WordPress.org(and Download): http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-from-server/
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I took the challenge: http://foolswisdom.com/media-library-and-wordpress-plugin-challenge/
WordPress 2.5 includes a new Media manager, However, It only knows about files which have been uploaded via the WordPress interface, Not files which have been uploaded via other means(eg, FTP).
So i present, “Add From Server” a WordPress plugin which allows you to browse the filesystem on the webserver and copy any files into the WordPress uploads system, Once “imported” it’ll be treated as any other uploaded file, and you can access it via the Media Library.
Changelog
1.0
- Initial Release
1.1
- Bug fix, Please note, An important bug has been fixed in this release, Any files previously added, and subsequently deleted will delete the file which was imported, the copy remains in the uploads folder however.
1.2
- Fixed filename oddness including old directory names
- Added a check to see if the file exists in the Media library allready
- Added a check to see if the file is allready in the uploads folder before importing, and if so, simply add it to the database, do not mash the filesystem
1.3
- French Translation
- Spanish Translation
- Select All
- Import files and do not attach to any specific post (Causes it to not appear in the gallery)
1.3.1
- Javascript Typo
Hi,
I have translated your .mo file into Persian. Let me know if you are interested in adding it to the package.
hi !
thanks for your work !!
i added your plugin (to wordpress 2.6) but it says the files are copied, but in fact there not.
all necessary rights are set on folders. the names of my copied images appear in the media library but without any picture. when inserting it into article, there no picture either.
do you have any clue ?
thanks a lot !
max
It could be a known bug thats affecting you, Which i believe is fixed in the 2.0 release, The 2.0 release however currently requires WordPress 2.7+
Can you check the /uploads/2008/11/ folder, And see if the images are copied there, And that the thumbnails have been created?
thanks for your quick answer !
yes i’ve checked that no pictures are created under uploads/2008/11…. :(
i didn’t know wordpress was available in 2.7 version, is it ?
so you advice me to wait for the next version ? :)
thank you
i am afraid i have to confirm that it doesn’t work with wordpress 2.7 beta2…….
what a pity!
thanks the same!!!
Hi there, I recently moved an old Blogger blog over to Wordpress. I have lots of images that I realise weren’t copied over using the built in Wordpress function. I had manually copied them all to the uploads folder, and sorted them into more folders by date (e.g. uploads/2005/10 etc) to match the Wordpress method. They weren’t showing up in my Media Library until I found your fantastic plugin.
I’ve just tested it on the first batch of images and like you said it doesn’t copy images already there but takes the file’s url as the date so I have items in the media library for each month (not too worried about individual days atm but I’ve yet to look at your other plugin “dpost-uploads”.
There’s a problem, however: It seems to have taken the full url from the server for the image, so rather than -
http://mywebsite.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2005/10/image.jpg
It is using -
http://mywebsite.co.uk/blog//home/username/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/home/username/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/2005/10/image.jpg
The result is that the links in the media library are broken and I assume they will be when I update the posts that use on those images.
Any help you can give would be appreciated.
That problem appears to be related to certain hosting setups, I hope version 2.0 (WP 2.7+ only) will fix that..
But as for fixing it in the older version of the plugin, You can try removing line 162: (realpath)
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/add-from-server/tags/1.4/add-from-server.php#L162
and see if that fixes it, There was a similar problem in core WP’s uploader at one stage
So change it from:
foreach($files as $file){ $file = realpath($file); $id = frmsvr_handle_file($file, $gallery);to:
foreach($files as $file){ $id = frmsvr_handle_file($file, $gallery);Hi Dion, thanks for the speedy reply! I’m afraid it didn’t work (assuming I amended it correctly). If this is a quirk of my hosting setup then I’ll guess I’ll live with it, but thanks for your suggestion. I think I’ll just amend the links in my posts now and then to convert them all over to the Wordpress uploads folder, and not worry about being able to see them in the Media Gallery since they’re old posts anyway.
Still, I will keep one eye on your blog. Thanks again=)
Hi !
Your plugin is great but there is a hudge problem : you can browse the whole file system, even the files that are out of the www directory. This can be a security problem on shared hosting environement.
