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Hi Wes!

Thanks for your patience as I discussed these with our team. Answers are below.

The new pro version will identify duplicate images within the post content, remove the duplicates, and relink the image references?

>> Yes.

Does that work for both attached and linked images?

>> Linked images, absolutely. For attached, are you referring to inline images within a post/page, as opposed to WordPress’ old “attached” feature? If so, the answer is yes: image URLs will be replaced in both src and href attributes.

Does it handle resized images?

>> Yes.

How does it handle resized versions of the same image?

>> MDD Pro will replace resized versions of smart deleted images ONLY if there is also a resized copy of the replacement image of the same size. If you have two copies of the same image at wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image.jpg and wp-content/uploads/2017/07/image2.jpg, and you smart delete the copy from 2015, then URLs like wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image-640×480.jpg will be replaced with wp-content/uploads/2017/07/image2-640×480.jpg, as long as WordPress has previously generated a 640×480 copy of the image from 2017.

How does it handle metadata like titles and captions? My preference would be to optionally merge data with an optional preference for earliest or latest.

>> MDD Pro doesn’t currently provide an interface for merging titles and captions, but when you smart delete images, you choose which copies to delete and which to keep – so you should keep the copy with the best/most accurate title and caption. However, the plugin will NOT modify title or alt attributes of existing tags, or text within existing [caption] shortcodes, in post content. It will only modify image URLs and IDs.

Hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Hello! This issue was fixed in version 1.4.1, released on June 26. Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Hi there,

Thank you so much for sharing your feature request! I’ve passed this along to our team for consideration for a future release. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other ideas on how we can improve the plugin, or if you have any questions.

Hi there,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention! We plan to have an updated release out in the next several days that will fix this issue.

Hi there,

Our new Media Deduper Pro plugin (https://cornershopcreative.com/product/media-deduper/), as well as today’s updated release of Media Deduper 1.4.0 takes care of this issue.

In both plugins, if you attempt to delete all versions of an image, the plugin will retain the one with the lowest ID, often the oldest version of the image.

Let us know if you have any questions!

Hi there,

This feature is available in our brand-new Media Deduper Pro plugin! For more info and to purchase it, check our website at https://cornershopcreative.com/product/media-deduper/.

In Pro, the duplicate scan results default to sorting by size + date descending (i.e. largest files grouped first, with newest copies before older ones).

Let us know if you have any questions!

Hi there,

This feature is available in our brand-new Media Deduper Pro plugin! For more info and to purchase it, check our website at https://cornershopcreative.com/product/media-deduper/.

In Pro, upload warnings include the name of the Media Library item and a link to the duplicate item.

Let us know if you have any questions!

Hi there,

Ongoing indexing is available in our brand-new Media Deduper Pro plugin! For more info and to purchase it, check our website at https://cornershopcreative.com/product/media-deduper/.

In Pro, indexing runs behind-the-scenes so that your site’s images are always ready for review and deduplication.

Let us know if you have any questions!

Hi there,

This feature is available in our brand-new Media Deduper Pro plugin! For more info and to purchase it, check our website at https://cornershopcreative.com/product/media-deduper/.

In Pro, the Smart Delete feature will allow you to delete duplicate images and have those images replaced in:

• Links to the image file
• img tags (including resized versions) in WordPress posts, pages, and other content types
• Gallery shortcodes with hand-picked images like [gallery ids=”123,456,789”]
• WooCommerce product gallery images
• Yoast’s Facebook and Twitter images
• Featured images

Let us know if you have any questions!

Hi there,

This feature is available in our brand-new Media Deduper Pro plugin! For more info and to purchase it, check our website at https://cornershopcreative.com/product/media-deduper/.

In Pro, the Smart Delete feature will allow you to delete duplicate images and have those images replaced in:

• Links to the image file
• img tags (including resized versions) in WordPress posts, pages, and other content types
• Gallery shortcodes with hand-picked images like [gallery ids=”123,456,789”]
• WooCommerce product gallery images
• Yoast’s Facebook and Twitter images
• Featured images

Let us know if you have any questions!

Hi Wes,

This feature is available in our brand-new Media Deduper Pro plugin! For more info and to purchase it, check our website at https://cornershopcreative.com/product/media-deduper/.

In Pro, the Smart Delete feature will allow you to delete duplicate images and have those images replaced in:

• Links to the image file
• img tags (including resized versions) in WordPress posts, pages, and other content types
• Gallery shortcodes with hand-picked images like [gallery ids=”123,456,789”]
• WooCommerce product gallery images
• Yoast’s Facebook and Twitter images
• Featured images

Let us know if you have any questions!

Hi there!

Just wanted to follow-up and let you know that Media Deduper unfortunately does not work with the Frontend Uploader plugin at this time. The way that Media Deduper works to identify duplicates is built on WordPress’ administrative media uploader, so it does not work with other methods of uploading such as Frontend Uploader.

Hi there! As an update on your feature requests:

1. Sort by users who uploaded

>> This feature is now sortable as of plugin v1.3.

2. List the duplicate item directly following the original(s) – by default OR have an option to allow this display

>> Sorting by size addresses these, though at this time, you cannot sort by both user and size at the same time.

3. Better blocking to prevent duplicates caused by “double-clicking” image uploads (see my previous post about this)

>> It sounds like this is an issue related to the Frontend Uploader plugin, which unfortunately is not supported by Media Deduper at this time.

Hi Jennifer,

Sorry for the very delayed response on your question! Recent versions of WordPress do not allow image names to have spaces, so your images may have been uploaded outside of WordPress, or prior to this rule change. Media Deduper is not able to identify duplicate images with spaces in their file names.

Hope this helps!

Hello! Since we haven’t heard back from you, we’re marking this thread as resolved. If you’re still having issues, please let us know!