Bulk attaching media files after moving hosts?

  • mistersterling

    (@mistersterling)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    I acquired an existing WordPress site that has several thousand posts and several thousand media files. I was able to move all the posts, pages, and media files using FTP, and now I can’t figure out how to re-attach the media files (they are showing in the media library thanks to the Add From Server plugin).

    Is there any way to “mass” re-attach the files to their respective posts?

    http://www.livesoma.com

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  • Andrew Bartel

    (@andrew-bartel)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Did you move the database too?

    Thread Starter mistersterling

    (@mistersterling)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    I’m not sure? The site looks like it did before I moved everything (theme, pages, posts, formatting, etc.), except for the media files.

    My apologies for my ignorance on the terminology, this is all new to me.

    Andrew Bartel

    (@andrew-bartel)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Ok, did you change the url when you changed servers?

    Thread Starter mistersterling

    (@mistersterling)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Nope, the URL stayed the same. I have some more intel that might help–the media files all have the date I uploaded them to the new server, not the original posting date. That by itself may be the only issue (the URLs are now all date-stamped with Monday’s date).

    Any idea how to change the URLs of the media files to reflect the original dates?

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