I edited add-from-server.php so that you can set an optional root folder in your wp-config.php to prevent users from browsing out of this folder :
// Root path for Add From Server plugin
define(‘FRMSVR_ROOT’, dirname(__FILE__).’/wp-content/uploads/’);
I also removed the “Parent folder” link if the current folder is the root.
Here is the diff :
[DD32 Edit: The diff is too large to post, If you'd like to follow up with a link to a diff hosted somewhere, that'd be good, See my comment in reply - also note, It'll be non-compatible with version 2.0 due out in the near future when WP 2.7 is released]
Hi Nicolas,
I’ve decided against implmenting your suggestions, The Plugin is designed to allow access to the filesystem of the server, If the webhost has insecure permissions (Like many slack shared hosts), Then that is not my problem, Its the hosts problem to give their customers better security/privacy, One of the reasons that mass-deface attacks can take place is because of shared hosts with slack filesystem permissions.
So in short: I see it as a Hosters security problem, which THEY need to fix, Its not a security issue for the plugin. My plugin does nothing special/out of the ordinary than any other PHP script, so its not like the plugin purposely bypasses hosts security measures.
The problem is not only the security but if you add a file that is out of your www directory you won’t be able to access it via the browser…
By the way, my modifications do not affect the way the plugin works since you do not define FRMSVR_ROOT, except for the “parent folder” link at filesystem root.
Here is my diff for version 1.4 : http://n.bernier.free.fr/divers/add-from-server.php.diff
You should be able to access files that are outside of the www directory, As the file is copied to the WordPress uploads folder upon adding (Unless it allready exists within the WordPress uploads folder).
I understand that it doesnt affect the functionality of the plugin, and on furthur thought, Ignoring the ’security’ issues, I can see that some users might like to make a certain folder their ‘root’ folder for situations where the path is long(like some shared hosts), I might actually add some functionality along those lines to 2.0, But no promises :)
this “hack: would be interesting only for wpmu users, I guess, as tehre are a multitude of blogs hosted within one instance of wpmu… but as free blogs rarely come with the ability for FTP upload files, this is of limited use…
hi there.
I gave your 2.0 alpha version whirl, and it works perfectly for me.
There is only one thing though, if you could add that this would be fabuluos:
could your plugin also execute all actions/filters that are executed when a file is uploaded through the normal media interface?
i.e. I have several plugins that do affect uploaded files as resizing them to a certain size, changing their names if spaces, dashes and underscores appear in the filename, etc.
I’ll look into it.
I’m not too sure of which hooks wouldn’t be firing, If you’ve got examples of plugins which are affected, that’d be greatly appreciated.
hey, this plugin is not firing: h**p://dev.huiz.net/2008/10/04/plugin-resize-at-upload-english/ at least that’s the only one I can see not working right now. The renaming of the files does work. I am using h**p://pixline.net/wordpress-plugins/upload-plus/en/ for the renaming.
I tried to destroy my links so my comment doesn’t get caught as spam.
WordPress is smart, it detects you attempting to bypass the comment link-number filter..
Thanks for the plugin, i’ll look into the hooks it uses and see what i can manage :)
This plugin is awesome! I just noticed 2.0 was released with WP 2.7. Is there a changelog for 2.0? I’d love to see what’s new.
Thanks for your hard work!
this plugin saved me from a lotta work
thanks!
I really love your plugin… amazing, I had issues to start with but now it seems to be working with the recent update…. ISSUE: When I click import it takes me away from the back-end of Wordpress… with no way back (other than reloading your website). Would be nice to have a link back to the Media tab.
Seems to work perfectly fine for me..
Oh, I think i see what you were referring to.. That’ll be fixed in the next release :) Cheers.
I’m having problems with some .flv files I’m trying to add. They don’t appear to get the MIME type set when I use Add From Server. This is causing trouble for the theme I’m using as it is looking for the MIME type to display the attached video.
I’m not sure if this is something with your plugin or not though. The file I’m trying to upload is larger than the max size allowed on my server. I had FTPd the file to my server and then was hoping to use Add From Server to pull it into WordPress.
Thanks!
To follow-up, I setup a test server and I can confirm that when I use the WP upload functionality, the MIME type is set properly (application\octet-stream) for the .flv files but when I use Add From Server, it is blank.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Not a clue, I thought the mimetypes were being handled the same as WP does.. But i’ll look into it tomorrow and get back to you :)
Mime-types are working as expected for me with the latest version of the Plugin.. So not sure why its not working for you, I use the exact same WP function call for getting the mimetype that WordPress uses..
