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1. vestaviascott
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Is their a setting that will tell WP that when I upload a file via the Media manager that has the same file name as an existing file, I want it to overwrite the existing file?

   The current behavior is that it

   1. Does not tell me there is an existing file of the same name
   2. Does not offer to give me the choice to overwrite the existing file OR create a new file and...
   3. Is completely counterintuitive and confusing without 1 and 2 above

   Is their a setting like say, allow_media_overwrites_by_default or even better prompt_for_media_overwrites

   ???

2. vestaviascott
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   If the above option is not possible, then I'd look for suggestions on how to do a workaround by doing the following...

   since the image will named be something like...

   blue-yoga-mat-11.jpg

   OR

   blue-yoga-mat-21.jpg

   And I'm expecting an image like

   blue-yoga-mat-1.jpg

   OR

   blue-yoga-mat-2.jpg

   Is their a way I could use regex or string manipulation to just find a match on the pattern blue-yoga-mat-1 ?

   Example, I'm preloading four images, and I'm expecting them to be blue-yoga-mat-1.jpg, blue-yoga-mat-2.jpg, blue-yoga-mat-3.jpg, blue-yoga-mat-4.jpg

   But the way WP works, these files might actually be named blue-yoga-mat-11.jpg, blue-yoga-mat-21.jpg, etc

   My img tag looks like this...

   <img src="blue-yoga-mat-1.jpg" />

   But if that's not available, I'd just like it to load any image that matches the pattern blue-yoga-mat-1, so it could dynamically search and discover that the closest match is blue-yoga-mat-11.jpg and make the img tag...

   <img src="blue-yoga-mat-12.jpg" />

   Clear as mud?

3. vestaviascott
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Anyone? I'm dying for a solution to this :-)

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