How to insert images from a URL

  • Resolved NormanW

    (@yugogardner)


    6 years, 2 months ago

    I have used an ftp to upload several folders of images into the uploads folder on my site: **/public_html/wp-content/uploads/[year]/[month]

    I am unable to view any of the jpegs using any of the tools I can fine either in TinyMCE or Gutenberg.

    >add media> Media library shows just the images I’ve uploaded from my desktop, but the year/month folders and images are not shown and I can’t find a way of accessing them.

    Please can someone tell what I’m doing wrong or suggest a plugin that will give me the functionality I need.

    Thanks for reading my question.

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  • Thread Starter NormanW

    (@yugogardner)

    An hour ago I found a solution. After a lot of searching I found a plugin called ‘Media Library Folders for WordPress’.

    The plugin read me states the following:
    Media Library Folders does not work like the file manager on you computer. It only display images and folders that have been added to the Media Library database. To display new folders that have not been added through the Media Library Folders you can click the Check for new folders option in the Media Library Folders submenu in the WordPress Dashboard.

    Once installed, in the Media Library Folder, I found the sub menu, checked and all the folders I uploaded with the FTP were now visible. I then had to individually scan each folder with the plugin, but this has registered all the images, in their respective folders, so I can now load media images in the normal way with TinyMCE

    Plugin Author Andrew Ozz

    (@azaozz)

    I have used an ftp to upload several folders of images into the uploads folder on my site

    Generally doing that is not a good idea. Then WordPress won’t “know” anything about these images (there will not be any image metadata in the DB). That will prevent many features from working properly, like image editing/rotation, adding of responsive image markup (srcset), etc.

    You should upload images through WordPress, then all needed attachment posts and metadata are added/created.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Andrew Ozz.
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