is useful for preview-only scenarios where editing is not needed.
• settings: (optional) Configuration object
  • settings.fields: Array of field definitions (uses Field type from @wordpress/dataviews)
• children: Child components

<MediaPreview>

Displays a preview of the media file. Automatically detects and renders images, videos, audio, or generic files based on MIME type.

Props:

Accepts any props that will be spread onto the preview container element (useful for click handlers, accessibility attributes, etc.)

<MediaForm>

Form for editing media metadata using DataForm from @wordpress/dataviews.

Props:

• form: Optional form configuration (uses Form type from @wordpress/dataviews)
• header: Optional header content to display above the form

TypeScript

This package is written in TypeScript and exports all relevant types:

import type {
    Media,
    MediaEditorProviderProps,
    MediaPreviewProps,
    MediaFormProps,
    Field,
    Form,
} from '@wordpress/media-editor';

Contributing to this package

This is an individual package that’s part of the Gutenberg project. The project is organized as a monorepo. It’s made up of multiple self-contained software packages, each with a specific purpose. The packages in this monorepo are published to npm and used by WordPress as well as other software projects.

To find out more about contributing to this package or Gutenberg as a whole, please read the project’s main contributor guide.