How to insert images from folder

  • Resolved NormanW

    (@yugogardner)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    I’m setting up a brand new website with some fixed pages and a blog.

    The site is hosted and uses my own domain name. I have used filezila to upload several folders with images and they are in: https://**/public_html/wp-content/uploads/%5Byear%5D/%5Bmonth%5D

    I am unable to view any of the jpegs using any of the tools I can find either in Gutenberg or with classic TinyMCE.

    The image block gives three options, Upload (which takes me to my desktop), Media Library, or insert from URL.

    Ideally I’d like to have the folders available in the media library but >add media >Media library shows just the images I’ve uploaded from my desktop, but the year/month folders and images are not shown and I can’t find a way of accessing them.

    Please can someone tell what I’m doing wrong or suggest a plugin that will give me the functionality I need.

    Thanks for reading my question.

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  • Using a Content Management System like WordPress is different from just creating a HTML site offline and just upload the assets. WordPress Media Library needs all images uploaded through its interface to be able to offer the image to the content creator.

    Depending how many picture there are you could also use this plugin “Save and Import from URL”

    You could drag and drop a lot of picture from your desktop folder to the media library and let WordPress take care of the rest while importing all the files. It’s very powerful.

    Thread Starter NormanW

    (@yugogardner)

    Thanks for your reply Birgit.

    An hour ago I found a solution. After a lot of searching I found a plugin called ‘Media Library Folders for WordPress’.

    The plugin read me states the following:
    Media Library Folders does not work like the file manager on you computer. It only display images and folders that have been added to the Media Library database. To display new folders that have not been added through the Media Library Folders you can click the Check for new folders option in the Media Library Folders submenu in the WordPress Dashboard.

    Once installed, in the Media Library Folder, I found the sub menu, checked and all the folders I uploaded with the FTP were now visible. I then had to individually scan each folder with the plugin, but this has registered all the images, in their respective folders, so I can now load media images in the normal way with Gutenberg

    Excellent!

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