Title: cannot “insert” from url
Last modified: February 24, 2020

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# cannot “insert” from url

 *  [Darlinghissima](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darlinghissima/)
 * (@darlinghissima)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-insert-from-url/)
 * I have some hundreds images uploaded via ftp in a folder on my server /public_html/
   pics organized in subfolders like: /public_html/pics/botany /public_html/pics/
   geology, etc, while my WP is in: /public_html/wp.
 * The idea was to find something that could list all the files inside the folder“
   pics” and display their thumbnail, automatically updating the list with files
   added or deleted. But I could not find any way (with a plugin, because I cannot
   code) to do what seems to me a so simple task… Why???
 * For many reasons I cannot move neither the images folders nor the wp home, so
   I resigned to make galleries adding manually the URL of each image; unfortunately,
   all the gallery plugins that I have tried don’t have this feature, taking in 
   account only picture from the Media Library. I resigned more and thought that
   I had to: 1) put the link of images inside the ML with “External Media”; 2) make
   Galleries with another plugin
 * To see if the first stage of my workaround works, I activated the URL plugin 
   of “External Media” but I don’t find the option: “Only allow insert to remote
   files” while there is for the other external sources like Dropbox, Instagram 
   etc.
 * Can someone help me suggesting how to untangle? Thanks!

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