How to Update (Re-upload) Media Files

  • This may be way too basic, but I cannot seem to find the way to update an uploaded media file.

    I simply need to re-upload on top of an already existing media file.

    How do you do that?

    Thanks…

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  • If you don’t have FTP access, just remove the current media file and re-upload it.

    if you don’t remove the file first, you will get ‘myfile1.jpg’ instead of ‘myfile.jpg’, WordPress does not overwrite files.

    Removing the media item won’t remove any links to it in the page content, so once you re-upload the file, the links will work fine.

    Thread Starter frank tredici

    (@frank13)

    Thanks @EricHolmes

    I do have FTP access, but my users do not. I am trying to make it so they don’t have to delete first, then upload. There is the odd chance someone “out there’ tries to access the media file between delete time and re-upload time and gets a 404.

    I want to also make this easy for the user.

    Further, the file path goes ../wp-content/uploads/YYYY/MM/media-file-name.pdf (for example)

    Once they re-upload the link does change becuase it was originally ../2012/05/.. and today it is ../2012/08/..

    Does WordPres not provide the ability to re-upload media files through it Dashboard UI?

    Thread Starter frank tredici

    (@frank13)

    installed Plugin: Enable Media Replace

    Thanks Eric,
    I wanted to update a couple of free giveaway templates of mine and was scratching my head (well googling anyways!).

    Duh, didn’t think about straightforward FTP, sometimes we (well me!) miss the blindingly obvious sometimes!

    Ta muchly for that!
    Cheers
    Ian

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