You can use these functions to find and delete image attachments that are 3 days old since their date of creation: // Delete attachments (images) that are {n} days old. function auto_delete_old_image_atts() { // How many days old. $days = 3; // TRUE = bypasses the trash and force deletion. $force_delete = true; // Get … Read more
You don’t need to transfer all media library to another host to improve the speed of your website. Instead, you have to follow several ways of optimizing your website. For instance, you can optimize images of your WordPress website for a better speed. You can use plugins, like Imsize, to reduce the size of the … Read more
I did a googles of the issue (using ‘wordpress restrict media access’) and got this link on the first page https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-restrict-media-library-access-to-users-own-uploads-in-wordpress/ Which has this code // Limit media library access add_filter( ‘ajax_query_attachments_args’, ‘wpb_show_current_user_attachments’ ); function wpb_show_current_user_attachments( $query ) { $user_id = get_current_user_id(); if ( $user_id && !current_user_can(‘activate_plugins’) && !current_user_can(‘edit_others_posts ‘) ) { $query[‘author’] = $user_id; … Read more
Rebuild thumbnails via WP Cli – how?
Offload Media Library to other domain on a different server
The short answer is that this cannot be done with vanilla WordPress (I know, I tried). However, a little coding could make that happen. Images are stored in WordPress as a built-in post type – Attachments. This is what you would need to update on the remote sites with details of the CDN image as … Read more
Here are 2 methods to disable all uploading for users that are not administrators: Method 1: Remove the upload_files capability from the roles you do not want to be able to upload. e.g. removing it from author role: $role = get_role( ‘author’ ); $role->remove_cap( ‘upload_files’ ); This is saved to the database so it should … Read more
edit: ok after working on this for the last hour ive finally found a solution that works without affecting uploading and without messing with ignore or reset wp.media.frame.on(‘open’, function() { if (wp.media.frame.content.get() !== null) { // this forces a refresh of the content wp.media.frame.content.get().collection._requery(true); // optional: reset selection wp.media.frame.content.get().options.selection.reset(); } }, this);
When I add images to my Media Library they aren’t available in the Media Library for about an hour. It seems like there is a queue or some sort of CRON that fires. WordPress handles uploads immediately, there is no latency, queues, or cron unless you introduce one yourself. The image appears in the media … Read more
Deleting the files out of the uploads folder is almost certainly the culprit here. Your theme may have custom code that affects the Media Library, but since you wrote it and you don’t think there is you’re probably right 🙂 So we can assume it’s the uploads folder. There is a database entry per file, … Read more