Images in upload folder with hexadecimal names

Testing the plugin provided in this Answer, I just saw that media_handle_sideload generates exactly this pattern, jpeg extension as well (instead of jpg). Following its path through the core, it seems that only the filter wp_handle_upload could be used for dealing with that. But a brief research shows an interesting use of wp_handle_upload_prefilter: Rename files … Read more

Image File Names

Those numeric suffixes are image sizes corresponding to the width/height values in wp-admin->Settings->Media. It is part of the thumbnail system. If the right image manipulation libraries are installed on the server, WordPress will create these different image sizes when you upload an image. The idea is that you can then load appropriately sized images for … Read more

Display latest 12 images from media library

Simply omit the parent value. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_status’ => ‘published’, ‘numberposts’ => 12, ); Check the documentation for other arguments: Function_Reference/get_posts. Maybe you’d like to use the PHP command shuffle, like shuffle( $attachments );.

3.5 media.editor: what is the event listener for choosing an image?

Found out that overriding some of the wp.media.editor objects methods is the best solution, because it allows you to customize the event handling, but will also preserve a lot of the backend processing and handling that WP has in place for processing images. I basically overrode wp.media.editor.send.attachment, wp.media.gallery.shortcode with my own methods, and wp.media.editor.remove, in … Read more

Why html tags are being appended to my pictures?

Sometimes, WordPress likes wrapping <img … tags with extra HTML. You could try something like as listed on http://css-tricks.com/snippets/wordpress/remove-paragraph-tags-from-around-images/. In your theme’s functions.php file, add the following lines of code near the top: function filter_ptags_on_images($content){ return preg_replace(‘/<p>\s*(<a .*>)?\s*(<img .* \/>)\s*(<\/a>)?\s*<\/p>/iU’, ‘\1\2\3’, $content); } add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘filter_ptags_on_images’);

How to get image extension from wp image editor object?

I tried using generate_filename yesterday but probably it was kind of late and I was trying and didnt manage to make it work, today I managed to workaround the problem without fetching the image another time like this: $save_path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/tmp/’ . $img_name . “-” . $nw . “x” . $nh; $wp_img->save($save_path); $img_name … Read more

Broken urls with http site and https wp-admin

My advice is to make the whole site https. Either add https to the settings -> wordpress address & settings -> site address or remove https if it appears in either of those inputs. For securing admin login panel only: easy method but doesn’t show secure icon. right result but more steps to consider method.

Different upload path per file type

Change upload directory for PDF Files seems to be a good stepping stone forward. Although untested, looking at the code my adaptation would be along the lines of… <?php add_filter(‘wp_handle_upload_prefilter’, ‘custom_media_library_pre_upload’); add_filter(‘wp_handle_upload’, ‘custom_media_library_post_upload’); function custom_media_library_pre_upload($file){ add_filter(‘upload_dir’, ‘custom_media_library_custom_upload_dir’); return $file; } function custom_media_library_post_upload($fileinfo){ remove_filter(‘upload_dir’, ‘custom_media_library_custom_upload_dir’); return $fileinfo; } function custom_media_library_custom_upload_dir($path){ $extension = substr(strrchr($_POST[‘name’],’.’),1); if ( !empty( … Read more

Automatically replace original uploaded image with large image size

Add this to the functions.php file in the theme folder. It replaces the original image with the large image set in settings. You might want to setup a new image format and use that as the new original size though. function replace_uploaded_image($image_data) { // if there is no large image : return if (!isset($image_data[‘sizes’][‘large’])) return … Read more