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on 4.5.x and does not work. Any chance there will be an update????

On the timed out issue. It was MLA. I was doing the mapping and it just sat at like 40% forever so I just called it. I started mapping all the remaining unmapped in bulk editing instead. It works fine. I’m making the assumption that the server host cut the process. Also I am processing on https and the browser at times loses it’s connection. I know you mentioned some things, but frankly they are over my head.

Your plugin is beyond awesome and your support and amount of documented information here is incredible. I would vote it the best plugin in WordPress for it’s ability to map data from pdf that normally would cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars and ability to process mass items. Also the templated functionality to render results exactly as desired – I couldn’t ask for more.

Thank you so much!

ok, so it timed out again, but the silver lining:
I went into bulk edit and selected the last group of items and used mapping there to do a few hundred at a time. Might help someone who comes by later and reads this.

Right, I had the “when uploaded” unchecked by mistake and I was using the media from ftp so I didn’t know if that would cause even more lag on that program that was already lagging alot. Meanwhile I read about bulk processing on this board somewhere you were talking with someone on how it took a long time. Mine timed out. I guess that was further motivation for me on this topic. I have 7000 pdf files that are going through on the initial implementation of this, normally it would not even approach these numbers. Now I changed the Bulk Chunk to 100, not sure if that is for the processing or not, but it’s a little further along. It timed out twice earlier about 40% through the images although it was running at full speed. Maybe it’s my host. Crossing my fingers at 60% right now.

Thank you for your reply.

I guess what I am asking is for MLA to flag already processed (and changed records) so that it does not overwrite a title already updated under mapping rules that it processed on the last scan. Also if any manual editing was done that record will again be overwritten if the scan is run again to update new records.

I suppose this is a feature where any of these options would be nice:
Do you want to update records already processed by MLA Y/N
Process only records uploaded since 6/7/2016

Thank you.

We are also migrating thousands of images. This system when set on a schedule to 500 per hour is working, but I wish it would say something like “processing on schedule” or “running now” because otherwise you just think that it is really really slow.

Also when you go into search & register, and it is set to only 50 there now, it is slow and it processed the last batch of 500 30 minutes ago.

I just want to mention the Media Library Assistant because that program does a scan and it processes all the images within only abut 5 minutes (6000 of them). It is updating fields on EXIF and replacing data in all files. The only reason I mention it is because it could be an improvement to your plugin to process faster if you could look at how he does it.
I really have no experience programming so I have no idea if this is helpful and I hope you don’t take it wrong.

I love your plugin, it is helping me greatly but I do see that a lot of people have reported it being very slow. It can sometimes take 15 minutes just to pull up the 50 items I have it set for and sometimes it hangs.

Thank you

Thank you for the help. I did end up running sucuri and it identified the offending files.

I had Wordfence running for 2 months on that site without a peep about this, disappointing. Useful to stop intrusions, but seems like once they are in there it fails to realize the hack.

Then I ran Anti Malware plugin, it identified the files that were hacked, but not the fact that a script in the header was going off re-hackign it all day long.

Securi found the hack right away. However I’m still a little leary about another issue that I thought was creating files whenever 404 is hit. I guess i will keep scanning.

I can’t – I’m commissioned privately to do work for the site. I’m a pretty experienced web designer/developer so if you look at the site it does not appear hacked, and it operates. can you tell me what I need to look for besides the obvious?

RESOLVED. USING THIS POST

fabulous! thank you!!!

this type of string picks up june and dec. is there any way to change it so that it only picks up category 1944 .and. june-

it should only give me 10 items but it gives me 20 (all things in 1944).

/mlagallery/?attachment_category=1944&tag2=june&submit=GO

And by the way the plugin for scanning bulk files in is called “media from ftp”

Thank you!

For the sake of prosperity, if anyone is looking for a way to do this.
1. use media from ftp plugin that will get all them scanned into wordpress in bulk.
2. figured out my data is xmp, mapped it fine.

Another issue though with form search:
this type of search form picks up both june and december because they are using if has june .or. if has 1980, I guess.
Is there a way to be more restrictive on this?

https://domain.com/mlagallery/?attachment_category=1980&tag2=june&submit=GO

<form id=”attachment-tag-form” method=”get” action=””>
<select name=”attachment_category” class=”postform”>
<option value=””>– Select a Value –</option>
<option value=”1980″>1980</option>
<option value=”1981″>1981</option>
</select>
<select name=”tag2″ class=”postform”>
<option value=””>– Select a Value –</option>
<option value=”jun”>june</option>
<option value=”jul”>july</option>
</select>
<input type=”submit” id=”submit” name=”submit” value=”GO”>
</form>

[mla_gallery columns=1 post_mime_type=application/pdf post_parent=all mla_link_text=”{+title+}” link=file mla_caption=”{+description+}{+credit+} {+title+}” size=thumbmnail attachment_category=”{+request:attachment_category+}” post_per_page=9]`

Thank you

So I have found the right code to indeed do exactly what I need, however as I mentioned before now I need to either upload all the files into wp, or do a batch processing task. I know that I can map to custom fields using upload, ideally I want them in categories which would work best as i have the code written now, although i guess i could change my code a little to instead of options being attachment-category it was customfields.

I’m not worried about those things. What I am wondering is what is the best way to scan and batch them all in. there are hundreds of them sorted in folders and I’d like to leave it that way. I could move those folders under wp-content/uploads or is there a way to set a base directory for MLA only and still have wp process all other images in /uploads? I was seeing this under the tab IPTC/EXIF
If this would be too much processing, I test another plugin that did some of the work and then I was thinking I could move fields in mysql after it finished. What would you recommend. and again, thanks for all your help!

ok I am reading this one now … working on it.

ok, so I used some code from another post that worked out really well to give me a search.

I got it that your plugin will help me easily populate what I need without needing others. =I understand things a bit better now.

What I am stuck on is the folders where documents reside.
I already have the files on the server.
I have tried a bunch of things to get this to happen and yours is the best one *if* I can get a heirarchy to do it.

so on the server I have folders, 1980, with 12 subfolders in it for jan, feb, march, etc. I have years of this heirarchy. I can easily move them to wordpress and make them show up there.
But… I need a navigation without having to create a bunch of pages.
I can tag them, or categorize them but I need a navigation.

How can I get one using your system. I tried mla_tagcloud and mla_tag_cloud and nothing happens, it does not work, as if it is not turned on.

You mentioned filtering – is there a shortcode so that I could have the tags or categories or customfields show up in a list? or even better I wish I could get a page query string such as https://www.domain.org/?=mla_gallery-2004docs-march because then I could feed it into an existing search mechanism.

ok i looked at that. The thing is that I have about 3000 pdf files in about 300 directories nested by date and month. I need someway to get a navigation and list of the files in each folder as people navigate to them. I thought this would be ideal, and it is beautiful, but I need to also get either a custom field to display for the name that i can import the names from the metadata or just pull out the pdf meta-title. Otherwise its a bunch of files in dates folers that say things like 123-45a.pdf and so on.

My files are not attached to posts or anything like that. I was going to try doing this in php, right now it’s a jsp that wont port over to a new server.

I really like your plugin – its awesome, but i guess it’s not the right thing for this job unless i can figure out how to populate all the custom fields without manually clicking.

Thanks for your help.