This plugin is for Sanity Studio v3.
This is a forked version of Sanitys own Media Plugin (v4.0.0)
A Sanity Studio v3 plugin that extends media handling capabilities with custom enhancements, based on a fork of an original plugin by Sanity.io.
A convenient way to browse, manage and refine your Sanity assets.
Use it standalone as a browser, or optionally hook it up as a custom asset source and use it to power both image and file selection too.
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- Support for batch uploads with drag and drop support
- Edit text fields native to Sanity's asset documents, such as
title,description,altTextsandoriginalFilename - View asset metadata and a limited subset of EXIF data, if present
- Tag your assets individually or in bulk
- Manage tags directly within the plugin
- Get previews for audio and video files
- Easily select and delete multiple assets in bulk
- Refine your search with any combination of search facets such as filtering by tag name, asset usage, file size, orientation, type (and more)
- Use text search for a quick lookup by title, description and alt text
- Virtualized grid + tabular views for super speedy browsing, even with thousands of assets and tags
- Utilises Sanity's real time updates for live changes from other studio members
- Built with the same UI components Sanity uses under the hood
- Fully responsive and mobile friendly
- Define a list of available languages to enable multi-language alt texts for assets.
- See example of how to enable this feature here.
In your Sanity project folder:
npm install --save sanity-plugin-mediaor
yarn add sanity-plugin-mediaAdd it as a plugin in your sanity.config.ts (or .js) file:
import { media } from 'sanity-plugin-media'
export default defineConfig({
// ...
plugins: [
media(
languages: [
{ code: 'en-US', title: 'English', default: true },
{ code: 'sv-SE', title: 'Swedish' },
{ code: 'fr-FR', title: 'French' },
{ code: 'de-DE', title: 'German' }
],
)
]
})This will enable the Media plugin as both a standalone tool (accessible in your studio menu) and as an additional asset source for your image and file fields.
You can configure your studio to use this asset source either exclusively, or conditionally enable it based on the type of asset (image or file).
import { media, mediaAssetSource } from 'sanity-plugin-media'
export default defineConfig({
// ...
plugins: [media()],
form: {
// Don't use this plugin when selecting files only (but allow all other enabled asset sources)
file: {
assetSources: previousAssetSources => {
return previousAssetSources.filter(assetSource => assetSource !== mediaAssetSource)
}
}
}
})// sanity.config.ts
export default defineConfig({
//...
plugins: [
media({
// { code: string; title: string, default?: boolean }[] - the list of languages used for alt texts
// NOTE! Set only one language to default: true.
languages: [
{ code: 'en-US', title: 'English', default: true },
{ code: 'sv-SE', title: 'Swedish' },
{ code: 'fr-FR', title: 'French' },
{ code: 'de-DE', title: 'German' }
],
creditLine: {
enabled: true,
// boolean - enables an optional "Credit Line" field in the plugin.
// Used to store credits e.g. photographer, licence information
excludeSources: ['unsplash'],
// string | string[] - when used with 3rd party asset sources, you may
// wish to prevent users overwriting the creditLine based on the `source.name`
},
maximumUploadSize: 10000000
// number - maximum file size (in bytes) that can be uploaded through the plugin interface
})
],
})In the plugin directory run this command:
npm run link-watchThis will set up your plugin to build whenever the code changes, and publish the package to a local yalc repository.
Run the command in the studio project directory:
npx yalc add @electrolux-oss/sanity-plugin-media && npx yalc link @electrolux-oss/sanity-plugin-media && npm installYou should see something like this in the package.json file:
"@electrolux-oss/sanity-plugin-media": "file:.yalc/@electrolux-oss/sanity-plugin-media",
Which means you can safely use the local version of the plugin with this import:
import { media } from '@electrolux-oss/sanity-plugin-media'


