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.

maennchen1.de

<p>This plugin easily displays the folders and files from a selected directory. It can be placed by shortcode with the parameters path and target in any post. Uploads must be done by a separate ftp program. No managing options.</p>
<ul>
<li>compatible up to PHP 8.3.20</li>
<li>need PHP extension <a href="http://php.net/mb_string" rel="nofollow ugc">mb_string</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>available optional shortcode parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li>path = directory path, starting by web root (default: wp-content/uploads/)</li>
<li>target = browser window name</li>
<li>sort = by name ASC/DESC (default: ASC)</li>
<li>sort-order = filename/filetype/ftime/filetime/foldertime (default: filename)</li>
<li>label = custom top level label</li>
<li>nosize = displays no file size</li>
<li>hidedirs = displays no folders, only files</li>
<li>filetype = (comma separated list) filter files by their extension</li>
<li>hidefiletype = (comma separated list) hide files with filetype</li>
<li>hidefilename = (comma separated list) hide named files and folders</li>
<li>noext = hide the file extensions</li>
<li>nobreadcrumb = hide breadcrumb / title</li>
<li>ftime = display file and folder modification date and time (standard = “1” or use date formatting like “Y-m-d H:i”), see <a href="http://php.net/date" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP date formatting</a></li>
<li>filetime = same as ftime, just for files</li>
<li>foldertime = same as ftime, just for folders</li>
</ul>
<p>(most of it can be combined together)</p>
<h4>shortcode examples</h4>
<ol>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>: <code>[m1dll]</code> </li>
<li>displays content of <code>your/foldername/here/</code>: <code>[m1dll path="your/foldername/here/"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>your/foldername/here/</code> and sort descending: <code>[m1dll path="your/foldername/here/" sort="DESC"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>your/foldername/here/</code>, open files in a new window: <code>[m1dll path="your/foldername/here/" target="_blank"]</code> </li>
<li>displays content of <code>your/foldername/here/</code>, change label ‘downloads’ to ‘our downloads’: <code>[m1dll path="your/foldername/here/" label="our downloads"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, displays no file size: <code>[m1dll nosize="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, displays no folders: <code>[m1dll hidedirs="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, displays only pdf- and docx-documents: <code>[m1dll filetype="pdf,docx"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, do not display pdf- and docx-documents: <code>[m1dll hidefiletype="pdf,docx"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, do not display file secret.txt and secret.docx: <code>[m1dll hidefilename="secret.txt,secret.docx"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, displays no file extensions: <code>[m1dll noext="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, displays no breadcrumb: <code>[m1dll nobreadcrumb="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, with file and folder time with own format <code>[m1dll ftime="Y-m-d, H:i"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, with file and folder date and time (standard from WordPress) <code>[m1dll ftime="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, with file and folder self formated date <code>[m1dll ftime="Y-m-d"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, with file date and time (standard from WordPress) <code>[m1dll filetime="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, with folder date and time (standard from WordPress) <code>[m1dll foldertime="1"]</code></li>
</ol>


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