Hey all - I am hip deep in the middle of trying to restore a Wordpress blog that I'd had up on a friends server forever ago. I finally decided it'd be a shame to lose all those years of content (about 10 actually!), and have begun the work of restoring the site. It's already up and running, and as I have time I am going back and trying to re-inject content courtesy of The Wayback Machine (love that site!).
The problem that I am encountering is that when I go to re-inject images from the history of folders I have (wp-content/uploads/2007/1/samplefile.jpg), the Wordpress media dashboard does not seem to be detecting the content I had gone in and uploaded back from a backup I had made via FTP. Instead, it's only showing me media folders from 2017. It seems like there would be a plugin or something that would restore or resync the folder structure to the dashboard in Wordpress but I am not finding anything in Wordpress codex.
In essence, it seems that there is a disconnect between the Wordpress dashboard and the file manager for my image libraries...any ideas on how to reconnect or resync them?
As an aside, I'd rather not go the route of a paid plugin if at all possible....already probably overspent to have Bluehost do an import for me to transfer everything over - will be calling their Wordpress support team at 9am Mountain time when they open here later. Just thought I'd throw it out there here in case any gurus might have a good idea. Tks in advance!
The problem that I am encountering is that when I go to re-inject images from the history of folders I have (wp-content/uploads/2007/1/samplefile.jpg), the Wordpress media dashboard does not seem to be detecting the content I had gone in and uploaded back from a backup I had made via FTP. Instead, it's only showing me media folders from 2017. It seems like there would be a plugin or something that would restore or resync the folder structure to the dashboard in Wordpress but I am not finding anything in Wordpress codex.
In essence, it seems that there is a disconnect between the Wordpress dashboard and the file manager for my image libraries...any ideas on how to reconnect or resync them?
As an aside, I'd rather not go the route of a paid plugin if at all possible....already probably overspent to have Bluehost do an import for me to transfer everything over - will be calling their Wordpress support team at 9am Mountain time when they open here later. Just thought I'd throw it out there here in case any gurus might have a good idea. Tks in advance!