Change Date of Media Item

  • Resolved frgtech

    (@frgtech)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,
    I have a few media galleries that I need to be sorted by date and have accomplished this task with the help of Meow Gallery. It will read the created_timestamp field and sort accordingly.

    Now I need to include some images from our site’s Instagram feed that were never posted to our blog and go back over a year. I need them show up in the gallery in proper order. Instagram apparently strips the EXIF data which makes using that info for a creation date impossible, but luckily the filenames include the post date.

    ex: 2018-05-26_BjQPwgUjdM2.jpg

    So I have the dates I need to populate the created_timestamp field in the db, but I don’t know how to go about applying everything. If I upload through the media gallery, it puts everything in a folder for the current date. The created_timestamp gets populated with a 0 and after trying to manually change it to the correct 10 digit timestamp, the image doesn’t show up in the media manager any longer. It’s there, but the thumbnail is missing.

    I figure there must be an easier way to go about doing this. I’m still fairly new to WP administration but I have gone down the google rabbit hole and haven’t turned up anything yet. Any guidance is most appreciated.

    Cheers!

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