WordPress Flash Uploader
This is the new website for the WordPress Flash Uploader (WFU).
The WordPress Flash Uploader is a replacement of the integrated Flash Uploader with a couple of really nice enhancements.
So why using WFU:
- The main reason: The internal flash uploader does not work on your server!
WFU works on many more systems because it uses the TWG Flash Uploader which has many internal workarounds for most known problems. I actually started this wrapper because the internal uploader did not work on any of my systems. - WFU checks your system and help you to get it running.
- You can manage your whole word press installation with it. You can create, rename, delete and manage your files and folders. You can even view and edit files directly on the server!
- WFU can synchronize the upload folder with the media library with the menu item ‘Sync Media Library’. So you can even upload images with FTP and import them to your media library. This can be even used without using WFU.
- WFU can resize your original images after the upload.
- You can enable E-Mail notification.
- And everything you can do with the TWG Flash Uploader
the download can be found here: www.tinywebgallery.com/blog/wfu/download-wfu
Stay tuned.
Michael
I have to admit, how do I “authenticate”?
“You are trying to use the TWG Upload Flash without authentication, the server login failed, expired or the configuration could not be found!”
I don’t see where to do this in the Settings. Am I blind?
The Wiki says “By default the user is logged in automatically and you can use the TWG Flash Uploader right away.
The tfu_config.php is the main configuration file.
There are 2 interesting settings you should look at first:
$login – you can implement your own authentification by setting this flag! If you use “auth” a login screen appears
$folder – The folder where your uploads will be saved!”
Is this something I should do if I am getting the error? Thanks
Hi,
The flash cannot access its configuration file on the server. Please read howto 1 of the TFU FAQ.
There I have explained how to solve this.
Best, Michael
Hi there!
First I like to thank you for that really great plugin… I just have one tiny question: is it possible to configure the plugin in a way that it does NOT change the filenames during upload? I needed to upload language files for my theme (“de_DE.po” and “de_DE.po”) and something curious happend: after the upload they were all spelled with lowercase letters (“de_de.po” instead of “de_DE.po”) – and of course the language files were ignored by the theme…
Rename doesn’t work either, changing the case did not result in changes of the files…
Can anybody use capital letters with that plugin?
Any help really appreciated!
Thanks and regards,
Stefan
Sure. You have to disable the normalization of filenames. This is done by default because WordPress cannot handle special characters.
You can disable this in the configuration of WFU.
Best, Michael
@TinyWebGallery
Thanks a lot, it did not come to my mind to look for “normalization”…
Due to the fact that the “normalize” section has comments in wfu-settings.php I was not able to change the setting via the web configuration.
Changing wordpress-flash-uploader.php and replace the “false” on normalize to “true” did not help either, I think there exist some other place where config is stored…
I added three comment lines on tfu_upload.php to hard-coded disable the normalization and that did it – on uploads only of course… rename still does not work… But I can live with that…
So.. no idea what I did wrong but I found an (ugly) way
Regards,
Stefan
In wordpress-flash-uploader.php you only changed the default that is changed in the database.
The right file would then be a custom configuration file like explained in the advanced section. The value is actually set in my_tfu_config.php which sets the settings for wordpress.
I don’t know what you mean with rename. But if you disable the normalization at the right place this should work fine as well.
- Michael
Hi.
I need to know whether this plugin bypasses the wordpress file size limitations. Is it therefore useful to upload large audio/video files?
You still have the limitations of your server. See the howtos of TFU how you can increase this values.
Hey, I love the Sync feature, but every time I turn on Autosyncing, my files get deleted from their folders.
Anybody run into this before?
Does the sync work when you normal start it through the menu?
Because the sync does NOT have any “unlink” command (the delete in php). So it is very strange that the files get removed by the synch itself.
I like to thank you for that great plugin
I have two questions about
1. Can I set the Swedish language interface to the constantly
2. is there a module as a supplement to download files or download manager that files available for publication in the POST or PAGES
Third thing is I had the same problem after the automatic synchronization of files were removed from the library media Thanks
Hi,
1. yes – add the ?lang=se in the free text field of the advanced configuration. There I have documented this as well
2. ?
3. Normal synch works but automatic not? The files are still in the media folders?
Best, Michael
I’m having a problem with your plugin. The sync doesn’t work at all. Even the Auto sync. (And yes, I read the readme and added the define to the wp-config.php file.) I’m wondering if it might be related to the “condition” of the blog.
I’m in the process of moving my blog from wordpress.com to a site where I have full control. (I’m the admin on the box and have root access.) The problem is, right now DNS is still pointing to my wordpress.com blog, so I’m working off the IP address. (There’s no DNS on this server at all right now.)
Could that cause this problem?
When I run sync, nothing happens. No errors on the screen. No completion message. Your plugin sees all the files. They’re in the uploads dir by month. I want to keep them the same so the links will (hopefully) work.
