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)

christophebe opened this issue 4 years ago · 2 comments

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

Answer 1 · 2021-04-22T14:01:21.000Z

Hello,

Is it not possible to get it ?
Thanks

Answer 2 · 2021-05-10T22:04:11.000Z

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!