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How to programatically toggle the media setting “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders”?

The (database) option name for that setting is uploads_use_yearmonth_folders, so you can use update_option() to programmatically change the setting’s value: // 1 to enable the “checked” state update_option( ‘uploads_use_yearmonth_folders’, 1 ); You can also use a filter hook such as option_<name>: add_filter( ‘option_uploads_use_yearmonth_folders’, function ( $value ) { return 1; // 1 = checked } … Read more

Uploading a media item with the wp-json API to a specific path

Don’t think this is possible, however will do a bit more research. Since the functionality to expose this isn’t exposed by the server, you need to do something on the server side to enable this to happen. As you’re doing everything through a client-side script it wouldn’t be too hard to write a little plugin … Read more

Building a Featured Gallery component for Gutenberg

In your GalleryImage const { withSelect } = wp.data; const { compose } = wp.compose; // You should define __ const { __ } = wp.i18n; In your FeaturedGallery You need to return the element, and set a key for the element (which is a list item): ( I also removed the index because it’s … Read more

Can’t locate custom image sizes defined by child theme

These images sizes are defined by WordPress, and were added in WordPress 5.3. The comments in the source code describe them like this: These sizes are meant to enhance the way WordPress displays images on the front-end on larger, high-density devices. They make it possible to generate more suitable srcset and sizes attributes when the … Read more

Automatically Insert alt attribute above image has h2

I find the solution using this How to change the markup WordPress inserts for post images My final code is: add_filter( ‘image_send_to_editor’, ‘add_custom_data_attribute_send_to_editor’, 10, 8 ); function add_custom_data_attribute_send_to_editor( $html, $id, $caption, $title, $align, $url, $size, $alt ){ if( $id > 0 ){ $post = get_post( $id ); $html = str_replace( “<img src”, “<h2>$alt</h2><img src”, $html … Read more

Move media files from the root to date folder structure

Normally, WordPress stores all your images and other media files in the /wp-content/uploads/ folder. To keep it structured, all files are stored in folders organized by year and month. The problem you will run into with reorganizing them is that links to the files in posts and pages will not update if you are simply … Read more

WordPress media upload issue could not insert attachment into the database

Try the following solutins: First of all check your WP database size and check whether the size is full according to your hosting provider’s requirement/rule. Second option, add this line into your wp-config.php: define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’); Also if you have access to php.ini (or php[version number].ini) file on your server, try to add this line: memory_limit … Read more

Is there a way in WordPress to convert images to WebP without a plugin?

if GD is enabled you can use PHP $path=”YOUR_PATH_TO_IMAGES”; $pngFile=”name.png”; $webpFile=”name.webp”; $image = imagecreatefrompng($path . $pngFile); imagepalettetotruecolor($image ); imagealphablending($image , true); imagesavealpha($image , true); imagewebp($image , $path . $webpFile , 100); imagedestroy($image );

Flat media folder vs multiple directories

I recently took over a website that uses a flat media folder in the site root. Is there a benefit to that over using the standard WordPress media folder structure of uploads/year/month/file? Not particularly, mostly preference. Some people might do it thinking it enhances SEO, but I’ve seen no evidence to support that claim. My … Read more

Thumbnail images chopped off but not cropped to exact dimensions

Thanks to Tom’s comments I better understand the issue. There are a number of solutions: re-upload the image after applying new media settings Regenerate the thumbnails with the “Regenerate Thumbnails” plugin or with wp-cli’s wp media regenerate.

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