(I’m having a problem with Jetpack as well. When I try to activate it it says the site isn’t reachable. I assume that will be fixed when the site’s DNS is working and the name virtual host is resolving.)
You still have the problem?
I have installed the plugin and I have uploaded one image just for test run. I cannot figure out how to get the photo in the Media Library ie (uploads directory). It defaults to a sub folder and does not appear in the Library.
Is there a setting where I can set the destination of the upload?
WFU uses the default upload directory of WordPress.
You can set the pattern in the settings of WordPress.
By default it is year/month.
Which version of WordPress do you use?
I am using 3.4.2. I would like the images to upload to the media library. I understand this to be the wp-content/uploads directory. My image uploaded to directory wp-content/uploads/10. When I view the media library the image does not show there.
How do I access the image I uploaded?
I do not understand “pattern settings of WordPress.
In settings -> Miscellaneous Settings you
can set the upload directory + if it is organized in year/month.
your folder /uploads/10
is not a valid Worpdress upload dir.
You either use upload and remove the year/month setting or you put your immages e.g. in uploads/2012/10
Then you should be able to synch your uploaded images with the wp synch and then you should also see it in the media library.
Hi, first congrats for this exelent plugin! I need to ask you a question
In my webpage i want to use it like an ftp client, so when the user log in, the flash uploader locate the folder for that user. To resume, can i select the root folder in mi computer? Ex i have the page in the Disk C and i have the folders in the Disk D, and every user has his own folder.
From now on, so much thx!
you can configure wfu that each user gets his own directory. Check the master mode and if this is not flexible enough read the advanced section. But the path has to be relative and not c and d. Use symbolic links to link the drives.
I have re-installed the plug in and it is working fine now. However, when I synced the files I managed to wipe out all of the previously uploaded images. It cleaned out the flash up-loader and image library.
Can you give me clue as to how I managed to do that so I don’t do it again?
Hi,
so what is the status. After a reinstall everything works fine.
But first your images got removed?
Can you give me your wp version and the settings for the upload path and the organization of the folders (my month year?)
I was able to upload images after the second install. After the second install I synced the files and what ever I did wiped all the images out of the flash up loader and the media library.
I using version 3.4.2, and the files are arranged month- and year-based folders. The upload path is wp-content/uploads.
It is currently putting files in uploads/year/month ie uploads/2012/10.
One of the options in sync is: Synchronize Media Library: Import and Remove.
Is this option what deleted all my images?
Thanks for the details. I try to reproduce your problem. It seems this is system dependent.
If you have a test installation it would be great if I can get access to it.
Please contact my by e-mail.
Best, Michael
I have tested with 3.4.2 again with your settings
- files are arranged month- and year-based
- upload folder is empty which defaults to wp-content/uploads
I was uploading with the Flash where the files where synced right away. Then I added a few files directly to this folder and they where shown properly on the sync page. After “Synchronize Media Library” the thumbnails where created and shown in the media library.
Remove is btw. not deleting any files in your upload folder. It does only remove entries from the WordPress db where no files are in the upload folder anymore.
So it seems I cannot reproduce the problem on my system. So if you have a test system where you have the same behavior. Please let me know.
Best, Michael
Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I do not have a test site set up.
Now I get the following error msg when I try and load “Synchronize Media Library”. It will not load:
FastCGI Error
The FastCGI Handler was unable to process the request.
Error Details:
The FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout
Error Number: 258 (0×80070102).
Error Description: The wait operation timed out.
HTTP Error 500 – Server Error.
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Give me your email address, please.
Lewis
Have you changed anything.
Like do you use 2.16.3 already? Because there I added a timeout which my cause a problem on your IIS?
My e-mail is on the contact page:
http://www.tinywebgallery.com/en/about.php
Best, Michael
I am running 2.16.4 and I have not changed anything.
Lewis
If you go to the settings page. Have you set a timeout there?
I’m wondering that you have a different behaviour between 2.16.2 and 2.16.4. There only the timeout is the difference which can be enabled/configured in 2.16.4.
I just don’t understand why images are deleted. Because I actually don’t delete any images at all. The only thing could be is that I call a wordpress function that does this at a special case I have not found yet.
Best, Michael
Hello,
I was so excited to come across your plugin! I can’t believe functionality like this is not in WordPress automatically!
I was able to use the upload function just fine, however, when I “Synchronized Media Library”, ALL my upload files were DELETED – all files in all folders under Upload, completely gone. I refreshed, looked on ftp, etc etc. I had to reload ALL uploaded files. Can you please help me understand what’s going on? I want to use the useful features in this plugin but I can not if this will happen again…. We are on wp 3.4.2.
Hi, this was reported to me a couple of month ago but we could not figure out the problem.
The “problem” is that my plugin does not delete (unlink) any files. It seems to me that using the api does trigger this somehow.
