Steel Rat

Elvis! You’re Awesome! I failed to see the nuance with all the options. That’s almost exactly what I needed. I also discovered some other options that worked better in the lightbox.

Thank you!

the odd dimensions were also happening before I chose that no crop option. There are others that do it as well, but the vast majority are fine, even though their dimensions aren’t square.

I will play around with some of the other options.

So here’s some more info.

I was using Media Synch to add a few thousand media files from custom folders under the wp-content/uploads folder structure. Was working fine for days, as I added a few files at a time (from a handful to a couple hundred, depending on the folder). Then today, in one folder on the server, it’s only seeing about half the files. All of the files it won’t see are 1mb in size or higher. They’re all .png files, which is all I’ve been loading for the past few days.

I can drag the files and upload them normally in the Media Library, but that doesn’t put them where I want them. I’ve cleared my WP cache multiple times, cleared my browser cache (tried on more than one machine, so it’s not machine-specific). I uninstalled, deleted, and re-installed Media Synch, but it still won’t see the files over 1MB in this one folder. It’s very odd.

Why all of a sudden would Media Synch stop working on larger image files, when it was having no problems prior?

I’m familiar with the individual gallery search, I have it implemented.

But on my site it’s important to be able to search all of the galleries at once. They might be wanting to search for a specific aircraft, or a specific term that may fall into multiple categories.

I’ll have to look for a plugin that will allow a tag search or something.

The cropping was alleviated after having to completely re-do the galleries. But the odd dimensions are still there.

I know about the attributes, but I sometimes need to replace the image itself, without changing, or having to re-enter, the attributes.

Well, it happened again.

It seems I can’t rely on WP’s media library for much of anything beyond a few images here and there. Days of work down the drain.

I have a similar issue, I think.

I’m also using Responsive, and I want all the thumbnails to be the same dimensions, but no cropping of the images. I have achieved the latter with your help, but the thumbnails want to vary in size, only sometimes, based on the image dimensions. Which can give some odd results. The sample gallery is here: https://rpgmapshare.com/fantasy-mapping-objects/gallery/fantasy-miscellaneous/

If you scroll down, you’ll see what I mean. I’ve changed the thumbnail size to try and get them to resize to all the same, but it doesn’t work.

I had done that early on, and it didn’t help.

It’s working again as it should. Something became corrupted in the media library itself. I had to delete a lot of files, and run a plugin that repairs the database and image references.

I still don’t know how it happened, which is the scary part.

I do appreciate all your help!

I’ve deleted all files from the November 2023 folder. And the cached folder. Still the media library won’t load with All Dates or November 2023 selected. Previous months load fine.

Does ANYONE have any ideas that aren’t server-related??

Things have gone from bad to worse. I was at one point able to load the media library, after increasing the server timeouts from the default of 30 to 60. Shouldn’t have been necessary. But now it won’t load period. Just sits and spins.

I’ve even deleted a couple hundred files from the November 2023 folder on the sever via FTP. Nothing. This is really messed up.

So the same file uploads fine, within a few seconds, on another WP site on the same server. So none of the server settings are relevant. This has something to do with the one site. and it happened suddenly with no changes made. Extremely frustrating.

I’ve added a lot of files for the Galleries this month. And with all the thumbnails WP creates, there are 2776 files in the uploads/2023/11 folder. Could the high number of files be the problem?

So I’m still having issues uploading. An image file that’s 850×850 and 640k, media library takes a long time, then tells me this:

The server cannot process the image. This can happen if the server is busy or does not have enough resources to complete the task. Uploading a smaller image may help. Suggested maximum size is 2560 pixels.

I uploaded larger files earlier in the day, no system or WP changes were made. Just all of a sudden, this is happening. The files does get uploaded, but something isn’t right.

I’ve increased the Max execution time and max input time to 120 each. This should be more than enough.

It’s well below that. It’s smaller than others I was already uploading. My max upload size is 50M.

I do need each one. Though having said that, I deleted a few during this event, so I have fewer now ??

I still need to figure out how to get rid of the one stuck file…