How to upload multiple images to a posts gallery from a remote directory

  • I regularly take pictures on the road and end up remote uploading to a folder hosted on my server. In the ‘add media’ section of my create posts page it gives me the ability to add an image from a URL. But I would like to add multiple images from a URL. How can I accomplish this? The only way around this I can see is to download all the images from my online folder and then RE-upload them in the ‘add media’. But this is not ideal as I often work remotely, from an iPad. And I would like a simple solution for adding multiple images from URL. Thanks so much.

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  • Have you tried NextGen Gallery or Lazyest Gallery? Both plugins are available here and work well to manage photos and create specific galleries and/or albums for posts/pages.

    Example of NextGen Gallery with many thumbs:

    https://garyandisabeau.swansonheritage.com/

    Example of Lazyest Gallery slideshow (see links on site):

    https://arseneaulandscaping.com/

    Both are sites I designed and host.

    Thread Starter theavgs

    (@theavgs)

    Hi, thanks for the reply. I have played with those galleries although I have others that I use that suit some specific needs I have a little better. However, the gallery is not the issue. My problem is that when I am on the road, I have images that are uploaded to a directory on my server. I can upload images from this directory to WordPress for use in my posts by using the ‘upload from URL’ option when you choose to add media.

    However, this only allows me the capability of uploading ONE image at a time as I have to point the URL directly to each image. This is EXTREMELY time consuming if I have a large number of images I would like to post. I would like to be able to tell WordPress to upload ALL of the images in the directory, but I cannot figure out how to do this.

    Unfortunately, changing my workflow to NOT use an online directory as a dropbox for my images is not an option for me right now because of specific needs of some of my clients. So I would like to find a fix on the WordPress side to upload MULTIPLE images from URL. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

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