Hi,

We see the plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. Can you confirm that you still support this plugin and will release security patches as needed?

Thank you!

I have many images in my laptop and i would like to upload all the images into my WordPress website.

I want each of the images to assigned to a new post as draft so I can manually edit them one by one and publish it. Key word is that each image needs to be assigned to a new post automatically. All conventional plugins only uploads multiple images to A POST but I want this spread for all post to have only one image

Is there any plugin or PHP script or any method to get the above done cleanly.

Hi,

I just discovered this plugin and its siblings…
I just installed it today and the first thing displayed is the message(s) stating that this plugin and its siblings will be discontinued and I should switch…
(1) It does not say what the new plugin is (its name) and no further information on the subject.
i.e no info, no pricing, nothing…
What does this mean?
(2) Is it worth installing if no one can tell if it will be around in the next few months?
(3) The Plugin is still asking for Donations?
(4) If you click on the buy options(addons) it goes to a site(s) that says discontinued.

It’s too confusing – Some straight answers (ASAP) would be really helpful if one is to consider investing in this product and the developer(s).

Is it possible to create user specific media libraries with this plugin?

When user A uploads files to his folder and logins they can see only their own images. Same with user B who uploads and then sees only their own images.

I’m using this plugin to import audio files but I realized that unlike wordpress media upload this plugin doesn’t update meta’s of the audio files.

That is after upload the
Song name
Album
Genre
Doesn’t show up in wordpress. How can I fix this? Please help

I have a custom plugin that I wrote. The plugin fires immediately after uploading files using the add_attachment action.

Will the plugin work with this media from ftp.

Hi, if I use an own custom taxonomy slug in /wp-admin/options-media.php, Media from FTP Add On Category does not show me this category. What can I do? Thanx and regards.

Hi
Does this plugin add files to wordpress library from remote server?
For example:
I install wordpress in domain.com and I upload files to cdn.domain.com
Does this plugin add files from cdn.domain .com to wordpress library?

Hi! I found a message in my log about contextual_help being deprecated.
I found a filter calling it in MediaFromFtpAdmin.php line 96.
Is this filter call responsible for the deprecated message?

Please see: https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/2019/10/09/introducing-handling-of-big-images-in-wordpress-5-3/

I searched ways to disable unwanted image sizes and found some scripts.

// disable generating new image sizes
function disable_image_sizes($sizes) {
    unset($sizes['1536x1536']); // disable 2x medium-large size
    unset($sizes['2048x2048']); // disable 2x large size
    return $sizes;
}
add_action('intermediate_image_sizes_advanced', 'disable_image_sizes');

// completely disable image size threshold
add_filter( 'big_image_size_threshold', '__return_false' );

The Media Uploader from WordPress takes care about this, but your plugin doesn’t.

May2020: frest install wp5.4.1, NO other plugins, deafult 2020 theme

i uploaded files and folders (mainly jpg’s) to the uploads folder.
used this plugin.
ALL the images have the “File size: Could not retrieve.”
And only some have images/thumbnails… i dont see any relation between the image file (jpg, size, date, etc) and the generated thumbs…
The ones without thumbs give “Oops, looks like the page is lost.” when i click on the link. the ones with thubs open a page with the image.

Any tips or tricks…
thanks, Jon

Update gets stuck at 0% but some media is successfully transferred to media library.
Wordpress 5.3.2 and Php 7.2 Tried deleting and reinstalling but issue still remains.
Any Help Greatly Appreciated.

Hi,
Why the files names are changing to something like ddjsn67889.pdf and how can I fix it.
Thanks.

I see files in Hebrew in the form of ????????????

Hello,

would it be possible to search next to the WordPress main directory, but on the same host?

So the following structure, for example

/wordpress/wp-admin/
/wordpress/wp-content/
/wordpress/wp-includes/
/media/

and I want to scan the /media folder?

This would be more suitable for us.

Thank You!

