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How to save media files under custom folder without changing wp-config.php or changing media settings

Here is simple function to create your own sub directory for every upload. function kv_custom_image_dir( $pathdata ) { $subdir=”/uploads_img”.$pathdata[‘subdir’]; $pathdata[‘path’] = str_replace($pathdata[‘subdir’], $subdir, $pathdata[‘path’]); $pathdata[‘url’] = str_replace($pathdata[‘subdir’], $subdir, $pathdata[‘url’]); $pathdata[‘subdir’] = str_replace($pathdata[‘subdir’], $subdir, $pathdata[‘subdir’]); return $pathdata; } add_filter( ‘upload_dir’, ‘kv_custom_image_dir’ ); From my above code, I changed my images folder as uploads_img, you can change … Read more

What filter should I use to insert a button inside on Media>Add New

Edited after OP insert edited question Once you are creating a new upload system, I thing that you want to add button/link to different part of WP admin: A submenu on “Media” menu A submenu on the “New” menu in the Admin Bar A button inside the Media > Add New page (like in OP … Read more

Organize media uploads in folders – I have a physical access to (my) server

If you needed help to install WordPress I recommend you do not use custom media folder. Either stick to the Year/Month structure default, or put all your media in the wp-content/uploads folder (in Settings > Media > uncheck Organise my uploads into month- and year-based folders). Most WP installations use less than 100 photos and … Read more

Upload file without attaching it to a POST

The $post_id argument for media_handle_upload is used to set the column post_parent for attachment post. Posts without any parent have 0 as post parent, not null. So, use 0 as argument and it will work. If you read Codex page linked above it states: … If you don’t want this media attached to a specific … Read more

WordPress (3.9.1) MultiSite Permissions. Is chown the answer?

There’s a section on WordPress file permissions in the Codex article on Hardening WordPress. The article doesn’t talk much about Multisite, but it should be treated similarly to the rest of wp-content — ie, the server process needs to be able to write to it. I’d steer clear of doing chown www-data:www-data [/path/]wp-content/uploads/sites — you … Read more

Using subdomain to upload media/images etc on 2 different blogs

First, create the folder/directory or the subdomain you want to use for your WordPress uploads, make sure it has the correct permissions and is writable. In your wp-config.php file which is in the root of your WordPress installations, you can add the code below. Do this on both your WordPress installations and modify the location … Read more

add_image_size() and uploading the exact size leaves 1×1 image in uploads

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size Specifically note that the syntax is add_image_size( $size, $width, $height ); What is likely happening is the array is resolved to false and defaulting to 0, as well as height. As far as I know you can’t have a 0x0 image, so it becomes 1×1 for that size.

wordpress media library shows empty images

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How to upload unknown file type?

You can use this function as you mentioned and you need to learn your file extensions mime type (in example i add svg and xcf upload ability to wordpress) add_filter(‘upload_mimes’, ‘ability_to_upload’); function ability_to_upload($mimes = array()) { $mimes[‘svg’] = ‘image/svg+xml’; $mimes[‘xcf’] = ‘image/xcf’; return $mimes; } Here is a link for mime types list and file … Read more

window.send_to_editor and jQuery .attr() conflicts with multiple custom upload image meta boxes

I did similar thing recently but used the wp.media instead of ThickBox https://codex.wordpress.org/Javascript_Reference/wp.media with the same code from Codex. The only thing to make it work with multiple inputs is to move the frame variable from global scope to click function, so the ‘frame’ will be fresh for each click.

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