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Media images directory and image-popups? (7 posts)

  1. Elkana
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Good evening everybody! I've imported my items from Nucleus but the images are gone. Now I want to manually add the images in the items like in http://www.elkana.nl/weblog/ (Nucleus) But I don't know where I should upload the images. Also I want to make them popup also like my Nucleus site.

    Does anyone know how I should do that? Thanks in advance.

  2. mercime
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Here's a video tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtY77Ci0gr0
    To make them pop up, you can install either or these plugins
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2-wordpress-plugin/
    or my personal favorite
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shadowbox-js/

  3. Elkana
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Hello Mercime, thank you for your replay. I know how I should insert the images now. But where do I have to upload all the images? 'Cause I don't want to manually upload them one by one. I've tried uploading one image and this one came in this map:

  4. /content/blogs.dir/1/files/2009/09
  5. . But I want to have all my images in one map like something as
  6. /content/media/images
  7. . And also one for other things like docs, mp3 and wmv. So then it would be:
  8. /content/media/images
  9. and
  10. /content/media/docs
  11. and so on. Can you tell me how I should do that?

    Also I've installed the shadowbox-plugin. I've heard from it, it's great!

  • mercime
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    I assumed that you were also able to import your images in your Nucleus migration to WordPress/MU. I've never used Nucleus CMS. Did you use any of the methods to migrate?
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#Nucleus_CMS

    WPMU is a multi-blog platform, it is natively set up to upload images and other materials in /wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/ and /content/blogs.dir/2/files/ etc. uploads per blog. Even in single WP, the limit is configuring to one folder in /wp-content/whatevername/ for whole installation without the per year or per month folder.

    One would have to create a plugin to set it up per your preferences. Or, at the very least, if you're the only one using the WPMU installation, manually create the images and docs directory and FTP upload all images and folders as you prefer and use absolute links to the images/docs in your posts or pages. Not intuitive nor safe if you have multiple users with multiple blogs.

  • Elkana
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    After I asked in this thread how I could do it the best I've used this one to migrate.
    I've set ok to the import of my files but I couldn't find them :s

    Do you think I can dump all the images in the /content/blogs.dir/1/files/2009/ and then insert the images like wp automatic did?

    P.s. Hmm... I even don't think I need the MU version of Wordpress but now I can sniff on it :-)

  • mercime
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Do you think I can dump all the images in the /content/blogs.dir/1/files/2009/ and then insert the images like wp automatic did?

    Well you can FTP upload the images to that folder, then use absolute URLs in your posts, assuming you know all the names of the images per post. who is wp automatic?

    I even don't think I need the MU version of Wordpress

    I agree with you. I say fix your importing from nucleus to a single WP install to include all your images and other media. No rush to WPMU your site. Besides in very near future, codebases of WPMU and WP will be merging and it would help that all your media, posts, comments, etc. are in sync.

  • Elkana
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Okay! I did think that you would give me that advice so I've been thinking about it :) I'm just going to use the normal version of WP. That's no big deal importing, so that would be fine for me. Then I'll see if the images come with it to. Thanks for your help, I'll "keep in touch" :)

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