Hi Support,

We have a relatively huge file (70MB+ video) and we initiate Update Media, it gets stuck at 0% but when we check on Media Library, the file is successfully added there.
Our max upload file limit is set to 800MB.
During the 0% stuck and after a few minutes, there is an Error 500 in the Console Log.

How can we fix this?

Thanks!

Hi there!

First of all, thanks for the wonderful plugin.
Next, I am running into a problem which is probably not caused by Media from FTP, but by WordPress itself. However, I still hope you might be able to help.

Recently I have had to undertake a migration. When I run Media from FTP to synchronize the Media Library to the Media files on the server, I start off with a 2.7Gb site, and end up with a 15Gb site. This is due to the fact that WordPress multiplies the media files and produces the different sized versions. Because that was already done on the earlier site, I end up with multiplications of multiplications.

Is there a way to use Media from FTP to only sychronize the media files copied across by FTP? Without those files being once again recreated in lots of different sizes, causing the size of the site to explode?

Hope you can help. I have been trying to solve this for more than a month, and tried every conceivable workaround.

Kind regards, Marjoline

I pushed search button, but no file appeared.

Plugin, when registering, is stuck at 0%. Noticed this was an issue in the past, and tried recommended solutions to no avail. Please help. ??

I tried to use the plugin. As a result, I got the error “PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 150 seconds exceeded in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 4603, referer: / admin.php? page = mediafromftp-settings”.
After that I deleted and deactivated media-from-ftp. But what was my surprise that I can’t upload pictures in the usual way, plus the Sweep plugin stopped working.
How do I completely remove media-from-ftp? Or what needs to be done to fix what it broke?

• This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by wolfel.

I loaded a gallery with about 150 JPG with media-from-ftp and saw, that the resulting sequence in media library was “nearly” ok, but some pictures are switched. It should receive the date from Exif. I could find out, that in the post-Table the field post_date the seconds were all zero (so only hour and minute were correct). The result: all pictures taken within 1 minute were randomly mixed. The exif informations were complete. When I tried your plugin “extend media upload” it worked fine, so I will take this in the future. But it would be nice, if “media from ftp” could also write the complete date/time in the post_date field.

Thx for plugin! it save much time with media uploading.
But I have some specific problem. I need ipmort 10000+ images. And when I want to register them I have 500 timeout error. I played with Limit number of search files, Search method of files and also with max_execution_time on php.ini. Nothing can’t help solve my problem. And i decided to import my files with plugin. But I haven’t thumbnail images on server. Just full images. I want create it with this plugin. And when I import xml with _wp_attachment_metadata it display error no file. So I think that import function can’t create thumbnails. At first I should upload thumbnail. Am I right?

Not about this question. But about import. When import xml I have 0% progress. When I debug import function I see that data of $item with \n and \t. Code where I find it foreach ( $xml->channel->item as $item ). I solve it with replace.
And function unserialize not work with my exported data. I solve it with:

$fixed_data = preg_replace_callback ( '!s:(\d+):"(.*?)";!', function($match) {      
	return ($match[1] == strlen($match[2])) ? $match[0] : 's:' . strlen($match[2]) . ':"' . $match[2] . '";';
}, $value['postmeta_wp_attachment_metadata_value'] );

• This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by shuwi.

“Media from FTP” got a critical Error while uploading a file.
Besides, a log file cannot be written, even when checking the corresponding box in Settings. Do you have an idea why the import fails?

WordPress-Version 5.3.2
Plugin: Media from FTP (Version 11.04)
PHP-Version 7.3.14

Error details:
==============
Ein Fehler vom Typ E_ERROR wurde in der Zeile 1490 der Datei /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-content/plugins/media-from-ftp/inc/class-mediafromftp.php verursacht. Fehlermeldung: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getDocNamespaces() on bool in /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-content/plugins/media-from-ftp/inc/class-mediafromftp.php:1490
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-content/plugins/media-from-ftp/req/class-mediafromftpadmin.php(1700): MediaFromFtp->author_select(‘/usr/www/users/…’)
#1 /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(288): MediaFromFtpAdmin->medialibrary_import_page(”)
#2 /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(312): WP_Hook->apply_filters(”, Array)
#3 /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-includes/plugin.php(478): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
#4 /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-admin/admin.php(254): do_action(‘media-from-ftp_…’)
#5 {main}