Interesting. I’ll have to poke it with a stick a little more and see if I can find some sort of an error coming out of Wordpress.
Didn’t work for me, which is a shame! The import worked ok, but the paths it generated to embed the images in my blog were all waaay off. For example if a file was in a folder called /portfolio/images/image1.jpg, the path it ended up trying to find the image at was /uploads/2009/01/image.jpg
Maybe just a bug with my install?
Quite possibly because you’ve mis-interprated the usage of the plugin.
The plugin is designed to import files from elsewhere on the server into the WordPress uploads, it copies the file to the uploads folder, it does NOT continue to refer to the old location of the image.
Greetings Dion,
Since I’m using WP 2.6.1, I’ve just installed your 1.4 version. When I’m in the Add Media window and try selecting multiple files that I’d like to add, I’m getting the following error:
Fatal error: Function name must be a string in /vhost/vhost8/g/s/c/my-domain-name/www/wp-content/plugins/add-from-server/add-from-server.php on line 218
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Looking at the source, That error condition would be hit if you’re files are not readable by WordPress/PHP or your uploads folder is not writable by the server.
As a work around, You can change line 218 of 1.4 to line 199 of the latest version.
It’s not working for me – I’m running 2.7 and whnever I activate and try to access add from server I get this: “Cannot load add-from-server.”
Are you accessing it from the Plugins page or the Menu?
Are you running any non-standard WordPress Admin themes? Or any plugins which mess with the menu?
tres smart. is there any way to ‘add-from-to-server’ by that I mean move something from server to another dir/folder on the SAME server that IS NOT /wp-content/uploads/MM/ (where MM is month, my current upload configuration).
I’d like to add-from-server some specific content (mp3s, flvs) to non-calendar folders, like /wp-content/uploads/mp3s/ etc. and have that content accessible via the Media Library. Basically just trying to get away from certain media being in calendar folders. is this possible?
Brilliant! thanks for this useful plugin.
(I’m on WP 2.7.1 and PHP 5.2.x and everything is smooooooth)
No, However:
If you create the /uploads/mp3s/ folder, and manually move the files into that folder, and then import using Add From Server, It’ll add it to the media library, and the files will stay put.
Add From Server only copies them if the original exists outside of the uploads folder (it cares not for the month folders)
Ahhh! Interesting tweak, I like it!
Have a localhost running and just tested this, works like a charm! Brilliant stuff DD32!
hi DD32, I’ve ran into something of a snag. On my localhost everything works fine, but on my global site my added-from-server files, which are currently stored in a /covers/ folder in the wp-contents/uploads directory, are showing up in the Media Library blank, as empty JPEGs in my current situation. If I ‘view’ the file the source code shows the following:
wp-content/uploads/2009/02/image.jpg
it’s looking for the file in the year-month folders!
however the plugin did properly create thumbnails of the image in its folder:
wp-content/uploads/covers/image-150×19.jpg
but the image isn’t viewing in the Media Library! Very strange. Both my localhost and global are PHP 5.2.5 and WP 2.7.1
Any advice? On my localhost all is smooth, on global site it’s snagged. I’ve deleted the plugin and gone from scratch, the situation is recreated every time.
thanks!
Sounds odd… I have to admit, I dont actually use the plugin myself very often, I’ll have to do some testing for you and see if theres any bugs in that code branch..
thanks DD32, I have a lot of use for this given how I keep files on my server.
I did just realize a mistake on my part, my global site is only running PHP 4.4.9, whereas my localhost is on 5.2.5 – I don’t know if this has any effect on your plugin, I’m sure you might be able to answer that.
I think my host can switch back and forth between PHP versions; I’ll write them to confirm this, then test the plugin again to see if its the PHP version.
Clearly it might be more complicated than I thought.
I don’t think it’ll be the fault of the PHP version, But if it is, I’ll have to take that into consideration.
Is your local test server linux or windows?
