Spencer Piontkowski

<h4>What is this?</h4>
<p>I found the WordPress Importer plugin is good for importing posts and comments, but is lacking when it comes to importing large attachments (like images) from large sites. My import would often time out and crash. I wrote this plugin to help with my own blog migrations, but I hope you find it useful too.</p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>As a prerequisite, import your WXR file using the WordPress importer, but do not select the option to Download and Import Attachments. I have found that an import file up to 15MB big will work as long as you don’t import attachments.</li>
<li>Navigate to the Attachment Importer screen.</li>
<li>Select your WXR export file.</li>
<li>Select the user you would like to be the owner of the downloaded images. Default: current user.</li>
<li>Sit back and let the importer run. The process can take as little as 10 seconds for 10 images, or about two hours for 2000 images. These times depend on the server that hosts your WordPress site.</li>
<li>If you receive any errors during the process, try running the file again after it finishes.  The plugin is programmed to ignore files that match the following criteria:
<ul>
<li>Same name</li>
<li>Same file name</li>
<li>Same upload date</li>
<li>Same file size</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h4>How it works.</h4>
<p>This plugin uses <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileReader" rel="nofollow ugc">FileReader</a> and to parse the XML file in the browser, then uses ajax to request WordPress perform individual uploads.</p>
<h4>License</h4>
<p>Attachment Importer – A plugin for WordPress to import attachments from another blog using a WXR file.<br />
Copyright (C) 2014 Toasted Lime</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.</p>
<p>The license and copyright applies to all resources bundled with this plugin, except as noted below:</p>
<p>Portions of this plugin use code from:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-importer/" rel="ugc">WordPress Importer</a> which is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2, Copyright (C) 2013 wordpressdotorg.</li>
<li><a href="http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery UI Smoothness Theme</a> which is distributed under the terms of MIT License, Copyright (C) 2014 jQuery Foundation and other contributors.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Changeset</h3>
<h4>0.6.0</h4>
<p>Should not get “Remote server did not respond” as often.</p>
<h4>0.5.6</h4>
<ul>
<li>Invalid file type produces non-fatal error.</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.5.5</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added an overall progress bar.</li>
<li>Improve how the program responds to events like fatal errors, AJAX failure, or if there are no attachments in the import file.</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.5.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed issue reading namespaces in import file that caused the program not to work in FireFox and Internet Explorer.</li>
<li>Moved plugin to Import menu from the Media menu.</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.5.3</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added option to add five second delay between image ajax requests</li>
<li>Reformat Readme</li>
<li>Added jQuery tooltip</li>
</ul>


Attachment Importer

Thank you so much for sharing this with the WP community. It helped me get around timeouts and so much frustration. I didn't find any problems with the plugin.

Very helpful plugin that works

I found this plug-in as I was having trouble moving data on a shared server that can not be migrated.
Importing of media that has failed many times is proceeding smoothly.
Thank you for a wonderful plugin !!

Thank you so much!!!!

Even though the plugin hasn't been updated for quite a while, it still works great even with the latest WordPress (5.3). Thanks for the development!

Still great!

Import attachments from another WordPress blog using a WXR file.

Aesqe

<p>“File Gallery” extends WordPress’ media (attachments) capabilities<br />
by adding a new gallery shortcode handler with templating support,<br />
a new interface for attachment handling when editing posts, and much<br />
more… Here’s the full list of features:</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>multiple galleries per post with custom attachment order</li>
<li>a flexible templating system (PHP, CSS, JS) – choose a different<br />
template for each gallery, even within the same post (4 templates<br />
included with plugin)</li>
<li>simple, easy to use UI with drag and drop sorting shows attachment<br />
thumbnails beneath text editor: everything attachments-related is on<br />
the same screen you’re editing your post on</li>
<li>fully integrated with the visual editor (tinyMCE) – click on the<br />
[gallery] placeholder image and change any option in the File<br />
Gallery metabox – changes will be applied instantly</li>
<li>settings page extends the default media settings page</li>
<li>attach copies of items from media library to current post (copies<br />
data only, not the file)</li>
<li>copy all attachments from another post</li>
<li>unattach (detach) items from current post</li>
<li>media tags = tag your attachments and then use those tags to choose<br />
which attachments you want to display in your gallery or to filter<br />
your media library items.</li>
<li>custom fields for attachments</li>
<li>gallery pagination</li>
<li>different background colors for items in media library depending<br />
on their status = completely unattached (white), attached to other<br />
posts (red), or attached to current post (yellow)</li>
<li>compatible with “WordPress Mobile Edition”, “Media Tags” and<br />
“WPML Multilingual CMS” plugins </li>
<li>basic caching of gallery output and frequent queries (transients)</li>
<li>please see the help file for complete list of features</li>
</ol>
<h3>More info</h3>
<p>This plugin uses icons from the awesome famfamfam Silk icon set by<br />
Mark James.<br />
“Silk” can be found at: http://famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/</p>
<p>Plugin settings are integrated into media settings page.</p>
<p>Help file is included, you’ll find it in the “help” subfolder.</p>
<h3>Translation Credits</h3>
<p>Hebrew:<br />
* <strong>Maor Barazany</strong> – http://www.maorb.info/</p>
<p>French:<br />
* <strong>Jean-Michel Meyer</strong> – http://www.li-an.fr/wpplugins/</p>
<p>Italian:<br />
* <strong>Pietro Palli</strong> – http://ppal.li/<br />
* <strong>Francesco Canovi</strong>  – http://www.blackstudio.it/</p>
<p>Arabic:<br />
* <strong>Wassem Mansour</strong> – http://www.sanapix.com</p>
<p>Lithuanian:<br />
* <strong>Vincent G</strong> – http://www.Host1Free.com</p>
<p>Polish:<br />
* <strong>Michał Budzik</strong> – http://www.mindborn.pl/en/</p>
<h3>Contributors</h3>
<p>Greg Haddow (https://github.com/shaddowgh/)<br />
Josh Eaton (https://github.com/jjeaton/)<br />
Andrea Baccega (https://github.com/vekexasia)</p>
<h3>Thanks goes out to…</h3>
<ul>
<li>All the contributors, translators, and people leaving comments,<br />
bug reports and suggestions on the official page and in the<br />
WordPress.org forums</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plans for the next versions</h3>
<p>sooner:</p>
<ul>
<li>manage media tags for all selected attachments</li>
<li>audio and video preview on editing screens</li>
</ul>
<p>later:</p>
<ul>
<li>phpdoc all the functions</li>
<li>more detailed description for file_gallery_shortcode function<br />
(what can be used in ‘orderby’, what do ‘columns’ mean) for beginner programmers</li>
<li>yoxview lightbox http://www.yellow-llama.com/yoxview-gallery-wordpress-plugin/</li>
</ul>
<p>maybe:</p>
<ul>
<li>show attachments’ Custom Fields in the main page of Media Library (custom column)</li>
<li>media library sort by file size or picture dimensions</li>
</ul>
<p>probably not, but who knows:</p>
<ul>
<li>watermarking – probably in another plugin…</li>
<li>when detaching / deleting attachments, just remove them from DOM<br />
without refreshing the entire file gallery box, but take care of<br />
originals and copies</li>
</ul>
<p>And thank you for reading this 🙂</p>
<p>aesqe</p>


File Gallery

File Gallery extends WordPress media (attachments) capabilities 
by adding a new gallery shortcode handler with templating support 
(and much more).

Attachment Importer vs File Gallery