There are several free programs for manually resizing images, such as ImageOptim, which can bulk optimize images. I know you said you looked at plugins, but in case you missed it EWWW Image Optimizer is free to use if you run it on your server and don’t need to hook into their API for additional … Read more
I suspect that the missing file, which is somewhere in the wp-content/uploads folder, was not moved to the new hosting place. You could use an FTP client to move all images from the old hosting place to your local computer, then use FTP client to copy only the newer images from your local computer to … Read more
You could use the gettext filter. See the examples here https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/gettext. In your filter you will add code to check IF it’s the exact text you want to change then if the users meta value is what you are looking for the return the revised text. Else return the passed text unchanged.
You can reupload files via ftp, i believe you did via cpanel and filenames corrupted. Also you can use plugin like this https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-image-filenames/
Seems like you have several misconceptions/misunderstanding about when/why and how you should write to files. In general never write to any directory in which code resides, either core code or themes and plugins code. Those directories might be shared between different wordpress instances, and therefor they are not appropriate to be used for data related … Read more
You are right when you predict you will be at the mercy of the uploaders, and they can be very inventive when it comes to sizing and aspect ratio! My approach is to be very verbose in the front-end UI as to what images are acceptable – “Please upload standard ratio images for example 1200×900, … Read more
There is a difference between WordPress files you upload on your FTP, and WordPress “content” that is stored in your database. For your content to be updated, you have to migrate your WordPress database online. Resources: This link explains how you can migrate your WordPress website entirely https://www.wpexplorer.com/migrating-wordpress-website/ For example, has stated by @WebElaine, you … Read more
First of all, if you want to apply categories to Attachments, you have to enable categories for the attachment. You can do this by using the register_taxonomy_for_object_type() function. In your plugin file or theme functions file, add the following: function wp_add_categories_to_attachments() { register_taxonomy_for_object_type( ‘category’, ‘attachment’ ); } add_action( ‘init’ , ‘wp_add_categories_to_attachments’ );
Well, what you want to achieve saving uploads in another domain? You want to share the uploads folder with another domain? Did you know you can use more than one domain (site) in a single WordPress Installation? It’s called Multisite: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/ultimate-guide-multisite/ To change the upload dir. Just use the filter upload_dir. It’s documented here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/upload_dir … Read more
After some further experimenting and talking to a colleague, we found the answer (team effort!) altering how the file handler deals with the file content. // Assign values required $wx_fileName = $_FILES[‘file’][‘name’][$i]; $wx_fileMime = $_FILES[‘file’][‘type’][$i]; $wx_fileSize = $_FILES[‘file’][‘size’][$i]; $wx_tmpf = $_FILES[‘file’][‘tmp_name’][$i]; //$wx_file = fopen($_FILES[‘file’][‘tmp_name’][$i], “rb”); $wx_file = base64_encode(file_get_contents($_FILES[‘file’][‘tmp_name’][$i])); Basically replacing fopen() with file_get_contents() and base64 … Read more