Media images not importing

None of the remote images would import – turning on the debug showed that the new server couldn’t access the remote server (when it blatantly could as I could access the same urls on the remote server) which suggested that for some reason the plugin was failing.

I recoded the fetch_remote file and it now works. I’m not saying this will work for everyone but a lot of people seem to have reported this problem.

function fetch_remote_file( $url, $post ) {
		// extract the file name and extension from the url
		$file_name = basename( $url );

		// fetch the remote url and write it to the placeholder file
		$returned_data = wp_remote_get( $url );
		// request failed
		if ( ! $returned_data ) {
			return new WP_Error( 'import_file_error', __('Remote server did not respond', 'wordpress-importer') );
		}
		// make sure the fetch was successful
		if ( $returned_data['response']['code'] != '200' ) {
			return new WP_Error( 'import_file_error', sprintf( __('Remote server returned error response %1$d %2$s', 'wordpress-importer'), esc_html($returned_data['response']), get_status_header_desc($returned_data['response']) ) );
		}
		 $upload = wp_upload_bits( $file_name, 0, $returned_data['body'], $post['upload_date'] );
		 if ( $upload['error'] ) return new WP_Error( 'upload_dir_error', $upload['error'] );
		$filesize = filesize( $upload['file'] );

		if ( 0 == $filesize ) {
			@unlink( $upload['file'] );
			return new WP_Error( 'import_file_error', __('Zero size file downloaded', 'wordpress-importer') );
		}

		$max_size = (int) $this->max_attachment_size();
		if ( ! empty( $max_size ) && $filesize > $max_size ) {
			@unlink( $upload['file'] );
			return new WP_Error( 'import_file_error', sprintf(__('Remote file is too large, limit is %s', 'wordpress-importer'), size_format($max_size) ) );
		}

		// keep track of the old and new urls so we can substitute them later
		$this->url_remap[$url] = $upload['url'];
		$this->url_remap[$post['guid']] = $upload['url']; // r13735, really needed?
		// keep track of the destination if the remote url is redirected somewhere else
		if ( isset($headers['x-final-location']) && $headers['x-final-location'] != $url )
			$this->url_remap[$headers['x-final-location']] = $upload['url'];

		return $upload;
	}

Hope this helps someone

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