This was an interesting question as I knew nothing about modifying the default behaviour of the Media Library. So, I ended up doing some research on the matter. I found out that the Media Library uses wp_ajax_query_attachments() to get the images and other media. Inside the ajax function there’s ajax_query_attachments_args that can be used to … Read more
Try t0 Regenerate thumbnails by using this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
You’re most likely hitting the max upload or post memory. Try to increase your memory limit in config define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’); You may also need to change it in a php.ini file.
How to limit the amount of images uploaded to the media library within post.php
Use ShortPixel to optimize photos, or a CDN to server them in a faster way. For low-cost solution offload media files to S3 via a plugin.
Based on my research, you would need to run a query on directly on the database using WPDB. So you would do something like this: Add this in your functions.php file: // retrieves the attachment ID from the file URL function get_image_id($image_url) { global $wpdb; $the_attachment = $wpdb->get_col($wpdb->prepare(“SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE guid=’%s’;”, $image_url )); … Read more
I had to implement the following: Change the admin UI to include my custom filters add_action(‘wp_enqueue_media’, function () { wp_enqueue_script(‘media-library-taxonomy-filter’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/assets/js/custom-media-filter.js’, array(‘media-editor’, ‘media-views’)); }); In the custom-media-filter.js I am appending the custom select HTML and every time my custom select is changed, add the query parameters in the URL and redirect with this … Read more
Force redirect HTTP to HTTPS using a plugin like Really Simple SSL Plugin, it’s easy to use and it’s free.
How can I no-index specific PDF files in my Avada WordPress media library so that they don’t appear in search results?
WordPress Media Import, images not in Media Library