Is this a new install of WordPress with a new database?
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c-m
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Yep a brand new installation.
I checked out the add from server plugin, but it won’t allow me to search outside of my WordPress folder i.e mydomain.tld/wordpress
If you did not import a database that was used to upload those images then wordpress does not know they exist since media when uploaded is actually a post. Those posts do not exist right now. I’m not aware of a way to make wordpress media library recognize them. If you do a google search you might find a way around this or maybe others can shine some light on it.
You might wanna look for the plugin “Add from Server”.
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c-m
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As in my post above Add from Server is no good as you can’t browse outside of the wordpress directory.
The images purposely haven’t been uploaded via the media library as it have abysmal handling of images. Especially when you get thousands and thousands. I need a good directory structure. assets/images/europe/2008.
Plus the images aren’t exclusive to my site, I reference them around the web.
… what? I was able to use Add from Server to browse outside of the wordpress directory; you only need the proper permissions. I added over 19,000 images using Add from Server.
If the images are in your server, you can use that method. I had all of my images separated by year/month, and then used touch to modify the date of the images (this because chown changed the timestamp) per month and year, and then I navigated to each month (we are talking 6 years of images) and added them all to the library.
This ended up duplicating the images (because they get copied to wp-content/uploads, if you have WordPress set that way), but that was ok with me. Once confirmed the images were in the library and working on the blog, I erased the original folder.
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c-m
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The images are on my server.
in the directory /assets/images
The folder is 755 and even though it’s outside of my wordpress directory I’ve set wordpress to upload to there.
Add from server will not let me browse outside of the wordpress directory.
Secondly I don’t want to copy or move the images. I just want to reference them.
Perhaps it’s never been done before. It just sounds really simple in my head. lol.
