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<p>This plugin offers limited support. Please do not expect new features or too many bugfixes. Features may be removed at any time.</p>
<p>Add From Server is designed to help ease the pain of bad web hosts, allowing you to upload files via FTP or SSH and later import them into WordPress.</p>
<p>This plugin is NOT designed to..<br />
 * Be used as a replacement for the file uploader<br />
 * Be used for migration of websites<br />
 * Re-import your files after moving webhosting<br />
 * Batch import media</p>
<p>This plugins IS designed to..<br />
 * Import files which are larger than your hosting allows to be uploaded.<br />
 * Import files which are too large for your internet connections upload speed.</p>
<p>WordPress does a better job of file uploads than this plugin, so please consider your needs before you use it.</p>
<p>You may also want to look at using WP-CLI for media import purposes:<br />
https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/media/import/</p>


Add From Server

Whenever I need to upload media files that are too big to upload directly to WordPress, I FTP them to the server and use this plugin to add them.

Great tool for those big media files you can only ftp to the server

Add From Server is designed to help ease the pain of bad web hosts, allowing you to upload files via FTP or SSH and later import them into WordPress.

Katsushi Kawamori

<p>Bulk register files on the server to the Media Library.</p>
<h4>Register to media library</h4>
<ul>
<li>Maintain folder structure.</li>
<li>This create a thumbnail of the image file.</li>
<li>This create a metadata(Images, Videos, Audios).</li>
<li>Change the date/time.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Sibling plugin</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/moving-media-library/" rel="ugc">Moving Media Library</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-from-ftp/" rel="ugc">Media from FTP</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-from-zip/" rel="ugc">Media from ZIP</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Note</h4>
<ul>
<li>If you want to use a multi-byte file name, use UTF-8. The file name is used as the title during registration, but is sanitized and changed to a different file name.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How it works</h4>
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Bulk Media Register

It is an essential and convenient plug-in for registering images in bulk.

Very handy

Works well, but I had to nudge the plugin several times for large file sizes (about 3GB). Usability is rather poor.

Works good


After a backup through ftp all db entries of the media were gone. This plugin fixed just right that!



Do have a tip to improve: it would be nice to get the date of the image created and set than one because now all media files are from the date of today ;-) but hey, if that is the worst thing


Thank you so much

Bulk register files on the server to the Media Library.

Add From Server vs Bulk Media Register