My localhost is WinXP running xampplite for Apache/MySQL/PHP
I am getting the following error when try to Import media:
Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /home/content/b/r/t/brtutor/html/wp-content/plugins/add-from-server/add-from-server.php on line 136
I am using the latest version of WP and the Add-From-Server plugin.
Looks like you’ve got an error with your upload directory, wp-content/uploads/ is probably not writable by the server i’d say.
Does the standard WordPress uploader work?
I can release an update for it to correct that error condition, But to be honest, i’m not going to bother right now.. I’ll see if any other conditions need checking next week. If you can fix the underlying error with your server, then the plugin should skip that error condition check.
The standard WP uploader did not work – I also made sure the directory was 777 and it was and it still didn’t work.
Here is the solution –
Goto Settings -> miscellaneous
In “Store uploads in this folder” I for some reason had it set to “/videos” and it needed to changed to the default of “wp-content/uploads”
Just to be helpful, it would be cool in your code to tell the user to check that setting.
Except it doesnt matter what thats set to, as long as its set to something valid.
/videos isnt a valid path that would be useable on your server.. ‘videos’ without the slash would’ve worked however.
Yup, I figured that out. I just named it “videos” and that worked.
I wish there was a quick way to index all my media on a web page right after I upload new media to “video”. It still a pretty manual process to create the hyperlinks to the videos after I upload them to the server.
I find your plugin very useful, but have just upgraded to Wordpress 2.8.5, and now it no longer works…. Any suggestions to get it working again?
Running into the same issue, also running on the 2.8.5 release of WP. When I try the wp-admin/media-new.php?page=add-from-server function, I get the error “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” Guessing something in the 2.8.5 security updates is blocking the plugin again.
Starting from wordpress 2.8.4, WordPress no longer allows “Unfiltered Uploads” that meaning, That uploads may only be of a small set of “valid” upload types.. (And Admins must install a plugin to allow other types of files..)
See http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10692 for info on why..
The solution to re-enable it is to add this to your wp-config.php file:
define(‘ALLOW_UNFILTERED_UPLOADS’, true);
While i wasnt planning on releasing an update for this, I am going to release another version shortly, There is a huge but however, It’ll allow any user who can upload files to have access to it.. which is not what some people will want, But until the next major release, thats what i’ll be doing.
Version 2.2 should be showing up in the next few hours for most people.
Auto-upgrade has hosed my dashboard:
“Warning: include(inc/class.dd32.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/26/d89912342/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/add-from-server/add-from-server.php on line 36
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘inc/class.dd32.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php5′) in /homepages/26/d89912342/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/add-from-server/add-from-server.php on line 36
Fatal error: Class ‘DD32′ not found in /homepages/26/d89912342/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/add-from-server/add-from-server.php on line 51″
Yep, Sorry about that, Supid wordpress.org package manager screwed up. 2.2.1 was released shortly thereafter, but might be delayed..
No harm done. Just deleted the plugin, then cleared my page cache. Will reinstall again when I really need it.
I would like “move” the file ( delete the file in the orignal folder after copy it to /upload folder .
Can I change the plug-in ? how ?
Thanks very much
If the uploaded file exists within the uploads folder to start with, it’ll simply be added as is. If it exists outside of the uploads directory, it will be copied there. Sorry, but i cant help explain where to change it to move instead of copying right this instant – my only suggestion is to upload to the uploads directory, and then import.
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Hi
Thanks for the plugin! I’m having a problem using it with m4b files tho and get this message:
“Walk One – Clip_1.m4b was not imported due to an error: File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another.”
Anything you can do?
Luke
See this comment above: http://dd32.id.au/wordpress-plugins/add-from-server/#comment-10936
Its the WordPress security kicking in. WordPress 3.0 will bring more filetypes i believe.. Whitelisting sucks, but its unfortunately thebest way to be secure :(
See: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/12717 – Add MP4 Audio Book format(.m4b) for uploads, Fix order of mimetypes. props demetris. fixes #11864
Hi Dion.
Just tried the plugin and it works great. I was wondering if there is a way to set it to watch folder automaticly and import new files when they are added.
Hi, I’ve just been looking at this plugin and found that the lack of images in the list of images makes it difficult to know what the image is.
So I’ve just added a little hack to show the image in the image list (scaled down with html).
Not sure where to post the code, or if your interested in adding it to this plugin.
Thanx,,