Ben Byrne

kenjigarland

Xavier Serrano

<p>Media Deduper will find and eliminate duplicate images and attachments from your WordPress media library. After installing, you’ll have a new “Manage Duplicates” option in your Media section.</p>
<p>Before Media Deduper can identify duplicate assets, it will build an index of all the files in your media library, which can take some time. Once that’s done, however, Media Deduper automatically adds new uploads to its index, so you shouldn’t have to generate the index again.</p>
<p><strong>Need faster indexing? <a href="https://www.mediadeduper.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check out Media Deduper Pro</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Once up and running, Media Deduper provides you with a “Manage Duplicates” page listing all of your duplicate media files. The list makes it easy to see and delete duplicate files: delete one and its twin will disappear from the list because it’s then no longer a duplicate. Easy! By default, the list is sorted by file size, so you can focus on deleting the files that will free up the most space.</p>
<p><strong>Use this plugin at your own risk. The plugin developers are not responsible for any lost data or site issues as a result of using this plugin.</strong></p>
<p>Media Deduper comes with a “Smart Delete” option that prevents a post’s Featured Image from being deleted, even if that image is found to be a duplicate elsewhere on the site.</p>
<p>If a post has a featured image that’s a duplicate file, Smart Delete will re-assign that post’s image to an already-in-use copy of the image before deleting the duplicate so that the post’s appearance is unaffected. This feature only tracks Featured Images, and not images used in galleries, post bodies, shortcodes, meta fields, or anywhere else.</p>
<p><strong>Looking for more features? <a href="https://www.mediadeduper.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Deduper Pro</a> includes features for image fields from several popular plugins as well.</strong></p>
<p>Note that duplicate identification is based on the data of the files themselves, not any titles, captions or other metadata you may have provided in the WordPress admin.</p>
<p>Media Deduper can differentiate between 1.) media items that are duplicates because the media files they link to have the same data and 2.) those that actually point to the same data file, which can happen with a plugin like WP Job Manager or Duplicate Post.</p>
<p>As with any plugin that can perform destructive operations on your database and/or files, using Media Deduper can result in permanent data loss if you’re not careful. <strong>Back up your data before you try out Media Deduper! Please!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Use this plugin at your own risk. The plugin developers are not responsible for any lost data or site issues as a result of using this plugin.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Need more support? <a href="https://www.mediadeduper.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Deduper Pro</a> includes dedicated support from Cornershop Creative.</strong></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Media Deduper requires PHP 7.0 or later.</p>


Media Deduper

Save disk space and bring some order to the chaos of your media library by removing and preventing duplicate files.

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.

Media Deduper vs Attachment Importer