Adding a folder to word press Media Library

Why isn;t there an “Add Folder” or an “Add Directory” function available on the Media Library page in WordPress? Because this isn’t a feature of WordPress, when you upload files it creates a post in the background, an “attachment”, and those are what it’s listing. This is why dumping photos in the uploads folder won’t … Read more

Media Library it doesn’t show any of the uploaded images after updating wordpress 6.6.2

After a thorough inspection of the database, i saw that the post_type for the images had changed to “post” instead of “attachment“. The solution Update Post mime type from “post_status = inherit” sql: // Mime type – img/jpeg UPDATE wp_posts SET post_type = ‘attachment’ WHERE wp_posts.post_status = ‘inherit’ and wp_posts.post_mime_type = ‘image/jpeg’; // Mime type – img/png UPDATE wp_posts SET post_type = ‘attachment’ WHERE wp_posts.post_status = ‘inherit’ and wp_posts.post_mime_type = ‘image/png’; // Mime type – img/webp UPDATE wp_posts SET post_type = ‘attachment’ WHERE wp_posts.post_status = ‘inherit’ and wp_posts.post_mime_type = ‘image/webp’; // Mime type – … Read more

WordPress Permissions Issue for Media Library / uploading

As you can see in wp-includes/script-loader.php, the exact message ‘An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later.’ is the default error message. After looking further in wp-includes/js/plupload/handlers.js you can realize that something specific happened. You could debug this by setting a breakpoint to look up exact error code. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/13372025/2234089 for more information … Read more

Add URL in image upload error message

It’s probable that HTML tags are being removed from output. You can test this by adding other HTML tags (ex: <strong>) and see if they are removed. If the bold text shows, it’s possible then that bold text is permitted but not links (using wp_kses() or similar). I backtracked the code quite a bit to … Read more