Title: Several Feature Requests
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Several Feature Requests

 *  [JP3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jp3/)
 * (@jp3)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-feature-requests/)
 * Hello,
 * This is a feature request for core plugin support. I have already modified your
   plugin to provide the functionality I’m suggesting, but would like to see this
   integrated into your plugin. I can send you the revisions that I’ve made if you
   want.
 * 1.) Preserve the ORIGINAL AUTHOR’s ID (post_author) when saving the images (image
   author in the media library is the topic/reply/post author, not the current userID
   of the person making the edits), and updating current posts (revision uses original
   authorID VS current editerID). I just altered the query to include post_author,
   and then included that in the arrays for values to be updated. Perhaps this functionality
   as well as admin setting to enable/disable it would be suitable?
 * 2.) Auto-update previous posts/topics. I’ve semi-resolved this by changing the
   conditional checks at the beginning of function auto_upload, and adding an action
   at ‘wp’, and then your original checks for the hook ‘save_post’ so that when 
   a post/topic/reply/whatever gets created/edited OR even just VIEWED, it gets 
   processed. I then sent a “site indexing bot” against the site and had it visit
   every page, performing the auto_upload functionality with each pageload. I’d 
   rather see a dedicated “process historic data” capability that iterated through
   the current posts table, altering post_content where applicable.
 * I’m migrating a vBulletin site with 7 years of members and history over to WP/
   BBP/BP, and instead of doing a full-blown gallery, I decided to use the default
   WP media library and to use that (couple with your plugin) to create individual
   user galleries (with BuddyPress gallery profile tabs) and front-end posting. 
   Your plugin (using my modifications) allows me to auto-add images post BY users
   to their OWN “galleries” in their profiles, both for old historic posts and new
   ones. Since I’m using the default WP media library with front-end posting/editing
   for users, they can easily manually add new images too, or use ANY previously
   added images they’ve used (both manual additions and the auto-added ones from
   plugin). It’s seamless to the front-end user.
 * I tried MANY plugins (including what I thought was “ol’ trusty” – image teleporter),
   but they all fell flat on their face with handling the 7 years of historic posts/
   topics/forums/replies, and/or didn’t handle bbPress/BuddyPress content properly.
   Yours “worked” and with a few tweaks was able to come up with a simple, yet really
   slick solution for migrating our old gallery images and external images within
   posts/topics/replies over to a WP alternative. I still had to manually build 
   DB data for our old gallery/image comments, ratings, categories and so on…but
   that’s not a factor for your plugin…..your plugin took care of the BULK of gallery
   conversion/migration to WP (getting the images over to the new setup) and I’m
   happy about that. Just had to do a few small tweaks to your plugin to do so, 
   which made it INVALUABLE and so I wanted to request these features for inclusion
   in future releases.
 * Thank you for your consideration.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-upload-images/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-upload-images/)

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