Media Sync

1.4.7

• Replace loading of external script for purchasing Pro version with simple external link
• Tested for WordPress 6.7

1.4.6

• Minor maintenance adjustment to prepare promo banner for upcoming redesign
• Tested for WordPress 6.6.1

1.4.5

• Fix DOM IDs when scanning directories or files with special non-latin characters
• Bring back promo banner without remote fetch

1.4.4

• Decode post_title and guid in attachment data
• Tested for WordPress 6.5.5

1.4.3

• Disable fetching promo banner from remote origin in hopes of resolving 404 errors
• Load plugin only on admin pages
• Tested for WordPress 6.5.4
• Get proper error message from wp_insert_attachment function

1.4.2

• Fix enabling or disabling debugging option
• Fix various issues with paths on Windows servers
• Remove “Scan directory” option to simplify plugin maintenance and compatibility with Windows servers
• Tested for WordPress 6.5.3

1.4.1

• Fix deprecated warnings with PHP 8.1
• Increase required versions to WordPress 5.3 and PHP 7.1

1.4.0

• Add correct plugin version when loading assets and updated readme.txt.

1.3.3

• Fix detecting files that already in database when “Scan directory” option is used. Issue started in previous version (1.3.2).

1.3.2

• Fix handling file names with even rarer special characters that might have resulted in duplicate imports.

1.3.1

• Ignore optimized .webp versions of original images (e.g. .jpg.webp) and retina thumbnails (e.g. -100×100@2x.jpg) by default. It’s still possible to customize it with media_sync_filter_is_scan_object_ignored hook.

1.3.0

• New option to set custom Batch Size. This might help with errors due to server limits (e.g. max_execution_time).

1.2.9

• Fix selecting multiple files without clicking on checkbox (e.g. shift-select).
• Minor code cleanup.
• Update supported WordPress version to 6.2.

1.2.8

• Create a custom _msc record in wp_postmeta table to be able to differentiate files imported using this plugin. Could be useful to clean up the database later on.

1.2.7

• Extend plugin access to “Editor” and “Author” roles.

1.2.6

• If debugging is turned on, AJAX requests for import are now html which is rendered directly in UI.

1.2.5

• New filter hook (media_sync_filter_before_update_metadata) which can be used to customize how metadata is updated or to run additional actions after file import.

1.2.4

• Handle files with quotes (apostrophes) or other special characters in the file name.
• Continue importing other selected files if there was an error with some of the files.
• Show errors in UI instead of alert.

1.2.3

• Better error handling and fallback when finding mime type

1.2.2

• Fix meta data errors caused by invalid mime types

1.2.1

• Much better error handling while importing

1.2.0

• Optimized directory scanning to use less memory
• New option to turn on debugging for this plugin
• Changed parameters passed to media_sync_filter_is_scan_object_ignored hook function
• Now requires PHP 5.5

1.1.8

• Fix handling big (“-scaled.jpg”) images introduced in WordPress 5.3. These files will now be skipped and won’t be imported multiple times.
• Add handy “Re-scan” button.

1.1.7

• Fix issues when importing files containing special characters

1.1.6

• Slight improvements with error handling in JavaScript

1.1.5

• Always convert backslashes () to forward slashes (/) to fix various issues when using Windows Server.

1.1.4

• Important backslash () vs forward slash (/) fix for use on Windows Server.

1.1.3

• New option to set “Scan directory” in settings which will allow checking only certain sub directory.
• New hook function media_sync_filter_is_scan_object_ignored which can be used to overwrite which files are ignored by default or to just skip additional files.

1.1.2

• Fix Smart File Time on Windows server

1.1.1

• Reduce the maximum number of items to import per batch from 20 to 10.
  So batch sizes are now: 1 (importing 1 to 10 items); 5 (importing 11 to 100 items) or 10 (importing more than 100 items)

1.1.0

• [IMPORTANT] Date of imported Media Library items now defaults to the current date.
  But there are options to choose before importing and also a possibility to overwrite that using the custom hook.
• New options page with the option to disable and hide “Dry Run”.
• Fix Media Library filter that was showing all items when the filter didn’t find any result.

1.0.4

• Reduce the number of items to import per batch

1.0.3

• Support multisite network by changing required access capability from update_plugins to import

1.0.2

• Another fix for get_current_screen error

1.0.1

• Fix get_current_screen error

1.0.0

• New option to clean up Media Library from items that are missing actual files (using custom Media Library filter)
• New filter when scanning uploads directory which can help to show only files missing from Media Library

0.1.6

• Fix PHP short array syntax
• Update required PHP version to 5.4

0.1.5

• Date of imported Media Library item is now set based on file modification timestamp

0.1.4

• Add plugin localization
• Add Serbian translation

0.1.3

• Various improvements and fixes

0.1.2

• Fix sorting of directories and files
• Minor wording changes and code cleanup

0.1.1

• Fix error on activation

0.1.0

• Initial plugin features