how to get the list of images that are not yet used in a post (featured image)

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how to get the list of images that are not yet used in a post (featured image) #485

Closed christophebe closed 3 years ago

christophebe commented 3 years ago

Hello,

I would like to fetch the list of images that are not yet used as featured images. Is it possible to do this kind of queries ?

Thanks Christophe

christophebe commented 3 years ago

Hello,

Is it not possible to get it ? Thanks

kadamwhite commented 3 years ago

Hey @christophebe ! There's no way to do that query directly via the API, you'd need to write some custom PHP query logic on your site. You could then expose that as a filter parameter on the media endpoints, but the ability to search through posts and identify which images haven't been featured yet is a pretty expensive query that can't be accomplished without custom code on the WP end.

Hope this helps!