{"id":18302212,"date":"2025-02-12T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/changed-opinion-excellent-plugin\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:12:09","slug":"changed-opinion-excellent-plugin","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/changed-opinion-excellent-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Changed Opinion: Excellent Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I installed the plugin and was fairly confused by the plugin WP Settings which has only a checkbox for changing the index. I found the actual plugin features under Media. I was again a bit confused because indexing the media is the third tab, but there is no Index my media or whatever on the first tab. I decided that indexing my media is probably a good idea so I did that, but then the big choice: <strong>Manually delete duplicates<\/strong>, <strong>bulk delete duplicates<\/strong>, or <strong>smart delete duplicates<\/strong>. Oh the anxiety this brought on.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This one instruction made the plugin work flawless for me. I hope it helps others.<br \/><\/strong>I finally got the nerve up to <strong>manually delete duplicates<\/strong>, but what I did not realize is you want to leave the image you intend to keep unchecked!<br \/><br \/>Features I&#8217;d like to see:<br \/>An option to turn off Bulk Delete Unused Image, since with many builders and advanced block libraries this is going to result in issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An option to remove post meta when File for attachment # could not be found.<br \/><br \/>An option to keep my most recent image. <br \/><em>Since this is what I usually want to keep. I find that when I take photos I will take several images and almost always I stop when I get the image I want, the last image. I have edited \/ managed photoshoots for years and this is almost always the case.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An explanation on how Smart Bulk Delete Duplicates works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18302212","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-images","topic-tag-photos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18302212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18302212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18302212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}