Error details more detailed
==============
Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, ‘<‘ not found in /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-content/plugins/media-from-ftp/inc/class-mediafromftp.php on line 1487

Warning: simplexml_load_string(): PK in /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-content/plugins/media-from-ftp/inc/class-mediafromftp.php on line 1487

Warning: simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-content/plugins/media-from-ftp/inc/class-mediafromftp.php on line 1487

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getDocNamespaces() on bool in /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-content/plugins/media-from-ftp/inc/class-mediafromftp.php:1490 Stack trace: #0 /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-content/plugins/media-from-ftp/req/class-mediafromftpadmin.php(1700): MediaFromFtp->author_select(‘/usr/www/users/…’) #1 /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(288): MediaFromFtpAdmin->medialibrary_import_page(”) #2 /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(312): WP_Hook->apply_filters(”, Array) #3 /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-includes/plugin.php(478): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #4 /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-admin/admin.php(254): do_action(‘media-from-ftp_…’) #5 {main} thrown in /usr/www/users/mossdg/wp-content/plugins/media-from-ftp/inc/class-mediafromftp.php on line 1490

I can install the plugin without issue. Same with settings.

But when I click on Search & Register, I get a blank page. I checked the source of the page, and it truly is blank. No HTML at all.

I’ve removed and re-installed the plugin. I’m running WordPress 5.3.2 using PHP 7.1.14.

Any ideas?

Hi all,

Plugin was working fine then froze a 47%. I reset the VPS and started the plugin again and it’s stuck on 0%. Any suggestions. Php 7.3 and WP 5.3.2

I have used this tool a few times a year for a couple years now with great success. I just tried to use it and find it not working. It has been long enough since last use that I have no idea when problem occurred but I have some of the symptoms.
The plugin is looking for the upload directory in the wrong place:
/home1/gardenoaks/public_html/wp-content/uploads
The site is no longer in /home1
The path to the current uploads directory is located
/public_html/wp-content/uploads

What I am not seeing is where I can reset the path to where the site is now. Is it as simple as uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin? Or do I need to edit a config page? I am a bit skittish touching the config page. Also do not want to use that home1 directory at all.

Thanks for building a great tool!

Hi, the plugin worked good and helped me to upload over 1000 images. SOme of them were however duplicated. But the main issue appeared later, when suddenly it started to return 504 error , Gateway timeout. I thought, the issue is with the amount of images I want to search and register at once (it was 200, and it worked for some time), so I’ve reduced the amount of pages to search to 10 and even to 1, but this didn’t help. DO you have any suggestions on what might go wrong and how I can make it work again?

Thank you,
Eva

• This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by temereva.

Hi,

is it possible to run the media from ftp import automatically as cronjob?

Regards,

Tested with WP 5.3 and WP 5.2.4

Problem 1) Media was found and transferred to correct date directory and plugin says OK, but
a) Permalink to attachment page does not work (no image shown) + imported image get an entry in the media directory without preview image + could not edited with other plugins like “Regenerate Thumbnails” (gives an error)
b) Thumbnails are not generated

Problem 2) If the image file is located in the right directory (e.g. 2019/11) from start, plugin renames image (adding 2319290x) and go on with same problem like 1.

In Search&Register the plugin effectively recognises which image files have already been registered. So you can ftp new files to the directory and the plugin will show them as needing to be registered. Great!

However, sometimes a big image will be automatically rescaled when being registered, so a file “image.jpg” is rescaled to “image-scaled.jpg”, and registered in the Media Library with that file.

If you then invoke Search&Register again, the original file (“image.jpg”) is still shown as needing to be registered. (I haven’t tried to register it again in case this breaksthings.)

Could Search&Register recognise that the scaled version has been registered and so the unscaled version does not further processing?