Media Library - Carleton CMS Help Centre

The Media Library is the place on your website where your uploaded documents are stored, such as files and images.

Step-by-Step

Managing the Media Library

Access the Media Library by hovering over Media in the side menu and clicking on Library.
From this screen, you can add new media and edit or delete existing media.
To add new media, click the Add New button next to the Media Library title.
1. From there, you can drag and drop your file or browse your device using the Select Files button.
To edit media, click on the media you’d like to edit. You can also use the search bar to locate media, or filter media using the dropdown menu under All media items.
1. From here, you can add or edit alternative text, the title, caption, and description. You can also find a link to the document in the Copy Link field.
To delete media, you can click Delete Permanently at the bottom of the edit media page
To delete multiple documents at once, click Bulk Select on the Media Library menu.
1. Then, choose the media you would like to delete and click the Delete Permanently button in the Media Library menu.

Adding Media Library content to your page

Edit the content to which you would like to add your media.
Click the Add Media button above the editor.
You can then choose any media you’ve uploaded to the Media Library by clicking on it.
In the right hand menu that appears once you have chosen a piece of media, you can also edit the alt text, title, caption, and description as well as edit images and delete the content permanently.
To add your media, click Insert Element

Transcript

Hello and welcome to Module 2 of our Advanced CMS Training. This video will discuss the Media Library. This library is the place on your website where any content you have uploaded is stored. In this video, we will cover how to manage content using the media library as well as how to pull content from the media library onto your page.

To navigate to the media library, just hover over Media in the side menu and click Library.

You can add new media by clicking this Add New button. From here, you can drag and drop your file or click Select Files and browse your device. Once you have located your file, click Open and it will appear in the media library below.

You can also edit media from the media library. To do so, click on the media you would like to edit. You can add or edit the title, a caption, and a description. You can also find a link to your media in the Copy Link field. If it’s an image, you can also add alternative text here.

To delete any piece of media, you can click Delete Permanently at the bottom of the Edit Media page.

If you want to delete multiple media at once, click Bulk Select on the Media Library menu, and choose the media you want to delete. Click Delete Permanently.

To add media library content to your page, click the Add Media button. You can insert any piece of media you’ve uploaded to the media library by clicking on it. You can also edit the media from this screen.

Click insert into page to add your media.

Try It Out!

To test your Media Library knowledge, here are a couple tasks you can complete:

Upload an image to the media library
Add a title, caption, description, and alt text.
Add this image to your test page using the Media Library tab under Add Media
Delete the image from the media library. You will notice that upon previewing your page, the media you had inserted is now blank.

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