If the image is in the content source you can extract it and use media_sideload_image(); to import it into the media library. This code sample is from my plugin Media Tools. Which has does this via a admin page via ajax. It also sets the extracted image as the featured image for the post. The … Read more
Your best way of doing that would be downloading the wp-content/uploads directory, by ftp access.
Go to wp-includes and then open file media.php in line number 1907 you will find: »All media items«.
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
How can I use the TinyMCE editor for the description field on a Media item?
Actually, wordpress stores the media library files also as a post format. so you can follow this way to get your attachment media file and their id’s. Hope this will help you. function get_images_from_media_library() { $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_mime_type’ =>’image’, ‘post_status’ => ‘inherit’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’ ); $query_images = … Read more
If you server does not have the right image libraries installed WordPress can’t create actual thumbnails, but can only resize them in CSS. I suspect that that is the problem. Create a file on your server and put <?php phpinfo(); ?> in it. Then load that file. You will get a table of server configuration … Read more
You can use the Add From Server plugin.
Add tab on new media library
You can just replace the html with a checkbox, ensuring the name of the checkbox is the name of the <input> we’re replacing. You can also change the ‘label’ and the ‘help’ text, (see here for there the filter is fired) – just simply uncomment the appropritate lines and replace the text with your own. … Read more