Freemius

janwyl

<p>A ‘Download’ option is added to both List and Grid modes in the Media Library.<br />
Choose the attachments you want to export, click the button, and a zip file of those attachments is created that you can then download.</p>
<h4>Selecting for download in List mode</h4>
<p>In List mode the ‘Download’ option appears in the Bulk Actions dropdown. Select the attachments by checking the checkboxes, choose ‘Download’ in the dropdown, then click ‘Apply’.</p>
<h4>Selecting for download in Grid mode</h4>
<p>In Grid mode, first click the ‘Bulk Select’ button. Then click on the attachments you want to download and hit the ‘Download’ button.</p>
<h4>Download options</h4>
<p>Before the zip file is created, you’ll see a) how many files will be downloaded, and b) how big the uncompressed files are.<br />
By default, you are also given the option to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Include or exclude image intermediate sizes.</li>
<li>Include in your download the folder structure you use in your uploads folder (e.g. year/month) or have all files downloaded in a single folder.</li>
</ul>
<p>You can set a maximum (uncompressed) file size to be downloaded in the plugin settings, found in Settings > Media.</p>
<p>By default, zip files are automatically removed in 1 – 2 hours, or you can delete them yourself.</p>
<p>If you want to keep the download files inaccessible to others, you can use the ‘Make downloads secure’ option in Settings > Media.<br />
This creates a .htaccess file in the folder where the download zip files are kept, preventing direct access.</p>
<p>You can also choose to encrypt and password-protect the zip files. However please note that in most cases the standard Windows zip facility<br />
will not be able to open the files – you will need to use something like 7-Zip instead.</p>
<p>However there’s no point in using this feature or the .htaccess one unless you also have some means of preventing direct access to the attachments<br />
themselves in the Uploads folder.</p>
<h3>1.3.9</h3>
<p>Release date: 7 July 2024</p>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance: Added FAQ on Google Chrome blocking downloads.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.8</h4>
<p>Release date: 10 December 2023</p>
<ul>
<li>Enhancement: Add filters to allow management of which images sizes to include in download.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Modify popup to allow download directly without navigation to all downloads screen.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.7</h4>
<p>Release date: 6 July 2023</p>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance: Update Freemius SDK</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.6</h4>
<p>Release date: 7 November 2022</p>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix: Fix PHP deprecation warning converting false to array</li>
<li>Maintenance: Update Freemius SDK</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.5</h4>
<p>Release date: 1 March 2022</p>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance: Update Freemius SDK</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.4</h4>
<p>Release date: 24 January 2022</p>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix: Fix sprintf format typo causing PHP8.0 error</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.3</h4>
<p>Release date: 24 January 2022</p>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance: Update Freemius SDK</li>
<li>Maintenance: Fix deprecated warning for PHP8.0</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.2</h4>
<p>Release date: 18 May 2021</p>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix: Workaround for Gutenberg plugin issue <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/31753" rel="nofollow ugc">#31753</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.1</h4>
<p>Release date: 4 January 2021</p>
<ul>
<li>Enhancement: Enable bulk downloading for the Media Library Grid mode.</li>
<li>Maintenance: Refactoring code into a plugin class.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.0</h4>
<p>Release date: 6 December 2020</p>
<ul>
<li>Enhancement: Add option to disable auto-deletion of downloads.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Add option to encrypt and password-protect zip files. props to <a href="https://github.com/vfontjr" rel="nofollow ugc">@Victor</a>, <a href="http://www.joneswebdesigns.com" rel="nofollow ugc">@Walter</a></li>
<li>Maintenance: Change zip files location to within Uploads directory</li>
<li>Maintenance: Update Freemius SDK</li>
<li>Bug fix: Make compatibile with Formidable Forms Pro</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.4</h4>
<p>Release date: 12 September 2020</p>
<ul>
<li>Enhancement: Guidance added to Settings page and more notices added to help users.</li>
<li>Maintenance: Update Freemius SDK</li>
<li>Maintenance: Tidy up translation strings</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.3</h4>
<p>Release date: 19 October 2017</p>
<ul>
<li>Bug Fix: Prevent “Can’t use method return value” error for php < 5.5.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.2</h4>
<p>Release date: 22 July 2017</p>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance: Fix poor placement of file info data when popup is scrollable.</li>
<li>Maintenance: Update Admin Notice Manager class to latest version.</li>
<li>Maintenance: Add in request for rating.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.1</h4>
<p>Release date: 15 July 2017</p>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance: Delete ‘jabd_version’ option on uninstall.</li>
<li>Maintenance: Add in <a href="https://freemius.com/wordpress/insights/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius</a> functionality for feedback.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.0</h4>
<p>Release date: 25 June 2017</p>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance: Change the permissions for downloads so that they match the permissions for managing attachments generally.</li>
<li>Maintenance: Remove the filter jabd_user_can_download.</li>
<li>Bug fix: All download post statuses (including private) are now deleted automatically by cron.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.4</h4>
<p>Release date: 12 June 2017</p>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix: Properly include admin notice manager class.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.3</h4>
<p>Release date: 12 June 2017</p>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix: Remove warning when when adding new post.</li>
<li>Maintenance: Refactor admin notices.</li>
<li>Maintenance: Improve activate / deactivate / uninstall security.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.2</h4>
<p>Release date: 1 June 2017</p>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance: Added missing translation strings.</li>
<li>Bug fix: Disable download button on download posts in Bin.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.1</h4>
<p>Release date: 19 January 2017</p>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance: Add dismissable reminders that a) bulk download function is only available in list mode and<br />
b) media items per page can be changed using Screen Options.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.0</h4>
<p>Release date: 19 December 2016</p>
<ul>
<li>Enhancement: Give option to include intermediate sizes.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Give option to have all files in single folder in zip instead of replicating structure within uploads folder.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Setting to limit uncompressed download size. Also display file count and size info before download.</li>
<li>Maintenance: Fix undefined index notice on saving settings.</li>
<li>Maintenance: Remove options to ‘view’ or ‘preview’ a download as this just triggers a download.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.2</h4>
<p>Release date: 7 December 2016</p>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix: rewrite rules now flushed on activation to prevent 404 on attempted download </li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Initial version on WordPress.org plugin repository</li>
</ul>


Bulk Attachment Download

Great plugin! The WordPress plugin Bulk Attachment Download is the WordPress plugin you need if you want to save your time when you have to download specific images from your WordPress media library. Amazing! Thank you very much for this great plugin!

A perfect time saver

This plugin worked perfectly for me. No bug or error at all.

Works perfectly!

Bulk download selected media or attachment files from your Media Library as a zip file. Options include: a) Include / exclude intermediate image sizes …

Bogdan Bendziukov

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<h3>🌟 New in 1.7.x</h3>
<ul>
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</ul>
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<ul>
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</ul>
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<ul>
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Squeeze – Image Optimization & Compression, WEBP Conversion


Great plugin! I'd love webp support if possible.


Works great

Compress images in WordPress & convert to WebP — no API key, no quotas, no cloud. Unlimited local image optimizer; private browser-side compression.

Bulk Attachment Download vs Squeeze – Image Optimization & Compression, WEBP Conversion