Delete and replace in database

  • Resolved Zade

    (@nothin7)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hello and thank you for this amazing plugin that should be built into the WordPress core. Often my clients have different versions of a duplicate image attached to different posts. It would be EXTREMELY useful if there were a new setting added to the Bulk Actions menu that deleted the newer image(s) and replaced all instances of the newer image URL(s) with the older image URL throughout the database. Call it “Delete Preserving All”. Doing this manually for dozens of images across dozens of websites is taking forever and a half. Any chance this might be added?

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  • Thanks for your message.

    We’re in the process of working on a Pro version that will be more sophisticated in handling image references, going beyond just preserving references for Featured Images.

    Finding image references in the actual body of posts is actually quite challenging, so while that’s on our roadmap it will be some time before we’re able to release something we think is reliable even for Pro.

    But we’re actively working on at least making it smarter for some other postmeta keys, and hope to have at least a rudimentary in-body solution in the not-too-wildly-distant future.

    Plugin Author cornershop

    (@cornershop)

    Hi there,

    This feature is available in our brand-new Media Deduper Pro plugin! For more info and to purchase it, check our website at https://cornershopcreative.com/product/media-deduper/.

    In Pro, the Smart Delete feature will allow you to delete duplicate images and have those images replaced in:

    • Links to the image file
    • img tags (including resized versions) in WordPress posts, pages, and other content types
    • Gallery shortcodes with hand-picked images like [gallery ids=”123,456,789”]
    • WooCommerce product gallery images
    • Yoast’s Facebook and Twitter images
    • Featured images

    Let us know if you have any questions!

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