Are you already on production or can you provide my a test system where I can debug?
Best, Michael
First – THANK you for the fast response! We do have a test system – do you have an email address that I can send you details?
You can find my contact details here:
http://www.tinywebgallery.com/en/about.php
Best, Michael
After the site did the auto sync all the images on the site is gone, how do I get them back??
You have to use a backup.
The sync does actually not delete any files. I only uses the WordPress functions for the library. But on a very few systems this seems to remove the images.
Is this reproduce able? Because I never had this problem and would like to debug this on a system where this happens.
Can you give me system details? WordPress version, php version, database version? Which hoster do you use?
Your plugin just destroyed my uploads folder. The sequence of events: 1. download and install WordPress Flash Uploader 2. activate plugin 3. click “sync media library” under media settings 4. almost have a fucking heart attack
Thank god I have auto backups…we could have had hundreds of hours of work destroyed. You should pull this from the repository until you figure it out because this is dangerous…
Hi,
Thanks getting back to me. This seems to happen only on 1 of 10 000 systems.
Have you read the installation instructions?
‘Please make a backup of your images when you use the synch the first time! On some systems WordPress does remove the images once. If you have this problem please contact me to fix this because it is not reproduceable on my systems.’
The plugin uses the WordPress functions to modify the media library. It actually does NOT delete any files. This does happen from wordpress itself but is somehow triggered by the synch. Do you have a test system where this is reproducable?
Can you give me you exact wordpress, php, database version? Maybe I’m able to reproduce it then.
And how is your uploads folder structured?
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Are you maybe using wordpress 3.4.x? There seems to be a change:
http://www.wphub.com/fix-auto-thumbnail-problem-wordpress/
I’ll try to reproduce the issue with version 3.4.
Hi i really need your answer
If i use this script, can all members upload picture and have a album on wordpress site? thank you
yes – you can configure the uploader like that.
But the album is something different. You can upload to different folders.
You can use something like TinyWebGallery then to display the images.
@TinyWebGallery
i’m fvcking confuse sir,
what script that all member can upload pictures, and their album are showing on the front pages, and the other features is the member can upload files, and then Download too…
I would use the uploader for upload and TinyWebGallery integrated with http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinywebgallery-wrapper/
TinyWebGallery has the same uploader included but here it depends if you like to manage the users in WordPress or in TinyWebGallery.
Hi, and thanks for this useful plugin.
Unluckily I cannot use the sync media library part for my purpose, since I cannot modify the timeout limit of my server (30 sec.) and I would have more than 1000 pictures to syncronize (I moved to wordpress from cutenews).
Of course I can’t hack your plugin, but if I was a php programmer I would use the extension option to scan for, as example, all pictures that end with “1.jpg” (*1.jpg), or I would scan first for pictures with 1 character, then 2 characters…this just to select a subpart of the thousands of pictures I have to synchronize. Is it so difficult?
I realize it scanning for gif pictures first and then jpeg…of course jpg images are too many…
Synching gifs pictures I realize that there’s an issue with the plugin: it appends the wrong url in media library. This is probably because I need to use a different folder from the default one…but for example a similar plugin, CIT Media Sync, does the work well. But I can’t use that plugin because I need to click (and wait…) for every file…
Ok, thanks for your attention and bye!
Hi,
scanning only a few images should actually not be a problem. Simply counting would be enough.
I plan to do this for version 3.0.
I’ll also look into the gif issue.
The plugin uses the default wordpress functions to add images to the library.
Which version of WP do you use?
Best, Michael
Hi, and thanks for your fast reply. I use the lastest wp version, 3.5.1. I’m glad you are planning to introduce the counting feature in the next version,
The problem with my upload folder was that my cutenews blog from where I migrated to wordpress contained already too many images so I decided to keep them there and also use the same one for new uploads. And to import cutenews posts and keep the images visible in posts, I needed to keep it outside the wordpress path. Now my blog is like address.org/wordpress, while my upload folder is address.org/cutenews/data/upimages. So I had to modify wp media settings in “../cutenews/data/upimages” as first field (instead of “wp-content/uploads”) and “/cutenews/data/upimages” as full url instead of leaving the field empty as default. The result with your plugin is that the synched files have a (wrong) address like “/cutenews/data/upimages//membri/address/cutenews/data/upimages/filename.gif”, so the absolute path is appended to the right folder. I had to change them manually with “search&replace” plugin.
Anyway, thanks again for your attention!
I’ll take a look at this.
But theres should not be a difference for gif or jpg.
Hi…there’s not a gif problem…gif and jpg are the same. I only used gifs because I can filter them by extension in your plugin settings.
That is what I thought. I’ll take a look at this when I implement the automatic reload after a certain time to get around the php timeout limit.
I don’t see an issue with gif. Be careful if you use a different folder than the default one because changing this setting was removed in one of the latest version of WordPress!