Hi Paul,
That is very easy. Do you want the user to be able to search images from some custom page, if so, you can pass the “search_terms” parameter t search for media to the MPP_Media_Query.
https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-reference/core/mpp_media_query/#parameters

If you are not using it on custom page, Please let me know and I will assist you in passing it to our main queries if needed. The same applies for the order/orderby. Please take a look at the documentation.

Hi Paul,
I am sorry for the confusion. The parameters section explains the $args.

In your case, you don’t need to write custom loop unless you are going for ajax search filters.

We can modify the main query( I favor it to avoid extra database queries in this case) to account for search .

1. Yes, you will need to modify the template and put a search form
2. After that, we can put the following code

function mpp_custom_use_search_args( $args ) {

	//assuming your search form has input element 'search-terms'
	if ( isset( $_REQUEST['search-terms'] ) ) {
		$args['search-terms'] = $_REQUEST['search-terms'];
	}
	//Using 'search-terms' in args allows us to search usign MPP_media_Query
	//$args['search-terms']

	return $args;

}
add_filter( 'mpp_main_media_query_args', 'mpp_custom_use_search_args' );

This filters our main media query. So, It will list the filtered media.

Please do note that the approach to filter using the above filter will only work on standard MediaPress pages(which is the case for you).

Please give it a try and let me know.

Thank you
Brajesh